Friends of Yale

Yale’s impact on the world touches the lives of many. Friends of Yale are unaffiliated members of the Yale community who believe in the work of the university and choose to invest in its promise. A gift to Yale is a catalyst for progress and change that can benefit everyone.

With the support of donors, Yale builds year after year on its signature strengths. As a result, we have an enduring capacity to make a positive difference in areas that matter.

• Undergraduate education at Yale is superlative. Our emphasis on liberal arts education produces alumni who excel as agile thinkers, lifelong learners, and engaged citizens.
• With four of the nation’s best art schools—spanning architecture, art, drama, and music—along with world-class collections and eminence in conservation science, Yale makes unrivaled contributions to arts and culture.
• Excellence across divinity, law, social sciences, and global affairs positions Yale to address a range of problems facing society, balancing humane values with data-based solutions and practical policy ideas.
• Eminence across the physical, biological, and biomedical sciences means that Yale leads in basic research and discovery. And because we are deeply invested in engineering, applied science, and a culture of innovation, ideas born here can be quickly translated into solutions.
• Yale’s schools of medicine, nursing, and public health expand basic knowledge, deliver clinical care, and help to create health systems that cure disease and improve lives around the world.

To advance an area that aligns with your interests, please consider a gift that builds on Yale’s recognized excellence. You may choose to support faculty, students, collections, campus, or academic programming in any area of the university.