Experience. Relationships. Impact.
ClassACT HRX8 connects Harvard alumni experience and relationships with nonprofit initiatives where targeted support can make a difference.
Founded by members of Harvard-Radcliffe '78 • Independent 501(c)(3) • Six current initiatives • Built by '78 • Open to the '8s.
What We Do
Valuable relationships. Meaningful work. Better connections.
ClassACT HRX8 helps classmates and Harvard alumni connect their experience, relationships, and practical skills to nonprofit initiatives where targeted support can make a real difference.
Our work is direct: we connect experience to need, relationships to opportunity, and good intentions to action.
Current Initiatives
Classmate-led and classmate-supported nonprofit efforts where targeted alumni expertise, relationships, and practical guidance can drive impact.
Community-led solutions for health, social services, and human needs.
Creative writing as a pathway to voice, confidence, and connection.
Expanding access to cervical cancer prevention for women who need it most.
Building local capacity to care for children with heart disease.
Feeding people in need while supporting frontline workers and local restaurants.
Advancing disability inclusion through cycling, sport, and cross-community collaboration.
The Model in Action
Miracle of Help
One relationship. One idea. Real impact.
Need
Communities around Ngolahun lacked reliable medical care and couldn't wait for a maternity hospital to open.
Connection
Classmate Risa Gold's leadership linked HRX8 to the organization.
Contribution
A classmate proposed and partly funded monthly pop-up clinics for free local care.
Impact
10,000+
Clinic visits since January 2021.
Monthly clinic supported through Miracle of Help, Sierra Leone.
Monthly clinic supported through Miracle of Help, Sierra Leone.
A relationship opened the door. A classmate's idea accelerated care.
Experience Becomes Impact
Strategic Guidance
Strategy, governance, partnerships and growth.
Professional Expertise
Legal, financial, medical, educational and operating experience.
Connections
Advisors, collaborators and institutional relationships.
A well-timed introduction, experienced advice, or board connection can help a promising initiative expand its reach and increase its impact.
Making Valuable Relationships Useful
The goal is not to build a larger institution.
The goal is to make valuable relationships useful.
HRX8 exists to help alumni apply their experience, expertise, judgment, and relationships where they can make a meaningful difference.
Built by ’78. Open to the ’8s.
ClassACT HRX8 began with the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1978.
The model is open to alumni from the '8 classes who want to apply their experience, expertise, and relationships to meaningful nonprofit initiatives.
Get Involved
Offer Expertise
Share professional experience, strategic advice, board leadership, or support for targeted initiatives.
Support an Initiative
Explore Current Initiatives and identify where your skills, relationships, or perspective could make an impact.
Stay Connected
Join the HRX8 mailing list for occasional updates, opportunities, and news about initiatives.
Submit an Initiative
Have a nonprofit initiative that could benefit from alumni expertise and relationships?
HRX8 considers nonprofit initiatives in which classmates are involved and where the HRX8 network can provide concrete strategic, operational, professional, or relationship-based support.