| Community Outreach with The Yale Club of Boston |
| The Yale community has a strong tradition of serving our local community. Here you can explore some of our numerous programs: 1. Yale Club of Boston Community Service Fellowships 3. The Yale Book Award 4. The Yale Scholarship Trust 5. Spring Break Externships 6. Yale at Excel Academy |
| Community Service Fellowships The Yale Club of Boston has been an enthusiastic participant in the Community Service Fellowship program since the program's inception in 1989. As the AYA website out of New Haven discusses in greater detail, local alumni help identify non-profit agencies which can provide great service opportunities for Yale students. The club also takes responsibility for finding housing for the students and raising the $2850 stipend each fellow receives. Community Service Fellows are welcome to enjoy events organized by young alumni as well as general club events. Yalies of all ages have enjoyed meeting the Community Service Fellows and helping them explore the Boston area during their 8-week work assignment. Our most recent Fellows include: Antonio Ingram '11 (ES), Religious Studies Major Margaret Martinez '10 (PC), Psychology Major Sifan Liu '10 (MC), Political Science/Psychology Major Monica Lu '11 (MC), Undecided Tamique J. Ridgard '10 (MC), Psychology Major Marta Hodgkins-Sumner '10 (BC), English Major |
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| Yale Book Award Yale Club of Boston presents the Yale Book Award to an outstanding junior at select high schools in the Boston area. The award is an important part of Yale’s effort to attract outstanding students and, if nothing else, underlines Yale’s commitment to recognizing academic potential and personal integrity. Local alumni sponsor the awards through donations and often champion the award either in their town or their former high school. Last year over 100 books were presented. If you are interested in participating, please contact Richard Bowen, Community Outreach Chair, at rbowen@e-winslow.com. |
| Yale Scholarship Trust Founded in 1926, the Yale Scholarship Trust of Boston, as a separately organized arm of the Yale Club of Boston, is now an integral part of the Club Scholarship program nurtured by the Association of Yale Alumni. Along with similar organizations in New York City, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles/Orange County and San Francisco, our mission is to raise and garner our endowment in order to annually award grants to Yale College students from the greater Boston area. As an AYA Club Scholarship program entity, our awards do not supplement scholarships awarded to our recipients directly from Yale. Rather, the funds we award our recipients supplant scholarship monies each recipient would otherwise receive from Yale. The mission, in our own small way, is to assure the continuation of Yale’s needs-blind admissions policy. For the current academic year now ending, we awarded a total of $216,000 in scholarship funds to 22 Yale College students from the Boston area. This year’s total awards reflects a handsome increase over the $168,000 in awards made for the 2007-2008 academic year, and the $132,000 in awards we were able to make in the 2006-2007 academic year. The increased level of awards reflects the wisdom of our decision many years ago to allow our endowment to be managed by Yale as part of its endowment and reflects the fruits of the steady and skillful investment performance engendered by David Swenson at Yale. The Trust’s endowment, which is the product of the generosity of Boston area Yale graduates and members of the Yale Club of Boston over the years, was valued at just under $5.9 million as of June 30, 2008. We do not as yet have a report from New Haven as to the value of our assets as they are invested by Yale as of June 30, 2009, but one can predict that that value has been impacted by market performance over the past year. The amount available for distribution each year is determined by Yale’s 4% spending rule. In the past that rule has allowed for the growth in the value of our assets since Yale has achieved on our behalf investment returns far greater than that over the years. Undoubtedly Yale’s endowment has been impacted by the prevailing market conditions of the past year. |
| Spring Break Externships
One of the opportunities our Yale Club community sponsors, administers, and hosts, is the annual Spring Break externship. It's an opportunity for undergraduates to come up from New Have to shadow a volunteer alum in the workplace for one or both weeks of the spring vacation. Some Boston-area alums, Mark Wolf, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for Massachusetts, for example, have hosted one or even two undergraduates year after year. It's a unique opportunity for students who want to taste day-to-day life in a profession of their interest. On more than one occasion, the experience has informed career decisions. |
 Yale at Excel Academy Excel Academy is a charter school in East Boston (close to the MBTA Blue line) for 5th -8th graders. Most of the students are low income and the school is culturally diverse although most students are Hispanic. The students and teachers are terrific and have created a positive and winning environment. The students are succeeding! Yale graduates initially started tutoring on the first Yale Day of Service in 2009 and participated throughout the next academic year. Join other Yalies as tutors in this well-organized Saturday morning program. Sessions are from 9:30 - 12:00 and run for four week intervals. To sign up contact Esteban Tapetillo. |