Stories

Alumni and friends in the San Francisco, California area joined the Harvard University Planned Giving team for a Family, Finance, and Philanthropy dinner.

Alumni and friends in the Dana Point, California area joined the Harvard University Planned Giving team for a Family, Finance, and Philanthropy dinner.

Combat rescue officer Peter Dyrud MPP ’08, PhD ’18 came to GSAS to analyze the factors behind international kidnappings.

Harvard changed Hollie Haynes’s life—now she wants to help do the same for the next generation of College students.

David Eun ’89, JD ’93 gives because SEAS trains its students to bridge the divide between the sciences and liberal arts.

Screenwriter Jonathan Aibel ’91 and his wife, Sarah, have made a gift to the Creative Writing Program to help Harvard students share their unique stories.

Alberto Ades wants students to have access to the same exceptional education and training that he did at GSAS.

This Harvard couple gives annually because GSAS changed their careers and their lives.

Democracy Works cofounders Seth Flaxman MPP '11 and Kathryn Peters MPP '11 are using technology to make it easier for Americans to vote.

Creating Meaning and Community Through the Arts: April Bang MPP ’06, Kelley Purcell AB ’02 and Claude Cormier MDes ’94 share their stories of artistic expression and social impact.

Learn what boards are looking for, how boards go about recruiting new directors, and how to effectively position yourself for board opportunities.

Cecily Wardell AB '03, Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis AB '70, PhD '80, and Kathleen Moreno Dorkin AB '70, BF '81, EdM '89 have drawn on what they learned at Harvard to create and grow the nature-based Birches School in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Daniel W. Steinbrook '11 uses computer science in pursuit of truth.

Giving to Harvard is personal for Jeff Scruggs ’85, MBA ’91 and his wife, Robbin E. Mitchell MBA ’92.

For Howard Slyter ’67, planned gifts are another way to help make Harvard accessible for the next generation of students.

Nick Stoller ‘98 and Francesca Delbanco ’95 are the creative team behind a new Netflix comedy.

Alexander Otto ’90, MBA ’94 never forgot the welcome he received as an undergraduate at Harvard. And he wants to help future generations of students thrive as he did.

Regina Ryan MPA '04, co-president of Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, describes how this Shared Interest Group is building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem that brings alumni together as advisors, collaborators, and friends.

Accomplished painter Nancy Rae Parker believes in advocating for disadvantaged students and demonstrates it through an eponymous undergraduate scholarship fund.

Soozin White on why she chose to support Harvard for its preeminence in glaucoma research: "In my opinion, there is really no contest."