Harvard's Global Day of Service: August 28, 2026

Harvard's Global Day of Service welcomes the Class of 2030 to a vibrant culture that promotes civic engagement across the greater Harvard community!  Please save the date for Friday, August 28th if you would like to volunteer!  All class years (including alums and grad students) are welcome to sign up as volunteers - click here to register!

The Global Day of Service is open to the greater Harvard community (all students, staff, faculty, and alums). Projects include helping local schools get ready for the upcoming school year; organizing supply drives; developing lesson plans, resource guides, and curriculum; conducting voter registration drives; organizing social media campaigns, and working on multimedia and technical projects. Site assignments will vary between locally based projects in the Greater Boston area and all access projects that will be hosted remotely for volunteers to join from around the world. All of the all access projects will have a designed campus hangout space for volunteers to connect with one another.  

Past partners include: Amnesty at Harvard, Atlas of Surveillance, Baldwin Community Center, Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, Boston Tax Help Coalition, Cambridge Public Schools, City of Miami Beach, Climate Cardinals, CovEducation (CovEd), Daily Table, Erevna, First Gen Scholars, Greater Ashmont Main Street, Harvard College Women's Center, Harvard GlobalWE, Harvard Square Business Association, Harvard Institute of Politics, Harvard UNICEF, Harvard Votes Challenge, iCivics, Lawyers Without Borders, Libraries Without Borders, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, National Alliance for the Advancement of Haitian Professionals (NAAHP),  New Voters, Partners in Health Engage, Phillips Brooks House Association, Porter Square Neighborhood Association (PSNA), Refresh Bolivia, StoryWish, Sustainable Food and Culture, Trek Relief, Tunefoolery, Tutoring Plus of Cambridge, Women’s Money Matters and several sites in collaboration with the City of Boston.

If you know any great nonprofit organizations that could use a team of 15+ volunteers, please contact Travis Lovett  (tlovett@fas.harvard.edu) to talk about potential project ideas.