Harley’s commitment to empowerment through education has led him to sole financial supporter of a Cambodian orphanage for over 16 years. In 2018, Harley built the Children First Center located near Phnom Penh. In Harley’s school, underprivileged children receive education and are mentored until they graduate college. Harley has put 30 children through college. Harley also sponsors an English language center in Siem Reap that offers greater prospects for the children to advance educationally.

Harley serves in the board of Advisors of Yale University’s School of Management. Harley is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Columbia University’s Graduate School of International and Public Affairs. Harley also serves in the boards of foreign policy thinktanks including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Council member of the Brookings Institution.

Harley was appointed by President George W Bush to serve as a member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad and has been reappointed by every president since. In this role, Harley personally spearheaded efforts that uncovered over 20 mass graves across Poland of Jews massacred by Germans from September 1939 and March 1942, two years prior to the Holocaust. Harley was personally responsible for erecting 20 memorials in Polish, English and Hebrew in which both Rabbis and Priests officiated at the memorial service and school children adopted gravesites to maintain. This led Harley to be an executive-producer on an award-winning documentary that appeared on PBS entitled ‘Safeguarding Memory: Commemorating Jewish Mass Graves in Poland’, on mass graves in Poland.