On Saturday, May 12, more than 4,000 Yale alumni, staff, students, family, and friends will make a difference in their local communities across the United States and around the world as part of the fourth global Yale Day of Service.
Service for society is a core tradition at Yale, both among students in New Haven and with generations of alumni and friends around the country and across the globe. The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) has been organizing and supporting this worldwide mission with the annual day of service since 2009.
This year, Yale alumni will gather in service at hundreds of sites. Many of these projects are catalysts for ongoing community service by alumni throughout the year. All Yale students, staff, faculty, family, and friends are invited to participate. Site and registration information can be found online at www.yaledayofservice.org.
The program includes work with community partners in 36 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, as well as sites in Nigeria, Switzerland, Japan, China, India, the Netherlands, Canada, Israel, Australia, Germany, Cameroon, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ghana, and the Netherlands. Examples of a few of the nearly 200 sites include:
- In the Dominican Republic, volunteers will work with the Saint George School in Santo Domingo and Yspaniola, a Yale student organization-turned-nonprofit that helps marginalized Batey communities of Dominicans and Haitians in the Dominican Republic empower themselves through university scholarships, leadership training and community development.
- Among the many sites in greater Los Angeles, the Yale Club of Southern California will be registering people in the Be the Match national bone marrow registry as part of “Mandi’s Challenge” in honor of Mandi Schwartz '10 (1988-2011).
- Volunteers in New Haven will volunteer at East Rock Park, in addition to work at a dozen other sites.
- The Yale Club of Boston’s sites include wok with The Harvest Food Pantry in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a nonprofit that offers a fully-stocked clothes closet and gives away close to two tons of free food a month.
YaleNews | Global Yale Day of Service a catalyst for Yalies giving back wherever they live
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