Level of difficulty: Intermediate
Cost to attend: Free
Project: 7 Yale College Classes (2005-2011) together sponsor joint regional events in major cities. The events target alumni who are ~10-20 years out, and intended to spur cross-class engagement.
Level of difficulty: Advanced
Cost to attend: free
Award Winner: 2019
Project: A quarterly marketing piece (newsletter) produced by a shared interest group (the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance – YANA). Each issue is an approximately 7-page pdf document, produced in electronic-only format.
Level of difficulty: Advanced
Cost to attend: free
Award Winner: 2019
Project: The first annual report (marketing piece) produced by a shared interest group (the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance – YANA). This 32-page pdf document was produced in electronic-only format.
Level of difficulty: Basic (Each event is basic, but coordinating many is intermediate.)
Cost to attend: none (At museum, there was a low cost pay your own lunch at cafeteria.)
Award Winner: 2019
Project: Class leadership invited classmates to host parties in their homes across the country for other classmates in their area. Class leadership then helped coordinate 9 get-togethers, one of which was a museum tour. The Class (1985) branded the events “Preunions” to build attendance for its upcoming on-campus reunion in 2020. Continue reading Holding multiple pre-reunion Class get-togethers (“Preunions”)
Level of difficulty: Advanced
Cost to attend: Free
Award Winner: 2019
Project: This growing closed Facebook group (the Yale Alumni Facebook group) connects a large number of alumni. It helps them network, learn, share ideas about class, club, city, SIG, G&PS events, as well as engage and build community. Continue reading Creating a high-traffic, moderated, closed Facebook group
Level of difficulty: Intermediate
Cost to attend: Free for students (alumni pay for their own moderately priced dinners)
Project: A Yale Club in Shenzhen, China, annually arranges a day-trip for visiting Yale students along with local Chinese students, to leading Chinese companies. All the students are part of a regular exchange program between Yale and Lingnan (University) College in China, organized in part by Yale-China. Continue reading Yale Club abroad enhances Yale/China Student Exchange program
Level of difficulty: Advanced
Cost to attend: Free
Award Winner: 2019
Project: Organized by an ad hoc group of Robert Reed’s former students and colleagues, a series of day-long intensive drawing workshops, art lectures, panel discussions, and exhibits highlighted the art and teaching of Robert Reed, the first (and only) African American tenured by the Yale School of Art. Continue reading Day-long Workshops with Panel Discussions and Curated Exhibits
Level of difficulty: Intermediate
Cost to attend: None
Project: A Cleveland Yale Club project to interest and motivate kids in Cleveland’s inner city schools to become engineers. Many of these students know nothing about engineering careers. (The same idea of bringing alumni and their friends in a variety of jobs and careers to kids in schools in person, on the web and using YouTube also can be done.) Continue reading Club Project for City Schools
Level of difficulty: Intermediate
Cost to participate: None (moderate cost to purchase book)
Award Winner: 2010
Project: A book of artwork by members of the Class of 1970, published as part of its 40th Reunion in 2010. Reunion activities included a book signing event involving the artists. Continue reading Class Reunion Art Book
Level of difficulty: Advanced
Cost to participate: None (a Reunion is high cost, but nothing extra to attend this)
Award winner: 2010
Project: The Class of 1970 arranged enough “concerts” at its 40th Reunion in 2010, so that all classmates who were instrumental musicians had opportunities to perform. Some pre-reunion mini-concerts, held in several cities served as mini-reunions promoting the 40th Reunion. Continue reading “All” Class Musicians featured at a Class Reunion