Global Day of Service 2025
The Global Day of Service has become an annual Harvard tradition, with approximately 1,000 members of the Harvard community participating each August.
The Day's kickoff introduced over 750 incoming first-year students to civic life at Harvard. Although most of the activites took place in or around the Harvard community, about 20% of the Global Day of Service projects operated remotely. Throughout the day, volunteers provided life-changing service work to a variety of organizations, furthering Harvard's mission of inspiring philanthropic engagement.
Ready To Make A Difference
Campus was full of green Global Day of Service shirts, with hundreds of students eager to lend a helping hand.
Collaborating For Good
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP) are core partners in Global Day of Service. A team of volunteers worked with PBHA's annual plant sale to support youth programming in the Greater Boston Area. Through the IOP, volunteers worked with the Harvard Votes Challenge to encourage their peers and neighbors to register to vote.
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Incoming students loved sprucing up their dorm rooms with the PBHA plant sale.
Volunteers worked with Harvard Votes Challenge to encourage their peers and neighbors to register to vote.
Students worked with community partners to develop digital resources and social media campaigns with leading non-profit organizations around the world.
Purpose-Filled Work
Students were able to volunteer for various organizations, including Community Servings, which provides meals to individuals and families experiencing nutrition insecurity, Y2Y Network, a student-led shelter in Harvard Square that helps young adults experiencing homelessness, and much more.
Volunteers worked to clean up space at Y2Y Network.
Students prepared supply kits for PBHA after-school programs.
An afternoon rain storm didn't stop this team from heading out to prepare meals with Community Servings.
