Additional Community and Volunteer Involvement
In addition to those contributions already cited, Harber’s community involvement has included fundraising for the University of Colorado, serving as the first president and chairman of the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre of Colorado, working as a Volunteer Probation Counselor for the City and County Courts of Denver, and serving on the board of directors of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra.
Harber was co-director of the Chicano Film Project, which produced the film, Los Inmigrantes. He has worked as a volunteer for ECO-CYCLE and as a Relief House Parent for Attention Homes, an alternative to jail for young offenders.
Three decades ago, Harber was the first (and then only) male ever elected to the board of directors of the Boulder County Women's Resource Center and for decades has been a strong proponent of equal rights for women.
Harber has served on the Accountability Committee for his daughter’s public school, Peak to Peak, and has worked as a volunteer serving food in the school’s cafeteria.
During the time he had been registered as an Investment Adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Harber extensively donated his financial and tax advisory services to men and women starting businesses as well as to charitable organizations on a pro bono basis. He continues to informally advise many groups today, also at no charge.
Harber pioneered the vision for the Golden Run community in Erie, Colorado --- a zero net energy, zero net waste, environmentally sustainable, Climate Change-sensitive standalone community --- as an example of a modified New Urbanism development imaginatively designed to create a walkable, economically sustainable, environmentally friendly multi-generational neighborhood. Golden Run’s design focuses on the needs of mature adults, senior citizens in their later years, young families, the disabled, and people requiring special care levels. The concept is to create a community where people can live, work, play, recreate, shop, and enjoy life together --- and all in an ecologically sound manner.
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