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While other students find community in final clubs, sororities, or even study groups, Katherine E. Varney ’10 and her roommates became engrossed in public service, particularly Mission Hill.
The name recognition of Mission Hill helps draw in a consistent and sufficient number of volunteers each year, overcoming the attrition problems facing many other volunteer organizations. But the rapid transitions of volunteers and leadership runs the risk of blurring the institutional history of the program.
MHASP helps maintain the size of its program through collaboration with other established public service programs at Harvard, but also through extensive recruitment of volunteers outside of Harvard.
Out of 180 MHASP volunteers, 75 come from other universities in the Boston area, such as Boston University and Northeastern.
The program has also reached out to other PBHA-affiliated programs to make sure its kids do not lose all mentoring opportunities either over the summer or when they outgrow the program.