Funded Projects

Since 2016, staff throughout the University have used the President’s Administrative Innovation Fund to create connections across schools and units, develop new approaches to persistent challenges, and advance excellence in areas such as academic administration, service delivery, and talent development.

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Projects Funded

The Harvard Votes Challenge seeks to empower voters and create a civic culture at Harvard University. PAIF provided meaningful support to incubate an institutional movement, where we all have a role in our democracy.

Teresa Acuña

Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Votes Challenge: Building a University-Wide Civic Culture
A lot of hard work went into this project but we had a great dedicated team. We learned a lot and developed an incredible system. The upfront work is paying off. The use of RFID technology is moving us toward a much faster and more accurate inventory process.

Jeff DiCiaccio

Harvard Medical School

Project: Captial Assets
PAIF projects seem to get more University visibility and support. Our PAIF advisors also provide the team with great advice and direction.

Jeff DiCiaccio

Harvard Medical School

Project: Captial Assets

Project Highlights

#harvardvotes

The Harvard Votes Challenge is a nonpartisan initiative that strives to build a civic culture at Harvard University by increasing voter registration and participation among students, staff, and faculty.

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#collegecalendar

This past summer we launched a central calendar for undergraduates that combines events from calendars across the College and university into one place. We signed a contract with the vendor localist because of its capabilities to interface with so many of our current systems.

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#consciousharvard

An initiative that creates public spaces, both physical and virtual, for action-focused dialogue about diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging at Harvard.

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#Gender Inclusive Restroom Mapping

The Gender Inclusive Restroom Mapping Project for Harvard University project sought to ensure that all Harvard community members, including those who are transgender, gender nonbinary, and gender nonconforming, were provided an accurate and inclusive means of locating restrooms at Harvard. This goal was achieved through the dedication and hard work of an Inventory Working Group, a Signage Working Group, and a Mapping Technologies Working Group.

#Maintenance of Harvard Landscape with Sustainable Biofertilizer

"We are happy to report that the new biofertilizer not only solved the runoff problem but also reduced the carbon dioxide concentration in air. In addition, all other results such as bacterial biomass and diversity, fungal biomass, and protozoa were very satisfying."