JIM HARTLEY, '80 (Civil Engineering/Italian); Vice Chair, Stanford Alumni in Government of Sacramento, 2005-2007; Vice President and Program Manager, CH2M Hill:
“Stanford students are energetic and have special and unique talents so each one is an interesting person to get to know. For those who are interested in public service, it's very rewarding to know I helped them recognize that unapproachable door they just walked through was actually waiting to swing open for them, at the slightest touch.”

CARI PANG CHEN, '97 (Urban Studies; '98 MA, Education); member, Haas National Advisory Board (NAB):
“As an alumna, I am honored to be giving back to the Haas Center as a member of the National Advisory Board (NAB). In this capacity, I am chairing a NAB Subcommittee on alumni involvement. As the center moves towards its 25th Anniversary, I hope you will use this site to consider how you want to stay involved."

Stanford Haas Center 20th Anniversary Alumni Survey, Preliminary Executive Report [PDF format]

The Haas Center for Public Service has launched the Postgraduate and Alumni Program Office to catalyze alumni involvement in the center and the university and to better serve students interested in a first job in public service. Working closely with the Career Development Center and Stanford Alumni Association, our focus is to expand postgraduate fellowship opportunities, provide high impact networking events, and better connect students with resources and alumni.

If you are an alum doing volunteer or professional work that you love in the nonprofit sector or local, state, or national government; we welcome your involvement as our efforts evolve. We are also glad to support your leadership in reunion activities focused on service. Please contact me with your ideas or if you plan to visit campus. In the meantime, read below for ways you can participate from near and far!

Megan Swezey Fogarty ’86
Director of Postgraduate and Alumni Programs
650-725-2870
megan.fogarty@stanford.edu

Here’s How You Can Help:

• Ensure we know how to reach you , as well as your areas of expertise
(please click on Alumni Mailing List and submit your contact information)

• Help identify a postgraduate public service opportunity in a nonprofit or government agency! Click here to become part of our SPIN Network.

• Sign on to one of Stanford’s alumni-student networking sites to ensure that public service careers are well represented on these sites!
(click to get to the page with items indented below)

  • STANFORD ALUMNI MENTORING: SAM connects alumni with Stanford students in one-on-one, mentoring relationships. When you register, you become available for SAM's online matching system to pair you with a student who is excited to hear your thoughts about the professional world and life after The Farm. You define your time commitment with a minimum commitment of 1 hour per month. Go to: http://mentoring.stanford.edu
  • SHADOW PROGRAM: Sign up to be part of a database of professionals working in a wide range of career fields willing to sponsor students for a day of "shadowing.” Go to: http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/shadow

• Haas Center alumni are involved in a wide-range of professional and volunteer service activities. Help increase the profile of public service in our alumni community. Share your stories by writing a profile or submitting your public service news to Class Notes. (Have you ever written about service to your Class Notes?)

  • Class Notes
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2008/janfeb/classnotes/home.html

• Volunteer at Stanford. Watch for Haas Center program needs listed on this site.

• Support the Center: Click here to learn about our Stanford Challenge goals.

“…Public service must now embrace a larger landscape, a global community that becomes more tightly interrelated with each advancing year. It is in this spirit, one that speaks to our highest national ideals, that I call on our students to seek a role in charting the future of our democracy.” —Stanford President John Hennessy