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...Stride Rite recipient Michael J. Schultz ’02 became the founding director of a student service program at Stern Hebrew High School in Philadelphia. In a year he has created a network of volunteer programs for his students at nursing homes, schools, parks and local relief agencies. His aim is to teach high school students to adopt their own sense of public service, especially as they begin to negotiate their religious identities. “I was aware that the Jewish community and Jewish day schools were often insular,” he says. He recalls that...
Gail King ’01 was a recipient of a yearly grant from the Stride Rite Foundation, a sum of $25,000 that allowed her to work as a community outreach worker for the Youth Advocacy Project in Roxbury. In her first year after graduating from Harvard, she worked toward building a better-connected community for young people. The network of support depended on “partnering up”: schools with families, families with social workers and psychologists, Youth Advocacy counselors with delinquency lawyers—in short, every support institution with every other institution, all undertaking...
Like for many of his Stride Rite colleagues, Schultz’s fellowship ended up being his first year’s salary. “They [the Hebrew school] never would have been able to pay me to create the program last year,” he says. “The fellowship made all of it possible...
After the hands-on tutorial in public service, PBHA provides access to the second component in pre-professional preparation: money. “The Stride Rite does an amazing job of connecting people and passion and dreams and allowing people to really explore that,” says Katya Fels ’93, board member at the Stride Rite Foundation and herself a Stride Rite recipient. $25,000 may appear to be a hefty sum, but it’s given by people who have experienced public service first-hand. “The Stride Rite people are realistic...
Fels’s fellowship ten years ago enabled her to found On the Rise, a transitional women’s shelter in Boston, of which she is now the executive director. “For me the Stride Rite was as much an investment in me as it was in the project. It’s as much about someone’s history of public service at Harvard...