Harvard Kennedy School

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Harvard Kennedy School

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HKS Mission and Commitment

• Harvard Kennedy School Mission
• To train enlightened public leaders and generate
  the ideas that provide answers to the worlds
  most challenging public problems. Our
  commitment
• To making a positive impact in the world.

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About HKS

• Offers five masters degree and four PhD
  programs, and four executive education course
  programs
• Comprises 45 international students from 90
  countries in masters and doctoral degree
  programs
• Enrolls 3,000 individuals in 34 executive
  education courses in four portfolio areas each
  year.
• Estimates 30,000 degreed and senior executive
  Alumni representing 170 countries
• Celebrates prominent alumni such as UN Secretary
  General Ban Ki-Moon, World Bank President Robert
  Zellick, Mexico President Felipe Calderon,
  Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong, Liberia President
  Ellen Johnson, Hong Kong Chief Executive Sir
  Donald Tsang

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About HKS Degree Programs

• Provide students with the necessary skills in
  analysis, management, and advocacy and with an
  ability to call on these skills under
  ever-changing circumstances.
• Master in Public Policy (MPP)
• Master in Public Policy/Urban Planning (MPP/UP)
• Master in Public Administration (MPA2)
• Master in Public Administration/International
  Development (MPA/ID)
• Mid-Career Master in Public Administration
  (MC/MPA)
• Harvard Kennedy School offers both joint and
  concurrent degrees with selected professional
  schools at Harvard University.

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About HKS PhD Programs Research Centers

• PhD Programs
• PhD in Public Policy
• PhD in Political Economy and Government
• PhD in Health Policy
• PhD in Social Policy
• Research Engines
• Fifteen research centers
• Over sixty research programs
• Applicants to the latter three programs must
  apply through Harvard Universitys Graduate
  School of Arts Sciences.

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About HKS - Executive Education

• Give global executives from the public, private
  and non profit sectors practical skills as well
  as a deeper analytical understanding of policy
  and management challenges.
• Performance Measurement for Effective Management
  of Nonprofit Organizations
• Governance as Leadership Reframing the Work of
  Nonprofit Boards
• Leaders in Development Managing Change in a
  Dynamic World
• Expanding Non-Governmental Organization Impacts

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Purposes of Alumni Relations Office

• Service
• Connectivity
• Networking
• Promotion of School
• Fund Raising

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HKS Alumni Relations Activities

• Database
• Career Development (Mentors/Advisors)
• Creation of Regional Associations
• Continuous Outreach
• HKS magazine
• Website Ask What You Can Do
• Virtual Connections (Emails)
• Alumni Intellectual Engagements Conference
  Call with
• Professors, Forum Events and Fall Weekend
• Alumni Reunion and Achievements Awards (Spring)
  
• Fund Raising

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HKS Alumni Relationships
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HKS Alumni Association Board of Directors

• International representative body of 30,000 HKS
  Alumni led
• by 20 elected alumni leaders
• Purposes of the Board
• Communicate the interests and concerns of HKS
  alumni
• worldwide to the Dean, faculty, and students
• Propose and support programs to enhance the
  well-being of
• HKS alumni
• Encourage communication of the School's
  activities, priorities,
• and educational resources to alumni
• Promote valuable networking among alumni
• Act as a resource to HKS Alumni Associations
  worldwide

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Purpose of Alumni Associations

• Networking
• Make a Difference
• Camaraderie
• Intellectual Growth
• Scholarship Funds
• Recognition of Achievements
• Morale Support

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Starting an Alumni Association

• Requires a Champion and Core Group
• Develop Vision and Mission Statements
• Acquire the Data Base
• Identify Successful Alumni
• Raise Funds
• Design Working Committees
• Connect with School
• Create Communications website, emails
  groups,
• public relations, media, etc.

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Philippine HKS Alumni Foundation

• Membership degree, executive education, other
  
• Harvard graduates in government (no fees)
• Diversity of members nationals and
  foreigners public,
• private and donor community
• Officers and Board Members elected every two
  years
• Council of Advisors highest appointed and
  elected
• officials and CEOs
• SEC registered Foundation Fundraising
• Working Committees - Events, Fundraising,
• Communications

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Philippine HKS Alumni Activities

• Monthly Board of Directors Meeting
• Recognition of Alumni Achievements
  (Appointments,
• elections, deans, books published etc)
• How to Survive at HKS for new students
• Visit Harvard once a year - meet with students
  and HKS
• Dean, faculty and staff
• Celebrate and learn from returning new alumni
• Shaping the Debate events as convener
• Dinners with visiting professors
• Fundraising through Presidential Debate and
  golf
• tournaments for scholarships and expenses
• Creating and updating website

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Alumni Association Challenges

• Longevity of Champion (s)
• Sustainability of alumni interests
• Creativity for intellectual and social growth
• Availability of Operating Funds
• Attracting New and Older Graduates
• What do they get in return?
• Or What can they give back?

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