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The ClassACT HR73 Environment & Climate Change Working Group has identified pressing issues where we and our classmates can defend the integrity of science and the laws addressing climate change, biodiversity, and environmental protection.

This #GivingTuesday, support our efforts: buff.ly/73uuv2g
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's not too late to change the world!

ClassACT HR73, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1973, with a goal to address important problems.

Please consider giving a world-changing donation to ClassACTHR73 today! #GivingTuesday buff.ly/73uuv2g
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
✅ Support future leaders of predominantly Muslim countries at the Harvard Kennedy School through the Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program.
✅ Launch new projects focusing on culture, healthcare and the environment.
✅ Spread the ClassACT concept to other Harvard classes.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
✅ Send out timely ClassACTion Alerts, missives that highlight important opportunities to get involved.
✅ Expand the reach of our Justice & Civic Engagement projects, including our most recent Freedom of the Press Initiative.

Making ClassACTHR73 part of your end-of-year giving will allows us to:
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Making ClassACTHR73 part of your end-of-year giving will allows us to:

✅ Present more of the informative Zoom Forum, Webinar and Learn at Lunch Series.
✅ Bring classmates together to help more nonprofits through our Bridge Partner Program.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
⚠️ Important next steps for Nonprofits!⚠️

It's up to solicitors how comfortable they feel bringing up these options, but presumably you know your major donors quite well. In-person meetings are worth their weight in gold. Make sure you stay in touch with these major donors!
November 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
End-of-life gifts might come in the form of an outright gift or by making a charity a beneficiary of a Donor Advised Fund, Life Insurance, or retirement account.
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Life Income Gifts can be useful for larger charities. As your nonprofit grows, it may be worth consulting an attorney about this option.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Nonprofits can encourage donors to use Qualified Charitable Distributions directly from an IRA, which completely avoids income tax on the donor's part.
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Providing different options for how to give is a way of meeting the donor where they are. Options like having a direct transfer from a brokerage account to avoid capital gains tax can incentivize the donor to give even more.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Here are some ways that you can maximize the amount of money coming to your nonprofits while minimizing the impact on the donors.
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Tonight! Come learn about alternative fundraising vehicles that can enhance charitable giving and are easy, readily available options for donors. buff.ly/WiEUjPk
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Here's a call to ClassACTion from our Bridge Project The Ole & Nu Style Fellas Social Aide & Pleasure Club.

For 5 years, members of the ClassACT community have donated more than 100 coats helping keep kids from the Tremé section of New Orleans warm and dry in the winter.

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November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Join us as Michael Schechtman '73, PhD, Cornell University and Former Biotechnology Coordinator at the United States Department of Agriculture, will discuss the issues intersecting biotechnology, food imperatives and the global agricultural trade.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The ClassACT HR73 theme for this year is Democracy@250. The United States military has played a key role in our history and therefore warrants our collective attention now, as we celebrate the country’s first 250 years.
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
From LTG (Ret.) David W. Barno: Look at the legislation that need to be revised or created to restrain executive power over the military, including the Insurrection Act, Posse Comitatus Act, and Title 10 of the US Code. #ClassACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Kayyem and Barno explain that every commander has legal advice from a Judge Advocate General who helps them determine what is and is not a "legal order." The expansion of presidential powers has put them in a difficult position, but the advice they are giving is not diminished. #ClassACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It's been unclear that these attacks are illegal, so the military will carry them out, says LTG Barno. It falls to Congress to restrain the president's powers in this area. #ClassACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It is difficult for Juliette Kayyem to see the recent attacks on South American ships as anything other than extrajudicial, not least because the UK has decided to stop cooperating with the US on intelligence related to counterterrorism and counternarcotics. #ClassACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It's time for our Call to ClassACTions!
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We can't put the responsibility on the military to keep itself tethered to our larger society. That is something we as civilians owe them, Kori Schake says. #ClassACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
We need to do more to educate military members on how to translate what they did in the military so that it can be understood by civilian employers, which can bring the military more into civilian life. #ClawssACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
There is a responsibility for the military to reach out to civilians and for civilians to understand their military. On the military side, it's important for them to leave the mega-bases and military towns and show up to local county fairs, rotary clubs, etc. #ClassACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The issue with military, masking, and other issues related to ICE is there is no operational planning for what is happening on the ground right now. The DC police chief said he wasn't even notified. There have been instances of "friendly fire," and that concerns Juliette Kayyem. #ClassACTHR73Forum
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
When we hear "militia" we often think of masked people in the mountains, but the 2nd amendment also refers to the National Guard, says LTG (Ret.) David W. Barno. He agrees it isn't the 2nd amendment that's causing political violence.
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM