Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) is a student-run, staff supported public service/social action organization at Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

 providing a variety of services to the Greater Boston

Greater Boston

Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston. Due to ambiguity in usage, the size of the area referred to can be anywhere between that of the metropolitan statistical area of Boston and that of the city's combined statistical area which includes...

 community. PBHA programs effect social change through service and activism

Activism

Activism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...

 in partnership with local communities.

Termtime Programs

• Aiming for Higher Emerson Academic Development (AHEAD)
• Alternative Spring Breaks (ASB)
• Best Buddies
• Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Program (BRYE)
• BRYE Extension
• BRYE 1-2-1
• BRYE Teen
• BRYE Tutoring
• CASP
• CHANCE
• Chinatown Committee
• Chinatown Afterschool
• Chinatown Big Sib
• Chinatown Citizenship
• Chinatown ESL
  Chinatown ESL
  Chinatown ESL is a public service program under the Chinatown Committee of Harvard's undergraduate service organization, the . It is an English-as-a-Second-Language program serving the Chinese immigrant population of Greater Boston. The students range from newly immigrated working adults to senior...
  
  
• Chinatown Teen
• CIVICS
• Committee on Deaf Awareness (CODA)
• Committee on the Blind (COB)
• Dearborn Afterschool Program
• Elderly Affairs Committee
• Harvard Environmental Action Committee
• Environmental Education (EnviroEd)
• ExperiMentors
• Franklin Afterschool Enrichment (FASE)
• Franklin Teen Mentoring
• Harvard Youth Leadership Initiative (HYLI)
• Habitat for Humanity,
• Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth (HARMONY)
• Harvard Emergency Medical Services Program (HEMS)
• Harvard Emerging Literacy Project (HELP)
• Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC)
• Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group (HPAG)
• Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
• Housing Opportunities Program (HOP)
• Kids with Special Needs Achievement Program (KSNAP)
• Keylatch Afterschool Program
• Keylatch Mentor
• LEADERS!
• Mather School Tutoring (MST)
• Mission Hill Committee
• Mission Hill After-School Program (MHASP)
• Mission Mentor (formerly Project Umoja)
• Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN)
• Pets as Therapy
• Prison Education Program
• Houston House
• Suffolk County House of Correction
• Youth Prison Tutoring Programs
• Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)
• Project Literacy
• Refugee Youth Term Enrichment (RYTE)
• S.A.B.E.S.
• Small Claims Advisory Service (SCAS)
• South Boston Outreach Big Sibling
• Strong Women, Strong Girls
• Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM)
• VISIONS
• Wilderness 1-2-1
• Youth Recreation Program

Summer Urban Program (SUP)

SUP camps are not just camps in the community but are community camps. This means that everything we do is based on and embedded within our tight-knit communities.

The camp day, which typically runs from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, is divided into two main parts - mornings are spent engaged in classroom learning while afternoons are spent on educational and fun field trips in and around Boston. Camp staff includes 2 or more directors, college-age senior counselors, and high school-age junior counselors who come from the communities served by the camps.

The Summer Urban Program consists of 9 camps in Boston and 3 in Cambridge:

• Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE)
• Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (CYEP)
• Chinatown Adventure (CHAD)
• Franklin I-O Summer Program
• Keylatch Summer Program
• Mission Hill Summer Program (MHSP)
• Native American Youth Enrichment Program (NAYEP)
• Roxbury Youth Initiative (RYI)
• South Boston Outreach (SBOS)
• Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment (RYSE)

Other Summer Programs

• Chinatown Citizenship
• Chinatown ESL
• HARMONY Summer
• Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC)
• House Opportunities Program (HOP)
• Small Claims Advisory Service (SCAS)
• St. James Summer Shelter
• Summer Science

Alumni

Alumni of the Phillips Brooks House Association include figures as diverse as Justice David Souter

David Souter

David Hackett Souter is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from 1990 until his retirement on June 29, 2009. Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by William J...

, ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin

Roger Nash Baldwin

Roger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union . He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950....

, Dr. Robert Coles

Robert Coles

Martin Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University.-Life and career:...

, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

Deval Patrick

Deval Laurdine Patrick is the 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton...

, and countless other leaders for social change in communities across America, including Richard Buery, CEO of the Children's Aid Society,