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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.
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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. We invite you to browse the appropriate gateway to learn more about specific opportunities.
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BOLD—Bulldogs Of the Last Decade

If you are one of the 13,000 members in the Yale College Classes of 2008–2017, you are a member of BOLD, Bulldogs Of the Last Decade, and you play a vital role in the success and growth of Yale College.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Corporate and Foundation Giving

The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations seeks to establish strategic partnerships with corporations to create mutually beneficial relationships between industry and Yale University. Foundations are a driving force behind much of the research and many of the programs that take place on campuses today, and this is especially true at Yale.
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Volunteers

Many alumni, friends, and Yale College parents serve as volunteers on behalf of the university in a range of roles. Approximately 3,000 are active participants in Yale’s fundraising efforts and are a critical factor in their success. 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.