Here are some links to online articles about PBHA that we thought you might find of interest.

2006

PBHA volunteers play bingo with their elders.  Harvard University Gazette, December 14, 2006.

Marcia Gray, 67, lives at Vernon Hall, a nursing home on Dana Street, five minutes by foot from Harvard Yard. She has been there two years. In her room, Gray said, she has a television with no picture, and a radio with no lights, "but it still gives good music."

Chimaobi O. Amutah.  Harvard Crimson, December 13, 2006.

Chimaobi O. Amutah '07 says that he came to Cambridge with the attitude, "Harvard isn't going to change me." Wearing bandannas and jerseys, he would exit Thayer and look up and down the yard like he was in "the 'hood." Now, Amutah sports simpler garb as he heads to class or Boston as part of the Mission Hill After School Program, which he helps coordinate.

Community Gifts helps scores of PBHA programs.  Harvard Gazette, November 30, 2006.

For more than 100 years, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard's student-run, nonprofit public service organization, has made a meaningful impact on the people it serves in the Boston and Cambridge area.

PBHA gives out awards at celebration.  Harvard University Gazette, May 11, 2006.

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) held its fifth annual Public Service Celebration this past Monday (May 8) in Lowell House dining hall. Two hundred students deeply committed and involved in public service activities attended the event, along with faculty, staff, and PBHA supporters.

PBHA Honors Service Leaders .  Harvard Crimson, May 10, 2006.

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) honored students who had devoted their undergraduate careers to public service Monday night - and it distributed fellowships that will allow some seniors to continue their work full-time after graduation.

Meet My Wife, Katrina.  Harvard Crimson, April 12, 2006.

They play in a lonely driveway under a forlorn trumpet and two drums, this silent band. At a yellowed keyboard markered with "Katrina Band of New Orleans," a gorilla plays forever, an empty bottle of Bacardi in his lap. Next to the pianist, a monster hunches over a guitar, ignoring the empty wine bottle nearby.

After Service, They Bring New Orleans Back Home.  Harvard Crimson, April 7, 2006.

At the end of the week, they could say this: they had helped to lay the foundations of five homes here in the Ninth Ward. To the 10 students from Mather who worked during spring break at the construction site, that didn’t seem quite enough.

A Shot of Bourbon Amid a Sea of Tears.  Harvard Crimson, April 6, 2006.

"Booty, booty, booty," the DJ played at a club here in the famous French Quarter, a neighborhood still rollicking in a city now reeling.

Students Affected By Relief.  Harvard Crimson, April 5, 2006.

Her checkbook. Her new dinette set. Her jewelry box with the golden pendant. Helen L. Smith, 70, watched her life, which she had left behind seven months ago, now leave her home.

Volunteers Give Hope To Gulf.  Harvard Crimson, April 3, 2006.

Teams of Harvard students are flocking down to the Gulf Coast this spring break in University-wide efforts to rebuild communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Harvard Students Go Marching In to New Orleans.  Harvard Crimson, March 24, 2006.

Two by two, they carried the heavy planks across the parking lot in the harsh Southern sun, the backs of their arms and necks burning. The hours passed slowly.

60 Students Team-Up for Run for the Harvard College Marathon Challenge.  Harvard Crimson, March 6, 2006.

The Boston Marathon may be more than a month away, but sixty members of the Harvard community are already racing to gather pledges for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Project HEALTH.

PBHA Hosts Forum On ‘Social Tourism’.  Harvard Crimson, February 21, 2006.

Over 30 undergraduates gathered in the parlor room of Phillips Brook House Association (PBHA) to debate the purpose of traveling to perform social service. The fifth event this year in "The Big Question" series addressed the topic "Social Justice Tourism? What do service trips mean for us and for the places we go?"

Katrina Relief Workers Reminisce.  Harvard Crimson, February 16, 2006.

Students who participated in an intersession trip to help the post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction effort in the Gulf Coast joined community leaders from the sites they served in a crowded Lowell House dining hall last night to share photos and recount stories from the frontline.

Cambridge loves Moss Point.  Cambridge Chronicle, February 9, 2006.

The devastated Gulf Coast town of Moss Point, Miss., received some in-person TLC from Cantabrigians.

New Orleans, Mississippi towns welcome help.  Harvard University Gazette, February 9, 2006.

When the busload of Harvard undergraduates arrived at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in New Orleans, one of the city's first schools to reopen after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the back yard was a debris-clogged mess.

Contractors from Oletha, Kan., are giving Harvard University students a crash course in installing drywall and basic electrical work as part of disaster relief efforts in Moss Point.

2005

COOP Matches Donated Rebates.  The Harvard Crimson, December 16, 2005.

While shoppers with COOP membership numbers look forward to receiving rebate checks each year, a new COOP program now offers members the chance to donate their rebates to aid hurricane relief on the Gulf Coast.

The cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s umbrella organization for public service, elected Alicia Rodriguez ’07 as its next president at a meeting last night in the PBHA Parlor Room.

Ranging from distance-running veterans to first-time competitors, 50 Harvard students and staff members will lace their shoes for the Boston Marathon in April - part of a new initiative to raise funds for social-service organizations on campus.

Each summer, more than 850 economically disadvantaged children from Boston and Cambridge have a fun, safe, enriching experience at the 12 summer camps run by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA).

Members of Harvard's Class of 1955 have raised over $1.65 million for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) as part of the 50th reunion gift this year, in order to endow the Executive Director’s position.

2004

First Med School. Then The World.  The Harvard Crimson, December 16, 2004.

Working in a hospital in Winneba, Ghana, last summer, Lara C. Bishay ’05 didn’t expect anyone from Harvard to come visit - until her acquaintance Stella A. Safo ’05 arrived in Winneba.

You know who they are.

Hoping to strengthen ties with local community service programs, Shaw Natsui ’05-’06 won an uncontested race for the presidency of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) last night.

Instead of going to a hotly contested neighbor state, about 15 volunteers from the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) made the shorter trek to nearby Dorchester yesterday to monitor polls and encourage local voting.

Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 approved changes last week which will effectively transfer power from a single Phillips Brooks House (PBH) administrator to the non-student directors of the two public service groups which constitute it

To meet Phyllis Fallon - to crunch budget numbers or process invoices with her - is to share her love of jazz, blues, and swing.

Supporters of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) had the opportunity to bid on Red Sox-Yankees game tickets and a sightseeing trip with singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor at an auction held last night for the Summer Urban Program (SUP).

The Lowell House community - already the second largest on campus - is about to become 22 units bigger.

2003

Big Sky Scribe.  The Harvard Crimson, December 11, 2003.

When, at 14, her high school lost accreditation, Mary R. Ziegler left her hometown in Montana for Andover. Once there, she says, she quickly befriended a girl from Indonesia. The only hitch: coming from Montana, Ziegler had no idea where Indonesia was.

As she reflects on her years at Harvard, the moments that will be foremost on senior Alethea Murray's mind are those spent helping the homeless.

Pledging to increase student participation in service programs and improve relationships with area communities, Kristin M. Garcia ’05 was elected President of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Wednesday night.

When Dan Thanh T. Nguyen ’06 takes the T home to her old neighborhood in Dorchester twice a week, she’s not lugging her laundry or seeking home-cooked refuge from the dining hall. Instead, she brings lesson plans and games to share with her students who meet at the Grover Cleveland Middle School, just as 12 years ago a Boston Youth Refugee Enrichment (BRYE) volunteer did for her.

Watch out Lance Armstrong - 50 cyclists will hit the streets of Cambridge this week on wheels purchased Saturday at the annual Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Bike Auction.

The brightly colored balloons bobbing in the Yard did the trick this year. The class of 2007 made its way in impressive numbers to Phillips Brooks House for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) open house, eager to save the world, one afterschool program at a time.

It was a busy, fun, and educational summer for area kids (and grown-ups) participating in one of the many Harvard programs. Whether it was tennis camps for Boston and Cambridge youth, a picnic in Harvard Yard for Cambridge seniors, concerts on the Charles, or summer school for Cambridge high schoolers, summer learning and fun was a focus in the neighborhoods surrounding campus

Preparing for their positions as co-directors of a Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) summer day camp, Kristin Garcia '05 and Chris Vena '05 had a jam-packed semester this past spring. Into their Harvard studies they shoehorned the sorts of real-world duties that would make their camp - the Franklin I-O Summer Program in Dorchester - a success.

The 12 summer camps run by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) are struggling this year to accommodate the underprivileged children of Cambridge and Boston in the face of a souring economy and massive social service cuts in state and city budgets, the group’s leaders said.

Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s largest public service organization, announced the appointment of Gene A. Corbin as its new executive director Wednesday."

Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), the student-led public service agency at the University, has named Gene Corbin as its next executive director, PBHA President Rini Fonseca-Sabune '04 announced yesterday (May 14).

Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers presided over the 20th anniversary of The Stride Rite Community Service Program Thursday evening (May 8), presenting three seniors with $25,000 postgraduate fellowships to fund yearlong service projects that will ideally launch lifetime dedication to public service.

There's a well-worn refrain among Harvard's most dedicated student volunteers and its legions of alumni who pursue careers as public service leaders: "Phillips Brooks House Association was the best course I took at Harvard."

More than half of the vans currently used to shuttle students throughout the Boston-area by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) will be forced to carry fewer passengers and stay off the highways due to safety modifications instituted in early January.

When Emily Famutimi '03 founded Keylatch Mentor for adolescents who had aged out of the South End's Keylatch Afterschool Program that she directed, she took money from her own pocket, buying supplies as well as T tokens and movie tickets for the kids' activities with their mentors.

2002

Lindsay Hyde '04 nurtures Strong Women, Strong Girls.  Harvard University Gazette, December 9, 2002.

Lindsay Hyde '04 knows first-hand the impact of a strong female role model. She credits her impressive resume - which includes launching and developing curricula for not one but two public service organizations before she graduated from high school - to her mother.

Enrichment program develops 'a sense of pride and love' in local youth.  Harvard University Gazette, September 19, 2002.

With a Native American population of only 6,000, the Boston area can be an isolating place for kids of Native American heritage.

Passing on a passion: PBHA camp introduces Cambridge youth to public service .  Harvard University Gazette, July 18, 2002.

Swimming. Crafts. Field trips. Public service. For the 150 campers in the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (CYEP) of Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Fridays introduce a new element to the usual summer camp fare: helping.

Laura Clancy can't tell you how she fills her pre-summer days. The best way she has to describe it is "a blur of so many random things." But what else can you expect from someone who is gearing up (as she does every spring) for a seven-week summer program for 700 urban children at 12 sites across Boston and Cambridge?

The Stride Rite Community Service Program hosted its 14th annual awards reception on Tuesday (May 7) in appreciation of undergraduates who are dedicated to community service. At this year's reception - "Public Service: A Lifetime Commitment" - which included a public service panel and awards ceremony, four postgraduate fellowships and 10 senior recognition awards were given.

Harvard College has selected Laura E. Clancy '02-'03 as the winner of the 2002 Harvard College Women's Leadership Award for her exceptional leadership skills.

In March, 23 volunteers from Harvard traveled to rural North Carolina to rebuild the Antioch United Holy Church, destroyed by arson. Their work transformed the students as well as the church. Gazette photographer Justin Ide and writer Beth Potier joined them to document this 'Alternative Spring Break' experience."

2001

Harvard Living Wage Campaign in the Media, 1999 - 2001.

Wages forum held at ARCO.  Harvard University Gazette, October 25, 2001.

About 150 people turned out for the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies’ open forum at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum Monday (Oct. 22).

Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) made crime pay last week, as its annual bike auction turned 30 stolen and abandoned bikes into much-needed cash for its dozens of charity and human service programs.

Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Ben and Jerry’s raised $2,052 yesterday for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund by collecting donations in front of the Science Center.

They met dinosaurs and tigers, marched in a parade, sailed a boat, and traveled to an island.

PBHA Launches Capital Campaign.  The Harvard Crimson, April 9, 2001.

President Neil L. Rudenstine, the man with the Midas touch, shepherded a team of seasoned fundraisers to the Harvard Club in Manhattan last Thursday to make presentations to an intimate group of alumni who are politely referred to as 'large potential' donors.

Following in Ralph Nader's footsteps may be a dubious path to take these days, but that doesn't seem to bother Nick Beilenson '58. He is at the helm of the newly founded alumni association of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), which is modeled after a program Nader helped start with Princeton alumni called Project 55.

2000

Matching funds free volunteers.  Harvard University Gazette, November 16, 2000.

Your dollars may count twice for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). An anonymous donor is promising to match every dollar up to $250,000 contributed by faculty, staff, and students to PBHA's Centennial Endowment Campaign.

The Chinatown Computing program of the Chinatown Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) will celebrate the opening of its new community computer lab on Nov. 29.

The four boys clustered around the drum pounded it rhythmically - almost - filling the small gymnasium with sound and sending tobacco bits ritually sprinkled on the drum's skin bouncing into the air.

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard's largest public service organization, hosted its first-ever alumni reunion this weekend, celebrating 100 years of student-led community initiatives.

This isn’t your ordinary student concert. Not that any of Harvard’s talented undergraduate musicians can be called ordinary, but even in such brilliant company the star of this event shines with a unique luster.

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) has tapped former Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 to lead a three-year, $7.2 million capital campaign, PBHA officials announced Friday.

Its elegant meeting rooms have seen the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lani Guinier, and ACLU founder Roger Baldwin. Its programs have served as models for the Peace Corps and the National Service Corps.

The Phillips Brooks House Association Inc. (PBHA), the oldest and largest volunteer public service organization at Harvard College, is rededicating its home, the historic Phillips Brooks House, on the centennial of its original dedication, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2000.

On Jan. 23, 1900, at 4 p.m., hundreds of donors gathered in the northwest corner of Harvard Yard to dedicate the new Phillips Brooks House (PBH) to the ideals of "piety, charity and hospitality."