History - Harvard in Broadmoor

Broadmoor and Harvard have had a strong partnership since March of 2006, when a team of students from the Kennedy School and the Business School came to the neighborhood to support its early planning efforts. For the past three summers, students from the Kennedy School, the Graduate School of Design, the Ed School and the College have worked as interns in the neighborhood.

Kennedy School & Design School Students:

Carolyn Wood, Assistant Academic Dean at the Harvard Kennedy School, oversees the selection of three HKS and HDS students total to work in Broadmoor each summer.  To learn more, contact Dean Wood directly.


Divinity School Students:

Annunciation Mission (www.annunciationmission.org), is a new, urban, ministry, started by the Free Church of the Annunciation, an Episcopal church.  Annunciation Mission seeks a Christian intern during the summer of 2009 to serve as a pastoral counselor to the youth groups who travel to New Orleans and provide volunteer work on the homes in Broadmoor.  For more information, click here. 


Harvard College Students:

The Alternative Spring Break program at the Phillips Brooks House Association is forming a long-term partnership with Broadmoor.  This year, 30 undergraduates are volunteering in Broadmoor over intercession and spring break of 2009!  Selection for these trips has closed, but stay tuned for information about more trips next school year.  

Harvard College students are also encouraged to apply directly for Broadmoor summer internships and year-long fellowships.  If you're interested in working in New Orleans, either for a summer or for a year, send Tom Wooten ('08) an email! Scroll down for information on funding sources at Harvard.

Harvard undergrads can also take classes with Bard's Urban Studies in New Orleans Program and choose Broadmoor as an internship site.

Harvard Contact

Harvard College graduate Tom Wooten ('08) was a summer intern in Broadmoor (2007) and is was a year-long fellow in Broadmoor from 2008-2009.  Alice Lee ('09) is a current fellow serving at Broadmoor.  If you’re interested in coming to work in Broadmoor, contact Alice.

Alice's email address: alice.n.lee@gmail.com

Funding Your Internship

Below are two websites run by OCS that together are a good starting place from which to look for grants. Also below are some of the grants that you could apply for.

http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/fellowships/fellowships-table.htm

http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/fellowships/grant-details.htm


Grants that fund internships or public service projects:

Institute of Politics Director's Internships
Institute of Politics Summer Stipends for Public Service Internships
Harmon Fellowships
Lamont Public Service Fellowships
Lee Family Public Service Fund Fellowships
Liman Public Interest Law Fellowships
Pforzheimer Foundation Public Service Fellowships
Public Service Work-Study Grants
Richardson Fellowships in Public Service
Ritland Memorial Fund Grant
Steiner Community Service Fund Grants
UCHRS Hauser Internships


Grants that fund summer research / thesis research:

CAPS Undergraduate Research Seed Grants
CAPS Undergraduate Thesis Research Grants
Center for the Environment Undergraduate Summer Research Fund
UCHRS Undergraduate Research Awards
Dean's Summer Research Awards
Harvard College Research Program Grants
James D. Woods Memorial Fellowship in Social Studies
Lowe Career Decision Fund Loans
Office for the Arts Project Grants
Susan C. Eaton Research Fund in Organizing, Leadership and Social Change
UCHRS Undergraduate Research Awards


For Graduating Seniors:

Lamont Public Service Fellowships
Lee Family Public Service Fund Fellowships
Institute of Politics Director's Internships
CPIC Fellowships (we have to convince them to include New Orleans as a host city first. :-P)
Institute of Politics Summer Stipends for Public Service Internships

Youth Development Director Fellowship!

Below is the language from an open email to graduating seniors with an interest in youth development.

Attention graduating seniors: the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans seeks an individual to develop a sustainable, year-round enrichment and leadership program for neighborhood youth. If you have experience with youth programming at Harvard and you're interested in continuing your involvement with youth next year, this is not an opportunity to miss.

Broadmoor is a diverse and well-organized neighborhood of 7,000 residents that flooded badly after Hurricane Katrina. In the storm's wake, Broadmoor residents came together to plan for their neighborhood's recovery and put that plan into action. To date, they have founded a community development corporation, opened a charter school, instituted case management services for the neighborhood's most disadvantaged residents, and helped more than 80% of Broadmoor families return to the city and rebuild their homes. As part of Broadmoor's commitment to build back better than before, residents are now striving to increase opportunities for the children who are returning to the neighborhood.

Broadmoor's Youth Programming Developer will be responsible for building a neighborhood youth program from scratch. This individual will be responsible for developing the program's curriculum, pursuing funding sources, and forging partnerships with New Orleans public schools, residents' associations, universities and nonprofits to make the program a success. Applicants are required to have significant prior experience working for youth programs at Harvard, as building a new youth program requires working knowledge of how other successful programs function. The youth programming developer will begin work in mid- to late-summer of 2009, and will work through the summer of 2010 to put a program into action.

The Youth Programming Developer will be a true entrepreneur, but will also be well supported. She or he will work out of the Broadmoor neighborhood offices, and will be overseen by the president of the Broadmoor residents' association and the executive director of the neighborhood's community development corporation. She or he will also work closely with the principal and staff of the Andrew H. Wilson Charter School, the 400 student grade and middle school founded by Broadmoor residents in Katrina's wake. Additionally, she or he will be able to build on a groundwork of youth programming already in place; during the summer of 2008, Bard College students partnered with the YMCA to run a successful camp for neighborhood youth, and a Kennedy School student undertook a study of youth programming that reviewed national best practices and used them to make recommendations for youth programming development in Broadmoor.

The Broadmoor neighborhood does not have the internal funding to support a Youth Programming Developer, so if you are interested in the position, you will be responsible for pursuing your own funding. Two Harvard funding sources, the Richardson Fellowship and the Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowship, are particularly promising. Deadlines are fast-approaching, so act now! Information about these fellowships is posted at the bottom of this email.

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Funding Information:

Eliot and Ann Richardson Fund Fellowships in Public Service: Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service provide outstanding students contemplating a career in public service with the opportunity to spend a year in the U.S. or abroad gaining concrete experience with, and understanding of, the sort of problem or issue that their contemplated public service would address. Applications Due: March 6, 2009.

More information available at: http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/fellowships/richardson.htm

The Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowship Program: Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowships are intended for Harvard seniors who were devoted to service as undergraduates, and who demonstrate a future lifetime commitment to service. The spirit of the award is to provide fellows with the opportunity to put their vision for social change into action.  Each fellow is awarded up to $25,000. The grant money is intended to support the fellow’s living expenses as they work on a public interest project full-time in the year following graduation. The money may not be used for project expenses, but fellows are encouraged to seek other project funding if applicable. Applications Due: March 13, 2009.

More information available at: http://pbha.org/stride-rite-postgraduate-fellowship-2009