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YALE ALUMNI NONPROFIT ALLIANCE
YANA GLOBAL NEWSLETTER
WINTER 2018
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FASTER & FARTHER IN 2019
Sending warm greetings to all alumni and friends, as YANA enters its 8th year! Whenever I'm thinking about our ongoing challenge to scale collective impact, I'm reminded of this timeless African proverb:
If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together.
YANA's work is continually fueled by 'going together' with several dedicated organizations within the YAA. For example: From 1stGenYale, we've gained a deeper understanding of how to connect students and alums in meaningful ways. From the Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, we are better equipped to combat unconscious bias. And from Yale in Hollywood's conferences in NY and LA, we've learned the emotional impact and power of big, bold events.
Here's to 2019, and may it be another year full of collaboration - as we continue to go faster and farther together!
With gratitude,
Ken Inadomi '76, YANA Founding Chair
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YANA ACROSS THE GLOBE
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MEMBERSHIP WITH YANA & HELPING US GROW
2 out of every 3 Yale alumni are involved in social impact - whether they're board members, executive directors, practitioners, or volunteers - representing a population of over 110,000 alumni around the world.
We envision a global community that engages
all
alumni and friends of Yale in advancing social change.
A six-time winner of the Yale Board of Governors Award since our founding in 2011, we have grown into a network of over 5,000 - with 9 chapters on 3 continents: the Bay Area, Colorado, Europe, India, New England, New York, Seattle, Texas, and Washington DC.
Working Together, Giving Back, Changing Lives.
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YANA is entirely volunteer-led; and we rely on the generosity of our members and those who believe in social good to support our inspiring programs.
INTERESTED IN STARTING A YANA CHAPTER?
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YANA GETS SOCIAL
Check out our pages
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REPRESENT YANA WITH A T-SHIRT!
Looking for a fresh addition to your wardrobe? Grab a
beautiful YANA t-shirt (2 styles and 2 colors) at an upcoming chapter meeting or event!
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2019 REUNION PROGRAM
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YALE SOM
PHILANTHROPHY CONFERENCE
Attending the Feb. 22 Conference? Drop by the YANA Table and say hello!
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YANA WEBINAR SERIES
Join Yale alumni experts, as we explore the dynamic and rapidly-evolving facets of the social impact sector. Each session will be 1-hour: a 40-minute presentation, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A.
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YANA-DWIGHT HALL
SUMMER
FELLOWSHIP: IMPACT & UPDATES
The YANA-Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship Program supports Yale
undergraduates pursuing nonprofit fellowships.
This program is designed to complement the
Domestic Summer Award Fellowships
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announced in 2017 by Yale College Dean, Marvin Chun. In 2018, the Summer Fellowship provided funding to Olivia Paschal '18 and Dasia Moore '18, who founded Go South, a program based in Savannah, Georgia that seeks to connect Yale students and alumni to Southern nonprofits.
Dasia's fellowship experience inspired her to further expand her involvement with YANA. L
earn about our 2018 Fellows below, and
read a letter from Dasia.
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YANA WINS 6TH CONSECUTIVE YAA BOARD OF GOVERNORS EXCELLENCE AWARD!
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Lou Martarano, Rachel Littman,
and Ken Inadomi
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YANA has received an unprecedented 6th Consecutive Excellence Award from the YAA Board of Governors! This award - Outstanding SIG Event - celebrates
YANA's
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Event in February 2018, featuring Elizabeth Alexander '84. We're thrilled that YANA's programming has now been recognized for two years in a row!
The event highlighted the missions of YANA, the YAA, and Yale: in unifying and organizing the Yale social impact community and leveraging it for the greater common good; conveying the important values of Yale (including service and social justice) from one generation to the next; and "inspiring the minds that inspire the world."
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YANA NEAR YOU: UPCOMING EVENTS
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YANA MEMBERS APPRECIATION DINNER
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On Oct. 25, YANA Members gathered at Fort Tyron Park's New Leaf Restaurant to celebrate another year of growth and accomplishment. It was an evening to catch up and reflect on how far YANA has come in its nearly eight-year history and toast to the service of those who are leading some of our most transformative initiatives.
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On Oct. 30, YANA Bay Area hosted its 2018-19 kickoff event: "How a Climate Nonprofit Built Its Strategic Plan," from Maura Fallon-McNight of The Business Council on Climate Change
and Jonathan Becker MC '87 of This Team Works
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Joe DeNicola, Ken Inadomi,
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On Nov. 11, the YANA Board hosted a brunch to celebrate our 4 outgoing members, and to welcome 5 newly elected members!
Many thanks to Eileen Egan MPH '83, Joe DeNicola '86, F&ES '96, Frank Raffaele '95, and Richard Reiss '81 for their incredible dedication to YANA. We are delighted to welcome Alison Gardy '88, Demetris Giannoulis '94, Molly James DIV '05, Dasia Moore '18, and James Wendorf '73 to the Board.
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NONPROFIT BOARD LUNCH & LEARN
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On Nov. 28, YANA DC hosted a lunch and learn discussion focusing on nonprofit board membership. Participants included alums of several Yale schools working in a variety of roles and industries. We were joined by representatives of the Compass On Board
program and
discussed issues around board service - including key questions to ask before joining a board, issues to look out for, and ways to identify board openings.
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On Dec. 9,
YANA Houston
members Kateri Benoit SOM '05, Victoria Chen SOM '17, Jonathan Jerke Grad '10 and wife Debb Christopoulos, Jesse Givens '01, Rachel Littman '91, Mimi Tsai '91, Grad '94, and David Yu '13 attended the inaugural YANA Houston get-together. Great ideas and delicious food were enjoyed by all!
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NEW YORK POST-HOLIDAY PARTY
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On Jan. 15, members of YANA New York reunited and toasted a terrific start to the new year at our 2019 Post-Holiday Party. Hosted at Thalassa Restaurant in TriBeCa, attendees enjoyed wine, Mediterranean appetizers, and stimulating conversation between alumni and friends, encompassing an array of interests across the social impact sector.
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YALE COMMUNITY CONNECT
Current YC Connect Opportunities
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Click here
to sign up for more information about this exciting YANA initiative!
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RECENT YC CONNECT HIGHLIGHTS
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After-School Tutoring at MS54
YC Connect volunteers enabled the launch of the 6th Grade Academy pilot program, which has rapidly expanded and is now evolving into a sustainable effort that engages its
own student, parent and alumni body as tutors. Academy teachers are excited to report that students who have been tutored in the program (~2x/week) have shown noticeable improvement in classroom participation and graded assignments.
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Darian Marcel Parker PhD '13
found opportunities to volunteer regularly with Harlem Children's Zone and Mosaic Prep Academy as a tutor, an experience he's found tremendously rewarding:
"In meeting with them from week-to-week, I feel that I have benefited just as much as I've contributed. For, in my helping them articulate their visions for their lives, they have helped me to boldly reclaim my own."
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Mulchfest 2019
On Jan. 13, Yale Alumni joined Stanford Alumni in the NYC holiday tradition of recycling Christmas trees and wreaths, by processing them into mulch during Prospect Park's Annual Mulchfest
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The trees were fed into a chipper, and the resulting mulch was distributed to the public for use in their gardens or as a room freshener. The remainder was spread at the base of trees around the park to facilitate growth. Volunteers from both groups enjoyed a meal at The Adirondack afterward!
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TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE
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October's New York Monthly Meeting's Spotlight featured Kathy Soll, Founder & CEO of Teens For Food Justice. This nonprofit, which won YANA's 2014 Social Enterprise Competition, applies hydroponic urban farming techniques to ensure equitable access to healthy, fresh, and affordable food.
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SOSTENICA
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November's New York Monthly Meeting's Spotlight featured Joe DeNicola '86, '96 F&ES, YANA Board Treasurer, and Executive Director of SosteNica: a nonprofit that integrates educational and environmental programs with financial services to address the alleviation of poverty in Nicaragua.
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YANA is a 6-Time Winner of the Yale Board of Governors Excellence Award
Working Together, Giving Back, Changing Lives
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We envision a global community that engages
all alumni and friends of Yale in advancing social change
. We advance this mission by focusing on 3 essential processes that drive our work: Convening, Collaborating, and Connecting.
YANA Newsletter:
Editor-in-Chief: Liana Epstein |
Editorial Board: Grace Hsieh, Lou Martarano |
Contributors: Joe DeNicola, Alison Gardy,
Ken Inadomi
, Yang Li,
Rachel Littman, Dasia Moore, Kathy Soll
Chapters
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Bay Area
Jeanne Marecek GSAS
Tim Sullivan '72
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Colorado
Michael Mazer '78
Rachel Tibbetts '99
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Europe
Rachel Littman '91 or Ken Inadomi '76
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India
Ragini Luthra '16
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New England
Robin Noble `91
John Woyke `63 LLB `67
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New York
Ken Inadomi '76
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Seattle
Jennifer Stout' 03
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Texas
Jennifer Wester '16 (Dallas)
Rachel Littman '91 (Houston)
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Washington DC
Laura Kadetsky '99
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