About ClassACT HRX8
A practical network for alumni impact
Who We Are
ClassACT HRX8 is an independent nonprofit organization founded by members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1978.
We help classmates and Harvard alumni apply trusted relationships, professional experience, and practical skills to meaningful nonprofit initiatives.
HRX8 supports initiatives founded, sponsored, or championed by classmates when targeted guidance, expertise, introductions, or board-level support can strengthen the initiative.
Why Classes Matter
Alumni classes are more than reunion groups or social networks. Over a lifetime, classmates build trust, experience, expertise, perspective, goodwill, and lasting relationships. Most organizations must build those assets from scratch, whereas classes already have them.
The class provides the community. Relationships are the asset. Meaningful initiatives create opportunities for impact.
HRX8 exists to help those relationships become useful in service of meaningful work.
What HRX8 Does
Many nonprofit initiatives need advisors, board members, mentors, professional expertise, introductions, and practical support. At the same time, many alumni want to contribute but are unsure how their experience can help.
The challenge is often not a lack of goodwill. It is a lack of connection.
HRX8 helps reduce that gap by connecting nonprofit initiatives with classmates and Harvard alumni who can contribute in practical ways.
How We Help:
Strategic guidance and problem-solving
Professional and technical expertise
Board and advisory support
Institutional and professional introductions
Communications and visibility
Partnerships and network development
Mentorship and operating support
The focus is practical: helping promising initiatives become stronger, more effective, and more sustainable.
How Alumni Participate
HRX8 is designed to be simple and flexible. There are no dues, member accounts, formal participation requirements, or prescribed levels of involvement. Alumni participate where and when they can be helpful.
Offer professional expertise
Make introductions
Advise initiative leaders
Serve on boards or advisory groups
Support a specific initiative
Stay connected until the right opportunity arises
The model is designed to make participation easier, not more complicated
Built by ’78. Open to the ’8s.
ClassACT HRX8 began with the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1978 and is designed to engage alumni from the '8 classes: '78, '88, '98, '08, '18, and '28.
The goal is continuity: a practical alumni network that supports social-impact work today while offering future '8 classes a simple model for engagement, service, and shared purpose.
HRX8 began with a single class. Its model encourages broader alumni participation over time while preserving each class's identity and autonomy.
Independent and Alumni-Led
HRX8 values its relationships with Harvard alumni, students, schools, centers, programs, and affiliated communities. However, HRX8 is not affiliated with Harvard University, the Harvard Alumni Association, or any Harvard-affiliated institution.
The objective is partnership, not integration.
Our Core Principles
Classes Are the Vehicle
Class identity provides a natural and durable foundation for participation, continuity, and engagement.
Relationships Are the Asset
Trust, experience, expertise, and long-standing personal connections are the network's most valuable assets.
Initiatives Create Impact
People engage most naturally through meaningful work that enables their contributions to make a practical difference.
Participation Should Be Easy
HRX8 seeks to reduce friction between people who want to help and opportunities to do so.
Engagement Is Voluntary
Participation is voluntary and occurs at the level each individual finds meaningful.
Initiative Leaders Lead.
HRX8 supports the people closest to the work. Our role is to strengthen initiatives, not to direct them.
The Work Is Nonpartisan
HRX8 supports nonprofit and civic work without advocating for partisan political outcomes.
Looking Ahead
HRX8 was not created to build a larger institution.
Its purpose is simpler: to help classmates and Harvard alumni turn relationships into meaningful impact.
A thoughtful conversation, a strategic introduction, a professional insight, or a trusted connection can sometimes help a promising initiative move forward.
The goal is not activity. The goal is usefulness.
Board of Directors
David Boghossian
Kate Felsen Di Pietro
Martin Grasso
Don Guiney
David Miller
Ginnie Muller
Margarita Montoto
Julie Sakellariadis
John Tuke