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...skip the shopping and donate to a local humane society. Each set up boxes in her workplace to collect food, toys and blankets for needy animals. Instead of their usual gift-exchange party, the friends piled $2,000 worth of donations into several cars and distributed them at the shelter. "The animals were going nuts," Wisdom recalls. "We never anticipated how emotional it would be. It ended up being the most rewarding holiday experience we've ever had." This year they're looking forward to taking canned goods to the North Texas Food Bank. "Instead of seeing Christmas as just...
...shown by the Phillips Brooks House Directory, there are a limitless number of public service programs in which students engage. Harvard students act as older siblings to local teens, spend time with kids affected by cerebral palsy, hold summer camps for local kids, and help run a local homeless shelter. Investments of these sorts, while perhaps not directly reflected in the city’s GDP, cannot be overlooked as forms of indispensable contributions to the community...
...Have we been giving homelessness in our city the attention it deserves? Speaking to Mary Power, Harvard’s Senior Director of Community Relations, I was inclined to believe that Harvard isn’t the villain either. From the well-oiled, entirely student-run Harvard Square Homeless Shelter to staff and faculty contributions to local homeless charities, the University is definitely not turning a blind eye to the homeless community. Especially noteworthy is the 20/20/2000 program, which appropriated $20 million in interest-free loans to Cambridge and Boston for affordable housing projects...
Unlike Moore, Nichols—a physics and astrophysics concentrator from Leverett House—has served as a council representative for five semesters. He co-founded the Harvard Beer Society, is a member of the Mission Hill Mentoring Program and volunteers weekly at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter...
...middle of last week’s hectic campaign schedule, Nichols managed to pull a 12-hour night shift at the shelter...