Harvard Kennedy School

2. Harvard Kennedy School Ask what you can do

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

4. About HKS • Offers five masters degree and four PhD programs, and four executive education course programs • Comprises 45% international students from 90 countries in master’s 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

5. 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.

6. 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 University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

7. 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

8. Purposes of Alumni Relations Office • Service • Connectivity • Networking • Promotion of School • Fund Raising

9. 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

10. HKS Alumni Relationships

11. 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

12. Purpose of Alumni Associations • Networking • Make a Difference • Camaraderie • Intellectual Growth • Scholarship Funds • Recognition of Achievements • Morale Support

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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?

17. Harvard Kennedy School Ask what you can do