IMPACT INVESTING CLUB
A student club at Harvard Business School
The Harbus Foundation
Meet the Co-Presidents
The Harbus Foundation is led by HBS MBA students with backgrounds in venture philanthropy and finance to help train a new generation of Harvard grant-makers to source, diligence, and pitch highly-impactful non-profit investment opportunities.
They steer the Foundation's multi-million dollar endowment and lead training in venture philanthropy, sROI and financial modeling, and appropriate structuring of equity, debt, and grants to nonprofits
History & Mission
The Harbus Foundation was formed in 1997 by the Harbus News Corporation, a student-run campus publication nonprofit at the Harvard Business School. The goal of the Harbus Foundation is to promote literacy, journalism, and education by providing grants to relevant nonprofits in the Greater Boston area. The Harbus Foundation also provides a hands-on venture philanthropy experience for select Harvard graduate students, who lead the sourcing and diligence of potential grant recipients.
What We Do
Our student teams are split across our three verticals to source and invite topically relevant, high quality nonprofits to apply for a Harbus grant in a restricted process. Grant finalists are selected for a more in depth round of due diligence that culminates in an annual presentation to a grant committee of Harvard professors. $60-150k in total grants are given each year, though individual grant sizes can vary year-to-year.
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Education
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Literacy
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