Events Calendar

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G.R.O.W.E.R.S., Inc. @ Greenbrier offers a multi-path approach to providing horticultural education, employment opportunities and therapy for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. Register and join us any time between 9 a.m. and noon. This event is co-sponsored by the DiversAbility at Yale (DAY) Affinity Group and the Future Leaders of Yale (FLY) Affinity Group.
 
Volunteers will help with watering, planting, and other gardening tasks. Children of all ages are welcome to participate.
 
Please bring your own garden/work gloves, water bottles, clothing layers, sun protection and wear clothes that can get dirty.

Garden tools will be provided, although you are welcome to bring your own. 

Volunteers are invited to gather for a picnic lunch in the park at noon. Bring your own lunch (coolers provided for storage) and DAY will supply water, drinks, and snacks!
 
Street parking is available on Cliff Street. Enter the gate; greenhouses are right inside the gate.

Please share this with friends, family, and colleagues; everyone is welcome to participate. We do ask that all volunteers register in advance, as the number of volunteers for this event is capped at 15. 

Who's Coming?

Contact: Jamaal Thomas

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Join fellow Yalies and other members of the community to install free smoke alarms and share safety information in this at-risk community.  We will work in small groups--under the aegis of the Red Cross--to visit homes, install smoke alarms, and provide home fire safety education to residents. Training will be provided on site so previous experience is not needed.

The event will be a fun day of reaching out to neighbors and making the community safer. When everyone has arrived, there will be a continental breakfast, you will get to choose what role you would like to do and be provided with on-site training. The team will receive supplies such as smoke alarms, tools, educational materials, and a map of your route for the day. Then it's time to head out!

Most of your day will be spent visiting homes, installing smoke alarms, and providing home fire safety education to residents. You may be given scheduled appointments at particular homes on your route, or you may be knocking on doors to offer to install free smoke alarms, or a combination of both. In either case, you will be providing a valuable service to your community and helping to save lives. We’ll finish the day with lunch at the firehouse and a tally of how many homes were made safer.

Families welcome! Children under 13 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Did you know home fires claim seven lives every day--or thousands of lives per year?  Having working smoke alarms can cut the risk of death by half!

Contact: Lauren Harris '14

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Join the Yale Club of the Palm Beaches to volunteer with the Boca Helping Hands in their "Backpacks Program" to help provide weekend meal kits to elementary school students facing food insecurity across south Palm Beach County. Please join us for this important initiative and help us give back to our local community!

• There is no minimum age, but the project is not well-suited for small children. All volunteers under the age of 18 must have a parent/guardian signature on the waiver provided in the registration.
• Please wear comfortable clothes and closed-toe shoes (e.g., sneakers).
• Parking is available in the Justin D. Webb Training Center lot across the street. 

Volunteer limit is 15 people. If you sign up and can no longer attend, please notify us in order to make space for others.

Contact: Chloe Yee '18, '19 MPH

Who's Coming?

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Paddle for the Cure is much more than a day of kayak/paddleboard races. You do not have to race to come. You can watch the races or browse the booths at the pavilion. Bring the whole family for live music, food, a silent auction, and children's activities.

No fee/donation is required to attend and any proceeds raised will benefit Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust (CART). Anyone who wishes to join the kayak race should contact Constance Spencer and she will sign you up for free!

Who's Coming?

Contact: Connie Spencer '82 M.Arch

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The Spring Housing Blitz organized by Interfaith Action of Central Texas is a one-day event during which Yalies join volunteers from other local organizations to paint and repair homes of senior citizens and disabled individuals who are living in deep poverty. The goal is to keep homeowners safe and help them remain in the homes and neighborhoods they love.

Volunteers will paint and do light repairs on a home. All materials will be supplied by iACT. Wear old clothes and closed-toed shoes. Lunch (pizza) will be provided by iACT, but bring your own drinks and snacks.

Who's Coming?

Contact: Deidre Dawson '85 MA, '86 MPhil, 'PhD

The Yale Club of Southern Arizona will observe Yale Day of Service by helping to box cans and packages of food for Southern Arizona families in need. We will work in an indoor, air-conditioned warehouse. Please note that the service involves physical assembly line work with other volunteers. Bathroom and coffee breaks will be available. 

Family and friends are welcome to participate, but please do not bring children or grandchildren under 16. We also ask that participants wear comfortable clothing and closed-toe shoes.

Contact: Jesse Smith '72, 520-850-9511

Spend a morning in the beautiful Catoctin Mountains helping Cunningham Falls State Park staff, park volunteers, and Friends of Cunningham Falls prepare for the summer season by participating in this annual spruce-up around the roadways and facilities found at the main park area near Hunting Creek Lake. It is a great opportunity to make a positive impact by helping out some of the hardest-working folks around--Maryland State Park staff.  

Please register using the link above by April 19.  We look forward to seeing you there.

What To Bring:

Dress for the weather.  Arrive prepared to work, wearing work boots, long pants, and long sleeves to protect your arms and legs.  Sturdy leather work gloves are also useful.  Be sure to bring water.  

For More Information:

For additional questions about the park, park events, or driving directions, please contact the CFSP volunteer coordinator Claudia Padilla.  

Who's Coming?

Contact: Karen Whitehair '91 MA

*This program has reached registration capacity. If you are registered and can no longer attend, please contact the host.*

Please join us on Earth Day to build an oyster shell bar, plant native grasses, and clean up the shoreline of Lassing Park! The oyster shell project involves shoveling fossilized shell into mesh bags, transporting the bags by boat and placing them on the shoreline to create a series of oyster bars. This project is an effort to restore lost habitat systems to the bay, prevent further erosion of the shoreline, and improve water quality through natural biological filtration. Additionally, we will be planting native grasses and picking up trash from the shoreline.

We will meet at 8:30 AM at the northern end of Lassing Park. 

Parking:
On the street along Beach Dr. It will be a busy morning, so you may have to park and walk a bit to get to the meeting location.

What to Wear/Bring:
Volunteers should wear long-sleeved shirts, clothing you don't mind getting wet and dirty, closed-toe shoes or water shoes, hat.  Please bring work gloves if you have them (they will provide used work gloves if needed), sunscreen, bugspray, and a water bottle (ice water will be provided to fill up your bottle). 

Who's Coming?

Contact: Anne Philpott Eason '86