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I am a career U.S. naval officer currently enrolled in the one-year mid-career Master of Public Administration program at the Harvard Kennedy School in Boston, MA. I created this site (my first ever attempt at working with a blog) to advertise/market a social experiment we are conducting as part of an ongoing class in the art of negotiations.

Red Paperclip Update!

It’s been awhile since our last update as most of student body was out of town last week during spring break either visiting family, traveling overseas, or job hunting with graduation fast approaching; however, we are back and trading continues! There has been quite a bit of progress since our last update. As you may have noticed, we modified the site to make it a little more user friendly. You may also notice that we have several new, high-end items thanks to several gracious donors/supporters.

Just to briefly highlight some of the items we currently have available:

– 2 hours of consulting or professional coaching on fundraising (provided by Copley Raff Consultants)
– 3 hours of business consulting (provided by Youville’s Director of Marketing)
– Wedding services provided by a certified Justice of the Peace
– Lunch at Sandrine’s French restaurant in Harvard Square (provided by Peace of Mind Healthcare)
– Catered dinner for six in Youville’s garden atrium
– Tandem skydiving jump (provided by Jumptown located in Orange, MA)
– Mink coat
– Treadmill (provided by HRDQ in King of Prussia, PA)
– Vacuum cleaner

It’s extremely critical that we continue on this upward trend as we only have about a month left to reach our goal! Additionally, our professor recently announced that the class will vote on the best project at the end of the semester and the Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School would have lunch with the winning team. If it were up to me, I would love nothing more than to have the Dean dine with the residents of Youville, but we really need your continued support to help us get there. So please keep the offers coming in and remember that we really need to trade something in return for whatever you are offering, so if you don’t see something of interest to you, please try and give us an idea of what you are hoping to receive in return. It will help us strategize current and future trades.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The Trading Team

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