Supporters

Yale has long enjoyed generous and loyal support from alumni, parents, friends, students, corporations, and foundations. Please browse the appropriate gateway to learn more about the many ways you can support the University.


	Alumni Alumni—of Yale College, the Graduate School, and Yale’s professional schools—are the University's most loyal and consistent supporters. Alumni can choose many ways to support Yale. Read more
	Parents Parents know what a Yale education can mean in a young person's life. They also appreciate the direct impact that gifts exert on the quality of student life and learning. Read more
	Friends Yale has always received help and encouragement from its extraordinary friends, a diverse group that included Elihu Yale in 1718 and thousands over the years. Friends can choose to support a wide range of Yale projects, programs, and departments. Read more
	Students Many students in Yale College, in the Graduate School, and in the professional schools begin their philantrhopic giving to Yale while they are still enrolled. Read more
	Grateful Patients Today, Yale is building on its legacy of integrating unsurpassed clinical care and groundbreaking research to advance the art and science of medicine. We invite your support. Read more
	Shared Interest Groups Shared interest groups provide opportunities for alumni to connect and reconnect to the University based on common vocations, avocations, or student activities or associations while at Yale. Read more
	Corporations & Foundations The Yale Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations seeks to establish strategic partnerships with corporations and foster links between the University and foundations to create mutually beneficial relationships. Read more
	Volunteers Volunteers are involved with most aspects of giving to Yale, whether as Annual Giving Volunteers, members of Reunion Gift Committees, Parent Volunteers, or serving on the advisory boards and committees of the professional schools. Read more