Stories
Stories
Miguel, a junior at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, is eager to tell others about the civil rights tour he took last summer in the South. He and fellow students involved in the Bill of Rights Education Project will be able to share their stories thanks to funding from The Harbus Foundation, an HBS student organization that awards grants to small, community-based groups in the Boston area.
"The trip really got me thinking," Miguel told a group of grant recipients gathered in April for an awards ceremony. "It was an inspiration listening to stories about the civil rights movement." Miguel has written about his experience for Rising Times, a student newspaper and one of the eleven projects that The Harbus Foundation will fund this year. Other Foundation grant recipients in 2000 include an African studies curriculum at the Boston Arts Academy, an afterschool program at the Hyde Square Task Force, and in-class libraries for early readers at the Winship Elementary School in Brighton.
The Harbus Foundation was formed in 1997, using surplus funds generated from the HBS student newspaper, the Harbus, as a mechanism to give back to the local community and to give HBS students a vehicle for learning about constructive philanthropy. "The same spirit that makes Harvard Business School students successful business leaders is also alive in the Foundation," says Trustee Daniel F. Curran (MBA '00). "Students use their skills in analysis, operations, and marketing to select promising organizations from among grant proposals."
The Foundation consists of four student trustees, a faculty advisor, and fifteen HBS students who volunteer to read grant applications. It has now awarded close to $250,000 in grants to more than a dozen organizations. Typical grants are between $3,000 and $10,000, and all the projects funded are related to journalism, literacy, or education.
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