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If you’ve ever seen the beautiful Pasadena Rose Parade floats on TV, you might be surprised that they were put together with the help of volunteers like you! Every year, thousands of volunteers hand-glue seeds, bark and flowers on the Pasadena Rose Bowl floats before their national tv debut. Now is your chance to be one of them!

The Yale Club of Los Angeles is gathering to decorate for Kaiser Permanente, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, or Donate Life floats! Come decorate a float in a fun, hands-on Day of Service activity with fellow alums in this annual Pasadena tradition while giving back to these important organizations.

Details:

• Family and friends 12 and older are welcome.
• Bring a pair of gardening or work gloves 
• Some snacks, water, and limited supplies will be provided; please bring your own as well

Contacts:
Marcos Luis '07

Tiffany Liao '22

Who's Coming?

Join us for a festive YASC Puerto Rican meal...prepared by you! In keeping with the holiday spirit, we are excited to come together and create the flavors of Puerto Rico, while sharing both the lovely community and food together!

Chef Danielle Morgan ’00 MSN and Cenita Cruz from Puerto Rico will demonstrate Guava Pastelitos (a delightful guava pastry born of Cuban roots and welcoming the tropical guava fruit to these hand held pastries), Coquito, or "little coconut," the holiday libation that traditionally celebrates the Christmas season but can be enjoyed throughout the year, and Pastelon, a Puerto Rican lasagna made with plantains and beef. You will receive the recipes and shopping list a few days before the event.

Cocinemos Puerto Rico!

Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) is delighted to announce Our Common Future, a collaborative effort with Amrita University alumni to develop and organize unique virtual service projects for Amrita alumni-led NGOs and under-served communities in India.

Join us as we celebrate our partnership and develop virtual mentoring, sharing, learning, and social opportunities for the YASC-Amrita alumni community. During the participatory session, you will hear about ways that Yale alumni can work with Amrita alumni and students in: business consulting and mentoring, education: virtual book clubs and teacher to teacher interactions, women’s empowerment and gender equity, healthcare for the poor, and other areas that you suggest. Don’t miss this opportunity to get involved and make a difference!

The Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) will work in the community of Cantera, an under-served and densely populated neighborhood in San Juan. Surrounded by bodies of water to the north, south and east, Cantera is a peninsula that stretches out into the contiguous San Jose and Corozos lagoons. The community was founded in the early 20th century by squatters from other parts of Puerto Rico. In the following decades, they successfully resisted all attempts to evict them. But the threat of eviction remains present (source IPS News). The community was heavily damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and earthquake in 2020, but the government has made significant strides to rebuild many areas.

YASC will partner once again with friends at Instituto Nueva Escuela (INE or New School Institute). Founded in 2008, INE is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving Puerto Rican students’ academic and socio-emotional outcomes through the implementation of Montessori education in the public school setting. It is currently operating in 53 schools and growing. Our service trip will focus on the Escuela Manuel Elzaburu y Vizcarrondo, a pre-k through sixth grade, public elementary school with 261 students, located in the heart of Cantera. The school was badly damaged by Hurricane Maria and the earthquake in 2020, but it has been recently renovated. Principal José Ricardo De Jesús and school staff are very much looking forward to hosting our group of volunteers in March 2023!

*This service project is closed*

Y2Y provides meals and overnight shelter for homeless young adults in the Cambridge area. Normally staffed by undergraduates, the shelter is always in need of volunteers during school breaks.

This March, YaleBoston has committed to provide volunteer coverage for a dinner shift on Thursday the 16th. Volunteers will prepare and serve meals, clean the space, and assist the shelter staff in other tasks as needed.

For more information visit the Y2Y website!

Contact: Brian Hoefling '12

*This service project is closed*

The Yale Club of Hartford is a sponsor of the event.  During the regional finals, Yale Club members will judge entries, and three teams of Club members will select the Club's Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, and David Bushnell awards.  The Yale Club awards will be presented in person on June 10, 2023, at the University of Connecticut.

Volunteers should register their employer as Yale Club of Hartford. The Connecticut Invention Convention will alert the organizer of members of Team Yale Club of Hartford.

Contact: Katherine McCormack '81 MPH

*This service project is closed*

CROS Gleaning is a program of CROS Ministries, in partnership with area food banks and other food distribution agencies in Palm Beach and Martin Counties. It is a food recovery strategy that allows produce that is below top market grade or unmarketable, but equally nutritious and beneficial to be harvested and distributed to the food insecure of Palm Beach and Martin Counties instead of being plowed back into the soil.  

Volunteers will be picking produce in the field.

Please note the following:
-The gleaning will be in the Boynton Beach/Delray Beach area.  The exact location will not be known until Monday, April 27.
-Volunteers must be age 5 or older; All gleaners still in elementary, middle or high school must be accompanied by a supervising adult. This includes high school students 18 years of age or older.
-All volunteers must sign the CROS Ministries liability waiver in addition to signing the YDOS paperwork.

What to Bring and Wear:
-Bring your own water, snacks, and gloves.
-It is often good to dress in layers. In the morning, it is likely to be colder and damp, wearing a long sleeve shirt and long pants is recommended. As it gets warmer, a short sleeve shirt may be better. Closed toed shoes are required. No flip flops or open toed or heel shoes are permitted.
-It is recommended that all gleaners wear hats in the field, apply sunscreen, and have bug spray handy in case insects are an issue.
-Please bring a three to five gallon pail with a handle if possible.  It is an excellent container to carry through the field. Fill it and empty it into the packing box or bin. CROS Ministries will have some on hand for you, but it would be best if we could bring our own.

-No pets please, it is not safe for them and a violation of food safety practices.

-Bathroom facilities are unavailable in most gleaning fields. It is advisable to use the bathroom prior to coming to the field.

-If the fields are too wet because of rain, the gleaning may be canceled.

Who's Coming?

Contact: Eli Giombi, '04 MBA

*This service project is closed*

Join the Women's Leadership Initiative in decorating cards for Citymeals recipients. Most of the meal recipients live alone, many rarely or never leave their homes. For them to get a personalized note or card can brighten their day. One simple act will make huge impact.

No advance sign-up for this volunteering event is needed. Just show up and decorate a card.

Contact: Kitty Koo-Tse '01 MS