# Past Projects Archive ## Browse all years of PAIF-funded projects Open all sections Close all sections ### FY24 Fund Recipients expand\_more [### Accessibility Everywhere All At Once ](/accessibility-everywhere-all-once)The Longwood Medical Area (LMA) instructional design and technology staff are joining forces with Digital Accessibility Services to standardize and promote accessibility best practices for Harvard courses taught in the Canvas learning management system. [### Check Out Reusables to Reduce Campus Waste ](/check-out-reusables-reduce-campus-waste) Project Mission: To utilize an existing, on-campus “borrowing” technology and culture to create a sustainable, reusable take-out container program for dining operations and students within Harvard College Team Members: Crista Martin, Harvard University... [### Expanding the Inclusive Teaching Institute Faculty Fellowship Model ](/expanding-inclusive-teaching-institute-faculty-fellowship-model) Project Mission: Through our Inclusive Teaching Institute (ITI), we aim to cultivate and sustain a learning community for faculty and teaching staff across Harvard University to connect about inclusive teaching practices, pedagogies, theories, and... [### Harvard University Events Calendar ](/harvard-university-events-calendar)Where can I find a listing of all upcoming events at Harvard? It’s a question many in the community ask, but a centralized view of all University events does not exist. [### Investigating AV over IP Options Across Harvard ](/investigating-av-over-ip-options-across-harvard)AV over IP (Audio Visual over Internet Protocol) allows for audio, video and control signals to be transmitted, monitored and controlled via the internet. [### Let's Learn Together - Building Better Documentation ](/lets-learn-together-building-better-documentation)The mission of the project is to improve documentation efforts around the university so that we are training new staff and highlighting our best practices using new technology. [### University Collections Data Access: Phase 1 ](/university-collections-data-access-phase-1) Project Mission: Our mission is to expand access and improve care of University Collections through the development of a standardized and accessible database that supports the work of cultural property stewards across campus. Team Members: Jennifer... ### FY23 Fund Recipients expand\_more [### Black Staff Caucus ](/black-staff-caucus)Black Staff Caucus is the first group of its kind to focus specifically on Black staff at the Harvard Longwood Campus (HLC). [### Harvard Caregivers' Support Network ](/harvard-caregivers-support-network)The Harvard Caregivers Support Network is a project striving to collate and expand the supports and resources the diverse caregivers of our University need. [### Harvard Staff Art Show ](/harvard-staff-art-show)The Staff Art Show, having increased belonging and connection through sharing the creative sides of Harvard staff, seeks to increase its impact through hosting more events, improving the existing show’s website and publicity, and providing installation... [### Project Management Service Core ](/project-management-service-core)Many scientific research projects have evolved to include a team of different collaborators in specialized disciplines. [### The Whole Me Campaign ](/whole-me-campaign)The Whole Me Campaign aims to educate individuals and the broader Harvard community about the disability experience, including invisible disabilities and intersectional needs. [### Wellbeing through Art at Harvard ](/wellbeing-through-art-harvard)Art immersion is an emerging and innovative discipline linked to improved psychological health, cognitive abilities, creativity, and overall wellbeing. ### FY22 Fund Recipients expand\_more [### Crimson Workspace ](/harvardworks)Since the COVID-19 pandemic Harvard has had to rethink the way we work. With the success of remote work over the past year, and the expectation that remote work will continue at some level for the foreseeable future, comes a new need for dynamic... [### Disability Perspectives - A Film Series ](/disability-perspectives-film-series)Disability is an often overlooked, misunderstood, and underdiscussed aspect of diversity, equity, and inclusion. An estimated 20% of the Harvard community would identify as having a disability of some kind. [### Innovative DEI+A Strategies for Humanitarian Organizations (Hum DEI+A) ](/innovative-dei-and-antiracism-strategies-promote-remote-virtual-workplace)The goal of the project is to create a novel Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Antiracism (DEI+A) strategic framework as part of the overall Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) Balanced Scorecard that is currently being developed. [### Scaling and Streamlining the HELIX Portable Blended Classroom ](/scaling-and-streamlining-helix-portable-blended-classroom)As hybrid learning becomes more normalized and utilized in today’s world, Harvard University will not only be expected to offer opportunities for blended collaboration, but to be at the forefront of this changing technological landscape. [### Sustained Commitment to Diverse Supplier Inclusion ](/sustained-commitment-diverse-supplier-inclusion-foundation-diverse-supplier-growth)This program proposes the creation of a central Supplier Diversity and Inclusion tool containing certified diverse suppliers, searchable and filterable by diversity type, service/goods, ethnicity and other criteria required by the purchasing community. [### The Future of Work: Serving Two Campuses at SEAS ](/future-work-serving-two-campuses-seas)We will create a process for designing, developing, and deploying Active Learning Kits to engage with students on both SEAS campuses in Cambridge and Allston. [### The Social Impact Navigator ](/social-impact-navigator)A resource to help connect the programs, centers, and people on Harvard’s campus who are working to make a positive social impact in communities around the world. ### FY20 Fund Recipients expand\_more [### \#Morejoy ](/%23morejoy)We believe in a community of connected employees. We strive to create a workplace that joyfully inspires participation, inclusion, safety, curiosity, innovation and a sense of purpose and belonging. description [### Building Accessible Spaces: Integrating Assistive Technology ](/building-accessible-spaces-integrating-assistive-technology)In the spirit of inclusion and belonging, best practice is to host accessible events, including but not limited to providing effective communication services such as American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and live captioning (CART). description [### Gender Inclusive Mapping for Harvard University ](/gender-inclusive-mapping-harvard-university)The Gender Inclusive Mapping project for Harvard University seeks to ensure that all Harvard community members and guests, including those who are transgender, gender non-binary, and gender nonconforming, have accurate and inclusive means of locating rest... description [### Harvard Campus Lactation Rooms: Enhance Access – Expand Capacity ](/harvard-campus-lactation-rooms-enhance-access-%E2%80%93-expand-capacity)Access to private, secure, comfortable rooms for all nursing parents to continue balancing their breastfeeding and working schedules is a goal that Harvard encourages. description [### Harvard College Central Calendar: Creating Cyber Connections and Community ](/harvard-college-central-calendar-creating-cyber-connections-and-community)We seek to create a Harvard College Central Calendar as a unified, interactive resource with key dates and events across Harvard for undergraduate students description [### Harvard Votes Challenge: Building a University-Wide Civic Culture ](/harvard-votes-challenge-building-university-wide-civic-culture)We endeavor to transform Harvard University into a national leader of civic engagement by increasing voter registration and participation rates. description [### Nurturing Talent to Nurture Success: Enabling Experiential Learning Opportunities across Harvard ](/nurturing-talent-nurture-success-enabling-experiential-learning-opportunities-across)We will centralize these opportunities through the creation of a “job board” website, along with forms, templates, best practices, procedures, and assessments. description [### Organic Maintenance of Harvard Landscape with Sustainable Biofertilizer ](/organic-maintenance-harvard-landscape-sustainable-biofertilizer)Every year academic institutions nationwide attempt to revitalize their campus green spaces by reseeding grasses, supplying fertilizer, applying pesticides/herbicides, etc. description [### Storyline: Learning in the Greenway ](/storyline-learning-greenway)Harvard’s history in Allston is a compelling story of transformation. description ### FY19 Fund Recipients expand\_more [### \#conciousharvard ](/consciousharvard)We plan to create an interactive exhibition in a public space that invites all members of the community to offer their perspective about their own experience of Belonging at Harvard. description [### DIB (Diversity Inclusion & Belonging) Conference ](/dib-conference-diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-conference)We envision a yearly conference that would gather Diversity Officers, staff members with diversity duties, diversity task forces, employee resource groups, and other diversity focused people together to share their work and build networks. description [### Employee Resource Group Capacity Building and Expansion ](/employee-resource-group-capacity-building-and-expansion)The Employee Resource Groups for Harvard faculty and staff plan to meaningfully expand outreach efforts to provide opportunities to hundreds of current and future Harvard employees University-wide. description [### Harvard Health Innovation Network (HHIN) ](/harvard-health-innovation-network-hhin)The Harvard Health Innovation Network (HHIN) is comprised of 10+ different health care entrepreneurship and innovation organizations across Harvard. description [### Harvard HR Policies Access Project (HHR-PAP) ](/harvard-hr-policies-access-project-hhr-pap)We want to create better access to our policies. We have identified and inventoried 160 policies\* across the University. description [### Harvard IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, and Excellence in Action ](/harvard-ideas%C2%A0-inclusion-diversity-and-excellence-action)Harvard IDEAs is a cultural competency training that moves beyond preparing individuals to “work in” an inclusive environment. It prepares individuals to “actively contribute to” an inclusive environment. description [### This is How You Say My Name: Integrating Name Recording into My.Harvard ](/how-you-say-my-name%C2%A0-integrating-name-recording-myharvard)Our intent is to provide students with a simple way to record their name in my.harvard and make the recording available in class rosters and to advisors. description ### FY18 Fund Recipients expand\_more [### Accessible Technology Procurement ](/accessible-technology-procurement)To develop a sustainable and shareable system to track accessibility in the procurement system. description [### Capital Assets ](/capital-assets)To streamline the inventory process at a University level by volunteering departments from a few schools to pilot an asset tracking technology program. description [### Central Admissions Institution Database ](/central-admissions-institution-database)To improve the way that external institution data is collected and stored by Admissions Offices across Harvard and the my.Harvard system. description [### Clever Chemical ](/clever-chemical)To answer the question, “What chemical inventory management technology will provide the best combination of operational efficiency, safety, compliance, sustainability, and benefit to university stakeholders, and how should such a system be implemented?”... description [### Flexible Work Environments ](/flexible-work-environments)To develop the start toward a shared pathway to more efficient use of office space and new ways of working on the Harvard campus. description [### Macro Pack ](/macro-pack)To save employees time and reduce errors throughout the University by creating macros that automate routine tasks in Excel. description [### Nudge Portal ](/nudge-portal-0)To design a uniquely ‘One Harvard’ approach to adoption of administrative innovations that is based on insights from behavioral economics and ‘nudge’ research. description [### The Future of Commencement ](/future-commencement)To make Commencement Week activities more secure and sustainable with a transition from paper to digital tickets. description ### FY17 Fund Recipients expand\_more [### 21st Century Mailing ](/21st-century-mailing)Harvard currently receives 100,000+ mail returns per year, which equates to postage fees, staff time to process, and lost opportunity cost with information not reaching intended audiences. description [### An Automated Allocation Innovation ](/automated-allocation-innovation)Our innovation is to create an automated, efficient, and flexible computer tool for these allocation challenges. description [### Building a Participant Pool for Internal Accessibility Testing ](/building-participant-pool-internal-accessibility-testing)In order to successfully improve Harvard’s broader efforts toward digital accessibility, a greater number of staff members must be engaged in testing and improving technology systems, websites, and other electronic products. description [### Check-in Safe Abroad ](/check-safe-abroad)The team at CMES is seeking to correct the challenge of supporting Harvard international scholarly travel during this time of global uncertainty, by finding ways to rapidly and effectively communicate with travelers in a crisis. description [### Cross-University Executive Education Program ](/cross-university-executive-education-program)While Harvard University has the unique benefit of eight separate professional Schools that each offer innovative executive education programming, there is no current administrative mechanism that leverages the combined advantages of all Schools’... description [### Faculty Support Administrators Network ](/faculty-support-administrators-network)The FSAN aims to contribute to the educational mission of Harvard through sharing knowledge among managers of faculty-support staff, developing best practices for managers and staff, and learning from and sharing with peers. description [### Financial Training Initiative ](/financial-training-initiative)Create a plan for a comprehensive and sustainable University financial training program for the University community. The accuracy of financial information plays a critical role at the University leading to a need for a comprehensive financial training... description [### Healthier Building Materials ](/healthier-building-materials)A strong and growing body of research from Harvard faculty and other scientists has shown that some of the most effective interventions for enhancing the health, productivity and well-being of people in the built environment is through healthier building... description [### Launch Analytics Staff Consortium ](/launch-analytics-staff-consortium)An initial group of individuals from eleven offices will pilot an Analytics Staff Consortium (ASC) for Harvard staff whose work involves analytics. description