Events Calendar

  • Thursday 5/29/25

    • May 29 – Jun 8
      Scotland & Norway
      Add to Calendar 2025-05-29T00:00:00 2025-06-08T00:00:00 America/New_York Yale Alumni Academy | Scotland and Norway: Highlands, Islands, and Fjords

      Join in an exploration of the magnificent landscapes, remote islands, ancient settlements, and idyllic villages of Norway and northern Scotland, cruising during cruising during the peak of spring, with long days of bright-green scenery speckled with blooming flowers and rushing waterfalls in the fjords from snow melting in the mountains. This varied and balanced itinerary, from Inverness to the Orkney Islands, then along the Norwegian Coast above the Arctic Circle, combines the wonders of the natural world with the historical and cultural highlights of the area.

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    • May 29, 2025
      Starts at 7:00PM ET
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2025-05-29T19:00:00 2025-05-29T19:00:00 America/New_York 1stGenYale presents ‘Career Disruption: How To Best Prepare For A Potential Layoff’

      With major disruptions in today's job market, 1stGenYale alumni created this webinar to discuss the impact of potential job cuts or loss to help Yale alumni who might be dislocated. Join our program with Lynn Berger, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and Certified Career Counselor. Michael Watson '81, Employee Experience Advisor, Port Authority of NY & NJ. will serve as moderator.

      All Yale alumni are invited to participate. You do not need to be first-gen or come from a low-income background.

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    • May 29
      8:00PM – 9:00PM ET
      Online
      Add to Calendar 2025-05-29T20:00:00 2025-05-29T21:00:00 America/New_York Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) in Miami 2025: Learn More About Lotus House Women's Shelter

      Want to Learn More About the YASC in Miami 2025 Service Program?

      Join us for a conversation with Catherine McCulloch '84 and Danielle Morgan '00 MSN from YASC and Victoria Varela from Lotus House Women's Shelter, to learn more about our YASC's service trip to Miami in October to benefit the women, youth, and children of Miami. Sheltering 1,550+ women, youth and children annually, Lotus House is the largest women’s homeless shelter in the country. The organization provides shelter, resources, and multi-faceted, comprehensive supportive services to help their guests successfully exit the shelter system and lead lives of greater opportunity. 

      During this session, you will learn more about Lotus House and the projects we anticipate offering:

      • Halloween Preparation: organizing costumes, helping children select their costume, preparing candy bags, creating decorations using recycled materials.
      • Cleaning and Organization: working with the operations team to inventory essential supplies, cleaning common areas, organizing spaces.
      • Gardens: helping in the gardens with weeding, planting, cleaning.
      • After-school Activities: assisting with homework and tutoring, hosting a fun activity for the children.
      • Overtown Community Distribution: helping Lotus House set up, handing out items, cleaning up. 

      In addition to these projects, Lotus House is looking for help with:

      •  Hosting an activity: Arts & crafts, sewing, painting, dance, yoga, mediation for adults.
      •  Hosting a workshop: hosting a workshop for adults on financial literacy, job skills, customer service, emails, computer skills, etc. Other areas of need include literacy, mentoring, wellness, CV/workforce preparedness.

      If you are interested in this domestic service opportunity and would like to join us in October, this is a great opportunity to learn how you can make a difference, ask questions, and get involved.

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      Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) in Miami 2025: Learn More About Lotus House Women's Shelter
  • Friday 5/30/25

    • May 30
      5:30PM – 7:30PM ET
      Falmouth, MA
      Add to Calendar 2025-05-30T17:30:00 2025-05-30T19:30:00 America/New_York Yale Club of Cape Cod May Meet-Up Join fellow Elis for informal conversation, and beverages/munchies of your preference. No speaker, no program, no asks; just fun with people you have a lot in common with! Falmouth, MA — 311 Gifford Street false
  • Saturday 5/31/25

    • May 31
      8:30AM – 1:30PM ET
      Grand Rapids, MI
      Add to Calendar 2025-05-31T08:30:00 2025-05-31T13:30:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: MI, Grand Rapids-Ramp Build with Home Repair Services We invite you to join in partnering with Home Repair Services to build an access ramp for a vulnerable member of the Grand Rapids/Kent County community. Home Repair Services (see HRS) is a non-profit whose mission is to ""strengthen vulnerable Kent County homeowners because strong homeowners build strong communities."" Through the HRS Repair Program, qualified homeowners can receive minor home repairs and accessibility modifications (ramps, bathrooms, etc.) for little to no cost. Volunteers on this ramp build will help frame the ramp, attach deck boards, and mount railings. No prior carpentry experience is required. Home Repair Services will supply all the tools and know-how! Please RSVP as soon as possible to yalewestmichigan@gmail.com. Maximum 10 volunteers. Contact Tim Liang timliang88@gmail.com with questions false
    • May 31
      9:00AM – 12:00PM ET
      Oriole Grove, Lake County Forest Preserves
      Add to Calendar 2025-05-31T09:00:00 2025-05-31T12:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: IL, Oriole Grove - Lake Bluff ECO project for LCFP Please wear long sleeves, long pants, long socks and boots.  Bring work gloves, hats, and water bottles. Sunscreen and bug spray are also recommended. Location: 203 MacLaren Lane(across the street from this home will be entrance to Oriole Grove) Oriole Grove, Lake County Forest Preserves — 203 MacLaren Lane false
    • May 31
      11:00AM – 2:00PM ET
      Gwendolyn Brooks Park
      Add to Calendar 2025-05-31T11:00:00 2025-05-31T14:00:00 America/New_York Yale Day of Service: IL, Chicago- Tree Care and Poetry Workshop To infuse society with radical hope, volunteers will tend trees at Gwendolyn Brooks Park and The Oracle of Bronzeville monument to the first black, woman, and writer in Chicago Park. Each participant is invited to write a poem during the Poetry Workshop led by acclaimed poet, Kira Tucker, and Poet Laureate of Highland Park, Laura Joyce Hubbard. After tree care, poems will be written at Little Black Pearl’s Carver 47 Café’ to perpetuate the teachings of Gwendolyn Brooks. Please bring a water bottle and garden gloves, ride your bike, carpool, or take public transportation to our celebration of Earth Day. Bring lunch money for Carver 47 Café Gwendolyn Brooks Park — 4542 South Greenwood Avenue false
  • Sunday 6/1/25

    • Jun 1, 2025
      Starts at 11:00AM ET
      Minneapolis, MN
      Add to Calendar 2025-06-01T11:00:00 2025-06-01T11:00:00 America/New_York Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest Talk and Gallery Tour with ‘Giants’ Featured Artist and Yale Redpath Speaker Professor Meleko Mokgosi Join the Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest at the Minneapolis Institute of Art Sunday, June 1 with Meleko Mokgosi: Break bread with an art ‘Giant’ Grammy-winning superstar Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz, have made the Minneapolis Institute of Art only the third stop for “Giants", a groundbreaking exhibit drawn from their world-class art collection. While the exhibit boasts large canvasses from global Black artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, there is a whole room of 30-plus art pieces from Botswanan painter and Yale University art professor Meleko Mokgosi. Please join the Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest as we welcome Prof. Mokgosi as a Redpath speaker for a breakfast in Mia and a tour of “Giants.” 10 a.m. June 1, Mia. 10 am at MIA: Intimate Breakfast, Talk and Tour with Yale Redpath Speaker Prof. Mokgosi. Meet in the Wells Fargo Room. $60 includes tickets to "Giants" exhibit (BOLD Alums $20) 2 pm at MIA: Join a public talk in the Pillsbury Auditorium with Mokgosi and Casey Riley YC'93, Mia’s Chair of Global Contemporary Art. (Complimentary for YAANW members.) Questions? Contact yaanw@yaanw.org Minneapolis, MN — 2400 3rd Ave S false