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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.

Corporate alliances build upon complementary strengths and needs in recruitment/hiring, financial aid for students, internships, research collaborations, faculty/industry consultations, lectureships and technology transfer.

Foundations are a driving force behind much of the research and many of the programs that take place at Yale. Foundation Relations professionals identify opportunities—programs, research activities, capital projects, fellowship needs, and other elements of University life—that parallel foundation giving priorities.

Philanthropic giving opportunities

The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations opens portals to the University by providing access to Yale's world-class faculty, students, cutting-edge technologies, and other resources. There are many ways to support Yale's mission to provide students with the best education possible, such as:

Scholarships
Fellowships
Faculty chairs
Capital improvements and facilities
Program and research grants
Equipment
In-kind gifts
Employee matching gift programs

We invite corporations and foundations to review funding activities that may lead to cutting-edge technological advantages through support of the Yale's schools, libraries, galleries, and research initiatives

Recruitment

A particularly fruitful area of corporate/University interaction is the hiring of Yale graduates. Further information is available at the following sites:

An excellent way to establish early links with students is through corporate internships.

Research collaborations

Yale has a long tradition of first-class research in the sciences and humanities. Eighteen researchers with Yale ties have won the Nobel Prize, and 60 current faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences. A recent survey of America's top research universities conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information ranked Yale fourth in terms of the number of research papers cited by scientists worldwide.

The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations links corporations and foundations with Yale faculty and administrators in key areas of mutual research interest. Interactions occur in the form of grants, contracts, faculty consultations, internships and clinical trials. The office also assists in the area of sponsored research together with the Office of Cooperative Research—which manages the University's intellectual assets and establishes commercial partnerships—and the Office of Grant and Contract Administration.

We also assist in making additional resources of the University available to supporters, such as faculty consultations, executive education programs, participation in conferences, colloquia and symposia, the University's museums and libraries.