The examples below illustrate some of the ways in which Harvard promotes engagement in local, national and global service activities, while introducing students to significant public service learning opportunities both within and outside of the classroom. 

  • Center for Public Leadership

    Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership is dedicated to excellence in leadership education and scholarship. Through teaching and research, the center prepares this generation with the insights and practical skills necessary to address the world's most pressing problems.

  • Social Innovation and Change Initiative

    The Social Innovation and Change Initiative (SICI), launched at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2016, develops research, pedagogical content, and educational programs that help students, citizens, and organizations around the world navigate the challenges of initiating and implementing social change. Through these core activities, SICI aims to illuminate the multiple paths social innovators can take to advance social progress across sectors.

  • Harvard Law School Project on Disability

    HPOD is committed to enabling civil society—and especially persons with disabilities and their representative organizations—to undertake informed human rights advocacy.

  • Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows

    The Leadership Fellows program offers nonprofit and public sector organizations the opportunity to leverage the experience, energy, and analytical skills of MBAs for one year. Fellows apply their expertise to roles for which they produce immediate results and build long-term capacity within the organization.

  • Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship

    The Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship provides the infrastructure to link public-service activities directly to the curriculum and expand the options for undergraduate courses with public-service components.

  • Removing Barriers to Public Service

    A generous grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to boosts the College's efforts to develop the next generation of public service leaders by supporting public service opportunities for undergraduates, specifically those from low-income backgrounds who can be deterred from participating in these experiences by financial constraints.

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