Serve on the Board of the Yale Club!Are you interested in serving on the Yale Club of Washington, DC's Board of Directors? The Board actively invites all interested local alumni to consider running for the Club's Board of Directors. Alumni are also welcome to nominate other alumni! Board members represent the interests of alumni, support and enhance existing Club programs, and help foster innovative ways to facilitate interaction between alumni throughout the broader Washington and Yale communities. The position requires ongoing engagement with fellow Directors, alumni, and Club staff throughout the year. The Board consists of 15 individuals, who are Members of the Yale Club and who serve three-year terms. To learn more about our current Board of Directors, please click here. Directors are expected to be very involved including: attending monthly virtual lunch meetings and quarterly dinner meetings in downtown Washington; planning, executing, and/or supporting at least two programs per year; participating with Club Committees and projects; and attending Club functions. The required annual Director Contribution Fee from prior years ($200) has been eliminated for the upcoming fiscal year, however Directors may be expected to pay for their meeting meals in future years. Our Board values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to represent our diverse membership, and we strongly encourage applications from members with a wide spectrum of backgrounds, identities, cultures, interests, skills, and experiences. We also would like to emphasize that alumni from Yale College and ALL Yale professional and graduate schools are welcome to run! In addition, we welcome alumni from all areas within the greater Washington, DC area, even those who do not live in and close to the city. We are eager to welcome new Board members and volunteers who can add new perspectives to our current team. If you are interested in being considered for this important position, please complete the following form. All submissions must be complete by April 28, 2023 to be considered. Questions? Contact Yale Club of Washington, DC. Volunteer with the Yale Day of Service this Spring!The 15th annual Yale Day of Service is coming up, and there are lots of ways to get involved. Projects will take place on May 13 as well as other dates throughout the spring! Join us! Become a Site Coordinator We are seeking site coordinators to help out with liaising with nonprofit partner organizations, and serving as on-site coordinators day of for groups of Yale volunteers. The Yale Club will help get the sites set up in advance and then hand them off to site coordinators to communicate with the nonprofit and Yale volunteers in the lead-up to and day of the event. To learn more, or to sign up, contact Maria Vera Whelan ([email protected]). Organize a Yale Day of Service Project Have a service project or organization in mind that you’d like to set up and coordinate start to finish (including day of)? It’s simple: Just reach out to Maria Vera Whelan ([email protected]), then submit your project here: https://alumni.yale.edu/submit-event. Make sure you include “Yale Day of Service” in the event title, Yale Club of Washington, D.C. under “Organization,” input yaledayofservice.org for the URL, and select “Service” for the event category. Projects can take place on May 13, or anytime this spring. Tips for organizing a project can be found here. Volunteer for an Existing Service Project Sites are starting to get confirmed and we’re seeking volunteers for each! Here’s the line-up so far:
Stay tuned for more details on this year’s Yale Day of Service in the near future! Yale Club of DC Virtual Event![]()
Yalies Taking Action to Address the Climate Crisis Wednesday, April 26, 2023 6:30-7:30pm Engaging discussion on tangible actions taken by Yalies to address the climate crisis and manage climate anxiety. The speakers will discuss their involvement in leading commercial opportunities targeted at addressing the crisis as well as research efforts underway by Yalies to develop solutions. 1st Gen Yale Alumni Conference 2023 -"Being the First, but Not the Last"Celebrate Our Heritage, Experiences, and Accomplishments as Trailblazing Yalies!Friday, April 28 - Sunday, April 30
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FROM THE YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC PRESIDENTDear fellow alumni, I write to share an update on the Club's programming plans for the fiscal year. We will continue to host monthly lectures, virtually for now, and are excited to share plans to broaden the event topic variety offered. We intend to do so by increasing both the number and subject area of our offerings. In addition to educational programming, we aim to increase the number of events featuring faculty from Yale College as well as faculty from Yale graduate and professional schools. We also plan to increase the number of panel events and see this as a key way to engage with material by highlighting the multidimensionality of the issue under discussion. It is our hope to promote valuable connections between the subject matter experts with one another, and with the audience. One key takeaway from these past months of virtual events is our membership's strong desire to engage with each other and the content during event discussions. To further this objective, we will host more interactive sessions and use virtual "break-out" rooms whenever feasible to foster discussion in a more intimate setting. We see this as a way to create community, which stands as a bedrock principal of our Club's purpose and stated goals. Our planned expansion of the variety of programming types offered will include heritage month events, professional development and Yale alumni career stories, and instructional programming. Lastly, we are engaging with the greater Yale community to provide artistic programming content. More information will be coming out soon on this initiative! Thank you for being the best part of the Yale Club of Washington, D.C. Please reach out to me directly if you have suggestions for programming. Hope to see you soon "virtually" in one of our programs! Lauren Harris, '14, President |
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