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Harvard and Stanford Universities maintain ODN's two regional offices, running the group's national and international internship programs and coordinating the various local chapters fundraising objectives. The Harvard regional office is located in the Van Serg building and is staffed by three full-time workers. National ODN meetings are generally held at Harvard, where four members of its Board of Directors reside--Professors Robert M. Coles, Donald F. Hornig and Timmer as well as Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner...
Harvard also has a local ODN chapter--the Harvard-Radcliffe International Development Forum (HRIDF)--with 15 student volunteers. Each of ODN's campus branches sponsor a grassroots community project in various parts of the developing world. The HRIDF is providing funds for a project in Bangladesh with money it raised in a dining hall fast...
...projects emphasize self-help, according to Chaudhuri. He says ODN's philosophy is to minimize the developers' role and encourage communities to carry out projects autonomously. The ODN chapter merely provides the money. "Hopefully they'll be able to reinvest the money and the project will become self-generating," says Lucy Perkins, a member of ODN's full-time staff...
...ODN's goals of fostering autonomy in Third World communities and creating awareness at home are both highly political issues. Yet ODN strives to maintain a politically neutral position...
...ODN is able to remain apolitical, members say, because it defines education as its main objective. "We don't want to become the U.N. or the Agency for International Development," says Shawn Shelton, a student from George Washington University and coordinator of Bike Aid '87. "We see our projects as partnerships between American colleges and communities abroad." This political neutrality and emphasis on education helps ODN appeal to students with a wide range of political views, Shelton says...