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Project HEALTH is dedicated to breaking the link between poverty and poor health by connecting low-income families with the resources they need to stay heathy. Based at Boston Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, our clinic-based help desks use the doctor’s office as a point of intervention to connect families with critical resources, such as food, housing, childcare, and health insurance. ADVOCATING SUCCESSFUL KIDS (ASK)

Adelante! aims to foster personal development of high school freshmen girls, motivating them to set high goals and helping them to build the academic skills and virtues of character that they will need to excel in their academic, social, and professional lives. Working with students from North Cambridge Catholic High School, participants of Adelante! form friendships with the girls through one-on-one tutoring. Academic growth extends beyond homework help through skill-building projects in reading, writing, and math.

In Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN), Harvard student volunteers assist local adults with some of the most vital skills needed in society and the workplace. PBHA’s PEN volunteers teach English as a Second Language and Computer Literacy Skills to adult learners at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the International Institute of Boston, and on the Harvard campus. PEN also runs a summer program with the same goals and objectives.

In the summer of 2004, Harvard welcomed its first cohort of 30 Crimson Scholars. Ninth-graders in public and parochial schools in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts were eligible to be nominated by their schools. All applicants were reviewed by an admissions committee including representatives from Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kennedy School of Government, Graduate School of Education, Summer School, Office of Career Services, Provost’s Office and Office of the President.

The Conant Professional Development Fund lets educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school districts take advantage of the wide array of professional development events, institutes, and offerings available at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Teachers and administrators looking to hone their skills might use the Principals' Center, Programs in Professional Education, or WIDE World. Since 1996, this fund has provided up to $16,000 each year for professional development funding for each of the two districts.

Initiated under the auspices of Design Initiative in Youth - Career Discovery Summer Program, Project Link is an intensive four-week program that seeks to immerse rising Boston area high school sophomores, juniors and seniors into the world of design. Students will be exposed to drawing, modeling and representation techniques associated with architectural design as well as to the alternate

A number of programs bring artists to Harvard for varying lengths of stay and highlight these artists in programs open to the community through the Office for the Arts.

The museum is a portal to the research and expertise of the University, not only through permanent and changing exhibits but also through public programs presented year-round. Public lectures feature Harvard faculty and other researchers and scientists presenting current research on a diverse set of topics, from paleontology and evolution to botany and earth sciences. Visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu for details and to sign up for the museum’s enewsletter. Most programs are free.

Project Success, a program operated by the HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, targets Boston and Cambridge high-school students who participate in mentored summer research internships at HMS and its affiliated institutions. The program is augmented by seminars and workshops given by faculty and administrators, site visits, and career guidance counseling. Students have the opportunity to return to the program for multiple years during high school and college.