A brief history of the Fund:

A long-standing goal of Harvard University has been to encourage its alumni to engage in public service and give back to the community. Since its founding in 1982, the Harvard Club of Naples has developed a strong tradition of giving back to the students, educators, and nonprofit leaders. The Club's Schools and Education Fund has been the primary vehicle for sustaining this tradition and fulfilling the Club's educational and charitable purposes as a tax-exempt organization.

Since 1982, the Fund has contributed to financial aid for Harvard College undergraduates from this area and provided Harvard Prize Books to outstanding juniors at local high schools. We look forward to continuing to support undergraduates in internship programs, an initiative begun in 2008.

Beginning in 2014, the Fund has enabled local school principals, administrators, and nonprofit chief executives to attend summer executive education programs at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Business School, and Kennedy School of Government through fellowship and scholarship grants. Through 2019, the Fund contributed more than $120,000 to this program, enabling fifteen principals and administrators and nine nonprofit leaders to attend these programs in Cambridge.

The Fund is overseen by the Schools and Education Fund Committee. The Fund's investments are currently managed by Moran Wealth Management and Northern Trust Securities, Inc.

The Harvard Club of Naples is most grateful for your loyal and generous support of the Schools and Education Fund, which has sustained the Club's tradition of giving back to the students, educators, and nonprofit leaders.