Dudley House Public Service Resources
The Coop Public Service Grants
Thanks to the generosity and community spirit of the Harvard-MIT Cooperative Society (The Coop), Harvard graduate students have a new opportunity to receive funding for their community service projects through Dudley House Public Service. The awards are expected to average $500-$1000 depending on the number of applications. APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 30 2009.
Dudley House Volunteer Placement Service
Do you want to volunteer but don't know where to start? Are you looking for other people with similar volunteer interests? Searching for an organization that matches with your particular interests? Want to broaden your horizons and explore something completely different? Please take advantage of the Dudley House Public Service Volunteer Placement Service! Our office can get you started with your public service interests by providing you with volunteer options that suit your needs and schedule, connecting you with other students who share your interests, and addressing your questions and concerns. Email us today!
The Harvard Public Service Network (PSN)
The PSN is the umbrella organization for all student-led public service on campus. They also produce the Annual Report on Public Service, the Public Service Directory, and Focus on Service, a database of classes related to public service offered through the University. In addition to organizing career conferences and workshops, PSN staff provide advice to students pursuing public service internships and careers. A number of grants and fellowships relating to public service are available through the PSN. To find out about resources and volunteer opportunities (including over 140 Harvard student-led programs), visit their website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~pbh/psn/. The PSN also maintains an online search engine for public service opportunities in the Cambridge and Boston area at www.volunteersolutions.org.
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA)
PBHA is Harvard's largest student-run public service organization, with programs ranging from afterschool activities to the only student-run homeless shelter in the country. Consisting of 82 programs, over 1,800 student volunteers, and serving close to 10,000 people in the Cambridge-Boston area, PBHA is an organization dedicated to social service and social action. For more information, visit their website at www.pbha.org/pbha/index.html or contact PBHA at pbha@hcs.harvard.edu or 617-495-5526.
Weekly Public Service Update
To learn about speaker on and off campus, volunteer opportunities, internship and job opportunities, funding availability for yourself and your public service organization, sign up to receive the Weekly Public Service Update. The Harvard Public Service Network sends this electronic newsletter every Tuesday evening. If you have public service oriented announcements for the Weekly Update, send submissions to pbh@fas.harvard.edu by Monday morning. To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@fas.harvard.edu, leaving the subject field blank and typing "subscribe publicservice-list" (without quotes) in the body of the message.
Resources for Health Advocacy
American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org
Resources for Fighting Hunger
Project Bread: http://www.projectbread.org/ (Massachusetts' leading anti-hunger organization. Project Bread supports 366 soup kitchens, food pantries, food banks, and food salvage programs in 119 communities in Massachusetts.)
Freedom from Hunger: http://www.freefromhunger.org/
(a nonprofit international development organization working in fifteen countries
across the globe that brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions
to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty)
Rood Research and Action Center: http://www.frac.org/ (a leading organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States)
Second Harvest: http://www.secondharvest.org/ (the largest domestic hunger relief organization in the United States. Through a network of over 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, they distribute food to 26 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children)
Resources for Fighting Poverty
Center for Law and Social Policy: http://www.clasp.org/ (a national, nonprofit organization that conducts research, policy analysis, technical assistance, and advocacy on issues related to economic security for low-income families with children)
Community Resources
City of Boston: http://www.ci.boston.ma.us
City of Cambridge: http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us
If you have suggestions for additional resources or questions, please contact Dudley Public Service Fellows.