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Harvard College Bone Marrow Registration Drive

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Harvard Law Community,

Thank you to everyone who came out in support of the bone marrow registration drives at the law school last week.  Over the course of two days, we registered almost 250 donors.  I wanted to let you all know that this coming week we will also be hosting two drives at Harvard’s undergraduate campus.  The information is below:

Dates: Monday, Feb. 21st, and Wednesday, Feb. 23rd

Times: 11AM-2PM

Location: Adams House Lower Common Room (Adams House is located at 26 Plympton Street, between Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn.  The Lower Common Room is right inside C-Entryway, right before the dining hall).

Here’s a link to the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152377761485497

If you weren’t able to register last week, please come out on Monday or Wednesday.  Also, we are still in need of volunteers, so if you have a free hour or more on either of those days we could use the help!  Any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me (Charlie – Henry’s cousin) or Kevin (Henry’s brother).

Thanks for your support,

Charlie Hernandez

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Every year more than 10,000 children and adults who are suffering from cancer would benefit from a bone marrow transplant from a non-family member. Many of these patients never find a donor and lose their battle with this dreadful disease.

Henry Hernandez is a student at Harvard Law School and an ’08 graduate of Harvard College. He is a snowboard instructor and enjoys competing in marathons. Henry was recently diagnosed with Leukemia and may be in need of a marrow transplant, for which a matching donor will be needed. While Henry’s match will most likely be someone from a Hispanic ancestry, donors from all racial backgrounds are needed.  Minority groups especially are underrepresented in the National Bone Marrow Registry.

It is very easy to join the bone marrow registry — it takes just a few minutes to give your DNA by swabbing the inside of your cheek. You will need to be between the ages of 18-60 and meet several health guidelines. If you are someone’s miracle and a match, being a stem cell donor is also easy; it’s a very similar process to giving blood. The donor merely provides blood from which a machine extracts the stem cells that are provided to the patient to grow new marrow. There is no actual extraction of bone marrow from the donor.

Please join us in the search for a match for Henry and many others battling cancer today.  If you cannot attend, you can sign up online at: http://join.marrow.org/hope4henry A DNA kit will be sent directly to your home.

–
Charles Hernandez
Candidate for B.A. in Latin American Studies
Harvard College, Class of 2011
(626) 354-5510

2011 Commencement Orations Competition

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Graduating in 2011?

Looking for 5 minutes of fame?

Want to make your mother proud?

Could you use $1,000?

2011 Commencement Orations Competition

Orators sought for the Senior Latin Salutatory, Senior English Address, and Graduate English Address to be delivered at the Commencement Morning Exercises, Thursday, May 26, 2011, in Tercentenary Theatre.

For more information and to enter the competition, visit the following website:  www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu

Bone Marrow Registration Drive

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The Dean of Students Office, in conjunction with the National Marrow Donor Program, is helping to sponsor a bone marrow registration drive here on campus.

If you are interested in becoming a potential bone marrow donor or learning more about what serving as a donor involves, please feel free to come by Pound 332 on either:

Monday, February 14th from 11 am to 2 pm

or

Tuesday, February 15th from 1-5 pm

Please email  dos at law.harvard.edu with questions.

Donor screening at registration no longer requires a blood sample/test, just a simple, quick, and safe cheek swab, administered by a National Marrow Donor Program representative.

DOS Trip to Sunday River – Ski, Ride & Tube

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The Dean of Students Office is pleased to offer current HLS students the opportunity to ski, ride and tube at Sunday River, February 18th-20th.

Offering 132 Trails on 671 Acres of Skiing and Riding, Sunday River is one of the Premier Ski Resorts in New England.

Sign up will begin today at 2:00pm in Pound Hall 310. Space is limited.

Students are strongly encouraged to sign up in pairs as you will be sharing a room with a classmate.

Reservations are $250 per person and include the following:

Bus Accommodations To and From HLS

2 Nights at the Jordan Grand Resort Hotel (Located Directly on the Mountain)

2 Day Lift Tickets

1 Tubing Ticket

Discounted Lessons & Equipment Rentals

Dinner at the Phoenix Restaurant on the 18th

Dinner at Sliders on the 19th

Payment can be made in person via cash, check (made out to “Harvard Law School”) or credit card (Visa, MasterCard & AMEX).

We will depart HLS at 3pm on Friday, 2/18 and return at 5:30pm on Sunday, 2/20. The time between is to be filled by a memorable trip with classmates. We hope you will join us.

Here are a few links to information on some of the many features of Sunday River:

Hotel Info: http://www.sundayriver.com/Lodging/LodgingDescriptions/JordanGrandHotel.html

Trail Map: http://www.sundayriver.com/TheMountain/images/SR_TrailMap.jpg

Current Conditions Report: http://www.sundayriver.com/TheMountain/MountainReport/index.html

Tubing Info: http://www.sundayriver.com/EventsActivities/White_Cap_Fun_Center.html

Spa Info: http://www.sundayriver.com/ResortServices/Spa_Services.html

It’s time to put all that snow to good use.

Contact the Dean of Students Office with any questions

dos@law.harvard.edu

617-495-1880

PALS (Parents at the Law School) Reception – Afternoon Tea

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Come join us this Friday afternoon (Dec. 10th, 2:30 pm, Pound 335) for a special reception in celebration of our HLS PALS (Parents at the Law School)!  Spouses, partners, and children are all welcome.  We’ll have refreshments, giveaways, and the opportunity to meet, greet, and network with fellow parents and families from the HLS community.  This will also give those in attendance the chance to make plans for future PALS events and leadership.  Please RSVP to  dos at law.harvard.edu if you would like to share in the pre-holiday festivities with us (include your name, affiliation, and the number of guests you plan to bring).

BOOK, CD / DVD, VIDEO GAME DRIVE: More Than Words

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More Than Words

CLEAR YOUR SHELVES & HELP OUR YOUTH TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES.

BOOK, CD / DVD, VIDEO GAME DRIVE – We will have two blue storage tubs available in Harkness Commons for collections from Monday, December 6th, through Monday, December 20th.

WE NEED:
FICTION
NON FICTION
AUDIO BOOKS
TEXTBOOKS
PAPERBACKS
HARDCOVERS
MUSIC CDs
DVDs
BLURAY DISCS
VIDEO GAMES
AND MORE.

The items we collect will directly support our hands-on job training program– empowering youth to work as a team to manage their own retail and online Bookstore and Café business. With your support, our youth develop real life skills and self-confidence for their transition to adulthood.

EMPOWERING YOUTH TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR LIVES BY TAKING CHARGE OF A BUSINESS!

To learn more visit:  www.MTWYouth.org or call (781) 788-0035.

WHO ARE WE?
More Than Words is a non-profit social enterprise that empowers youth who are in the foster care system, court involved, homeless, or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.

WHAT DO WE DO?
By working as a team to manage their own retail and online used book business, café, and community space, youth develop the employment skills, leadership, and self-confidence they need to successfully transition to adulthood.  In addition to store-based job training, youth are engaged in personal transition planning and case management to support their progress towards employment and education. The MTW model is premised on the belief that when at-risk youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and have high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address their personal barriers, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become thriving members of society..

HOW ARE WE DOING?
MTW has established itself as an innovative model for employment training and positive youth development.  MTW is in touch with over 70% of youth trained or currently in training Approximately 82% of past and current youth have obtained or are on track to obtain their GED or diploma.  Approximately 75% of past youth are currently engaged in either full time work and/or education.  By learning to run their businesses, the youth are helping to cover over 30% of the organization’s budget.

Fitness Fridays- Core & more!

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The Dean of Students Office is bringing another FREE fitness class to Pound Hall! 

Core & More -     Get all the benefits of an abs class PLUS experience the freedom to move and flow in various planes of motion, which will ultimately increase flexibility and effectiveness.  

This class will be led by instructor Megan Shirley from Hemenway Gym.  Mats and resistance bands will be provided. 

Friday, 12/3, 12-1 p.m. in Pound Hall 332
Friday, 12/10, 12-1 p.m. in Pound Hall 332
Friday, 12/17, 12-1 p.m. in Pound Hall 332

Email Tim Cusack to reserve a spot! This event is available to HLS students only.
tcusack@law.harvard.edu

http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/student-services/wellness/fitness-fridays.html

Faith & Leadership in a Fragmented World, Immersion Workshop

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The Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership presents

Faith & Leadership in a Fragmented World, Immersion Workshop—January 17–20, 2011

Faculty 

Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School
Nitin Nohria, Dean and Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Bernard Steinberg,President and Director, Harvard Hillel; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Diana Eck

Faculty Associates

Robert Rodgers, Master of Theological Studies candidate, Harvard Divinity School
Loren Gary, Associate Director, Leadership Development & Public Affairs, Center for Public Leadership

Workshop Description

The questions of leadership—What am I called to do? What is my community called to do? What are we called to do now?—are at least as old as Moses’ conversation with God at the burning bush. “Why me?” asks Moses, when called to free his people. And, “Who or what is calling me? Why these people? Who are they anyway? Why here, now, in this place?” The practice of leadership, in other words, is relational.

This workshop helps prepare contemporary public leaders to engage others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty and fragmentation—and in increasingly multireligious contexts—by exploring the role of faith and spirituality in three dimensions: self-knowledge, relationship with others, and call to action. The work—primarily done in community with other participants—includes close reading of classical narratives, case study discussion, practice of public narrative, and personal reflection.

How to Apply

Faith & Leadership in a Fragmented World is open to degree candidates from all schools at Harvard. Online applications for this not-for-credit workshop will be available beginning Nov. 8 at www.hks.harvard.edu/leadership and are due by 12:00 noon on Nov. 15. Students will be notified about their admission before the Thanksgiving break. For more information, contact Loren Gary ( loren_gary at hks.harvard.edu).

Civil Rights in 2010 and Beyond: Tom Perez ’87 & the Future of Civil Rights Work

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Civil Rights in 2010 and Beyond:  Tom Perez ’87, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Tuesday, October 26
6:30 p.m.
Austin East
Pizza provided

Please join Tom Perez ’87, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice for a talk on the future of civil rights work.

Thomas E. Perez, nominated by President Obama to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, was sworn in on October 8, 2009. Since then, Mr. Perez has worked to restore and transform the Division, in the spirit of its traditional role as the “conscience of the nation,” to further fulfill the promise of our nation’s most treasured laws – advancing equal opportunity, leveling the playing field, and protecting the rights of all.

Mr. Perez has spent his entire career in public service. Prior to his nomination, he served as the Secretary of Maryland’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation – an agency that safeguards critical consumer and worker protections – and was a principal architect of a sweeping reform package to address his state’s foreclosure crisis. In 2002, he became the first Latino elected to the Montgomery County Council, serving with distinction until 2006.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Perez spent 12 years in federal public service, mainly as a career attorney in the Civil Rights Division he now leads. In that role, he prosecuted, or supervised the prosecution of, some of the Division’s highest-profile civil rights cases, including a hate crimes case in Texas involving a group of white supremacists who went on a deadly, racially motivated crime spree. Mr. Perez later served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under Attorney General Janet Reno, chairing the interagency Worker Exploitation Task Force, which oversaw a variety of initiatives designed to protect vulnerable workers. He also served as Special Counsel to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, acting as Senator Kennedy’s principal adviser on civil rights, criminal justice and constitutional issues. For the final two years of the Clinton administration, Mr. Perez served as the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Mr. Perez, who has been a law professor at University of Maryland School of Law and a part-time professor at the George Washington School of Public Health, received a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1983, a Master’s of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1987, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1987.  Mr. Perez lives in Maryland with his wife, Ann Marie Staudenmaier, an attorney with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and their three children.

HLS Gets Crafty

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We have a dozen tables reserved so far for this year’s Crafts Fair scheduled for November 3 from 12-2 in Ropes Gray.  Crafts for sale will range from jewelry and gingerbread houses to knit items and photographs.  It isn’t too late to sign up, simply email dos@law with your name, your email address, your Harvard Law School affiliation (student, faculty, staff, or family member) and your crafts for sale.

Seizing Opportunities to Enhance U.S. Aid Effectiveness: The State of Play and Ways Forward

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Wednesday, April 21
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm

Weil Town Hall (Belfer L-1)
Harvard Kennedy School

Moderated by:

Professor Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Featuring:

Steve Feldstein, Professional Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Congress (TBC)
Karen Hanrahan, COO, Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review, U.S. State Department
Paul O’Brien, Vice President for Policy and Advocacy, Oxfam America
Jonathan Quick, President and CEO, Management Sciences for Health

This policy panel will consider three important policy processes now underway – the Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review (QDDR) being advanced by the State Department, the Presidential Study Directive (PSD) being carried out by the National Security Council to review U.S. global development policy, and efforts to rewrite the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act within the U.S. Congress – and the historic opportunity they offer to reshape U.S. foreign assistance and global development policy to be more effective, coherent and integrated.

The panel will bring NGO perspectives, drawn from decades of working in poor communities worldwide, together with U.S. government policy perspectives.  How does the QDDR weigh diplomacy and development as U.S. foreign policy priorities?  How should the U.S. government’s development capacity be strengthened – and how should it relate to diplomacy and defense imperatives?  What major principles should guide U.S. foreign assistance reform in order to dramatically enhance aid effectiveness?  What are the political prospects of such aid reform legislation being passed?  How will the PSD relate to  the QDDR and aid reform?  These are some of the questions that will be considered in the panel discussion and the Q&A to follow.

This policy panel is organized by the Humanitarian & Development NGOs Domain of Practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.  Contact  sherine_jayawickrama at harvard.edu for more information.

General Interest: HLPR/ACS Progressive Formal Ticket Sales

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Tickets for the ACS/HLPR Progressive Formal on Saturday, March 27 will be on sale in the Hark Tuesday 3/23 and Wednesday 3/24 from 12-1pm. Tickets are $20 and will not be available for sale at the door. So buy your ticket in advance!
comments: Progressive Spring Formal
March 27, 2010
8-11pm
Harvard’s Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA

The Harvard Law & Policy Review and the HLS American Constitution Society present the annual Progressive Spring Formal! Please join your fellow progressive law students for an evening of drinks, appetizers, three-layer cake, archeology, ethnology, and good company. This year, HLPR and ACS will be holding their marquee social event at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. The event will feature a full open bar, appetizers, and dessert. Portions of the museum may be open for viewing as well. Non-Harvard affiliated guests are welcome.

Carr Center Event- Larry Cox POSTPONED

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POSTPONED-Larry Cox
The Activist’s Studio:  Conversations on the Art and Politics of Human Rights

Dear Friends of the Carr Center,

The Larry Cox presentation has been postponed to March, 10, 2010 from 6:30-8:00pm. We are sorry about the inconvenience and hope that most can still make it.

The Center launches our series focusing on the relationships between Art and Human Rights.  Professor Timothy P. McCarthy and Carr Center Fellow, Rose Styron, are starting us off with their first event, this Thursday 18 February with:

Larry Cox
Executive Director
Amnesty International, USA

as our first guest for:

The Activist’s Studio: The Art & Politics of Human Rights

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you,
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Critical Issues of the Haiti Humanitarian Response

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Michel Gabaudan:
A UNHCR Perspective on the International Response to Haiti

Due to travel delays, Michel Gabaudan will be unable to join us, but we look forward to rescheduling later in the year.

We will still meet and have a great discussion on:

“Critical Issues of the Haiti Humanitarian Response”
Chaired by Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha and introduced by Dr. Gregg Greenough

UNHCR-HAITI Discussants:

“Immediate Health and Public Health Needs of the Haitian Population–the View from a Field Hospital”

Stephanie Rosborough, MD, MPH
Affiliate Faculty,
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

“The Vulnerable Population — Findings of the FXB-HHI Child Protection Assessment”

Brett Nelson, MD, MPH
Affiliate Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Co-Director, Program on Children in Conflict and Crisis

“The Evolution of Crowd-sourced Data and Open Platforms for Response”

Patrick Meier, PhD (candidate)
Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Director, Program on Crisis Mapping

This event will still be on Wednesday 10 February at 4:00pm.  We hope to see you there.

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Rubenstein Building
2nd floor – Room 219

WLA Conference Save-the-Date & Lunch/Dinner Registration

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Please save the date for the Fourth Annual Women’s Law Association Conference – Women for Women: Advocating for Change, which will take place on Friday, February 19th in Ropes-Gray.  The Conference will feature keynote addresses by Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President, and Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General, as well as three impressive panels.  Please see our website for a full schedule of events.

All events are free and open to the public, but advance registration is required for lunch and dinner.  Beginning Wednesday, February 3rd you may register for lunch and dinner on our website .

Women for Women: Advocating for Change will be an interesting day and an opportunity to showcase the many contributions of women to others in the courtroom, workplace and community – we look forward to your participation!

Immigration Symposium: En/Countering Stereotypes

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Join some of the nation’s leading academic experts on immigration law and policy who will be gathered at the University of La Verne College of Law. Clinicians, scholars, and practitioners will grapple with a wide range of cutting edge immigration issues. In coordination with the live event, the University of La Verne Law Review is publishing a Symposium Issue on Immigration Law, and will be accepting submissions through February 1, 2010.

The Keynote speaker will be Hiroshi Motomura, Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.  He will be speaking on the topic: What Is “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”? Hiroshi Motomura is the Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law at UCLA. He is an influential scholar and teacher of immigration law whose publications include two immigration-related casebooks and Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, a comprehensive study of U.S. immigration policy.

“En/Countering Stereotypes” has been approved by the State Bar of California for both general MCLE credit and Legal Specialty Education in the area of Immigration Law. CLE credit can be obtained in the following specialty areas:
• Immigrant Visas (1.25 hours)
• Removal/Deportation/Exclusion Procedures (1.5 hours)
• Administrative and Judicial Review (1.25 hours)

For further information:
 http://law.laverne.edu/academics/lawrevi…

Or call (909) 460-2080 or e-mail Olen Guiab, Law Review Editor-in-Chief, at  lawreveic at laverne.edu.

Seminar on Poverty, Hunger and Climate Change: February 4

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Poverty, Hunger and Climate Change: Addressing New Challenges in Agricultural Development

DATE:               Thursday, February 4

TIME:               11.30 am – 1.00 pm

LOCATION:      Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1) at the Harvard Kennedy School

As part of its NGO Leaders Seminar Series, the Humanitarian & Development NGOs Domain at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will host a senior leadership team from Heifer International on Thursday, February 4.  Led by Jo Luck, President of Heifer International, the team will conduct a seminar that explores new challenges in agricultural development, against the backdrop of poverty, hunger and climate change.

The seminar will discuss the context that Heifer International faces in developing countries – especially in rural communities that are dependent on agriculture and livestock – and how that context will increasingly be shaped by the threat of climate change and increasing food insecurity.  How does as an NGO like Heifer deal with these challenges?  How do programs respond to such challenges?  How are the policy and institutional dimensions of these challenges addressed by advocacy efforts?  How are Heifer’s education efforts trying to enhance awareness and mobilize action among the American public?

Jo Luck will frame and lead the seminar. Constance Neely, Vice President for Advocacy at Heifer International, will speak to the policy and advocacy dimensions of the issue.  Jim Rollings, Senior Director of Heifer Village, will speak to the public education aspect of the topic.

This seminar promises to bring together multiple angles of how a leading international NGO advances its own distinctive approach to poverty, hunger and climate change.  A substantial block of time will be devoted to Q&A and discussion.

More about Heifer International

Heifer International’s mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty while caring for the earth.  Its philosophy is that by giving families and communities a hand-up, rather than a hand-out, Heifer empowers its beneficiaries to turn lives of hunger and poverty into self-reliance and hope.  With gifts of livestock and training, Heifer helps families and communities improve their nutrition and generate income in sustainable ways.  Heifer is also unique in its “Passing on the Gift” practice: the animals, referred to as “living loans,” are given to families on the condition that they in turn agree to give one of the animal’s offspring to another family in need.  This practice – the cornerstone of Heifer’s mission – creates an ever-expanding network of hope and peace.

More about the Humanitarian & Development NGOs Domain of Practice

The Hauser Center’s Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain seeks to connect scholars and NGO practitioners – and catalyze reflection and exchange among them – in ways that enhance the impact of NGOs in the humanitarian and development spheres.  The domain: helps to convene the NGO Leaders Forum, a semi-annual retreat for chief executives of the major U.S.-based international relief and development NGOs; sponsors an NGO Leaders Seminar Series that brings leading NGO practitioners to Harvard; advances processes of research and inquiry into pressing issues faced by NGOs; convenes an NGOs & Development study group at Harvard; helps connect Harvard students with NGO practitioners and careers; and hosts a Humanitarian & Development NGOs blog.  For more information about the Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain, please contact Sherine Jayawickrama, Domain Manager, at sherine_jayawickrama@harvard.edu.