Contribute to the Yale Club of Hartford


We welcome alumni from throughout our region to contribute to what the Yale Club of Hartford does by volunteering, submitting ideas, and/or donating.

Volunteer

There are many ways you can help! We welcome your participation. Here are some volunteer opportunities where we are seeking help from our fellow alumni:

  • Alumni to interview local applicants to Yale College (Alumni Schools Committee)

  • Events Committee chair

  • Membership Committee chair 

  • Event leaders/helpers 

  • Photographers (to snap photos at YCH events)

  • Website helpers 

  • Investment Committee member (someone with financial and/or investment expertise)

  • Copywriters to help promote Club events

Submit Ideas

You’re a Yalie… We know you’re brimming with great ideas! Please help us by sending concepts for events you’d like the Club to host—or stimulating speakers or speaker topics we should present.

Donate

For the Club to achieve its many worthy goals, philanthropy is essential.

Please consider supplementing your annual Club dues with a gift—at any level—to help sustain and expand our vital, student-focused initiatives as well as support other Club activities.

We encourage unrestricted gifts, as they give us the flexibility to support the priorities and funding requirements of the Club. In recent years, most contributions have been directed to the summer internship program. Alternatively, if you wish to support a specific activity with a gift, please contact us.

YCH giving clubs include:

  • Nathan Hale Club ($1,000+)

  • President’s Club ($500-$999)

  • Yale-Hartford Club ($250-$499)

  • Capital City Club ($100-$249)

We are grateful for your support!

The Club is able to accept gifts of cash, publicly-traded securities, grants from donor-advised funds (e.g., Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund and Hartford Foundation for Public Giving), qualified IRA contributions, bequests, and other planned gifts. Please contact us with any questions.

Charitable Funds of the Club

Robert T. Jackson Fund

The Yale Club of Hartford created the Jackson Fund in memory of Robert T. Jackson ’39, a former president of the Phoenix Insurance Company.

The Jackson Fund’s purpose is twofold: to (1) provide scholarship aid and (2) encourage students to attend college.

Initially, the fund focused on encouraging qualified but disadvantaged students from the region to apply to Yale and supported programming to train inner-city students in test-taking skills.

More recently, the Club has used income from the Jackson Fund to underwrite summer internships for incoming Yale freshmen who live in greater Hartford.

Luncheon / Speaker Fund

This fund supports luncheons and other events, including the annual meeting.

Scholarship Fund

Income from this fund is used for grants to Yale for its scholarship fund. We generally designate as “Yale Club and Scholarship Foundation of Hartford Scholars” all Hartford-area undergraduates receiving scholarships. This is typically about 20 students each year.


Frank O.H. Williams Summer Fellowship Fund

This fund supports summer internships.


Yale Book Award Fund

This fund supports the Yale Book Awards.

Your Giving History

We can quickly share a summary with you of your recent giving to the Yale Club of Hartford, including giving for dues, donations, and payments for our events and programming. This info can be helpful to see your total giving in a particular year, to find out if you are current on dues, and much more. Click Here to Lookup Your Giving History.