Harvard Institute of Politics

  
"I urge all of you today, especially those who are students, to act, to enter the lists of public service and rightly win or lose the prize."
                         
                            President Kennedy, Remarks at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

 

In 1966, the Kennedy Library Corporation presented Harvard University with an endowment for the creation of the Institute of Politics (IOP).

The Institute strives to promote greater understanding and cooperation between the academic world and the world of politics and public affairs. 

Each year, to celebrate their common roots, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government award the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards to two young Americans who are changing their communities and their country. 

The New Frontier Awards are presented to exceptional young Americans under the age of 40.

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