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NAB functions by pairing college students with residents in local Alzheimer's/dementia care facilities for weekly one-on-one visits. These students work with both family members and staff to determine the best way to utilize their visits in order to learn more about the interests and lives of the residents, thereby forming connections that help combat the isolation often felt by residents in such facilities. Additionally, NAB chapters in the past have helped educate campus communities about AD, launched music therapy initiatives, and performed clinical research studies. For more information about NAB, please see www.alzbuddies.org.

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Bridges ESL provides free English language lessons to adult learners in the Greater New Haven area. Tutors develop personalized lessons to help meet students' language goals related to employment, education, citizenship, and daily life. Bridges ESL helps people acquire the English skills necessary to confidently navigate family, work, and community life in the U.S.

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Camp Kesem is a nationwide community, driven by passionate college student leaders, that supports children through and beyond their parent's cancer.

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By helping to manage the Dwight Hall endowment, we employ a modern approach to socially responsible investing (SRI) that aims to have a positive environmental and social impact while outperforming standard investment benchmarks. It is our hope that our portfolio will contribute to the success of Dwight Hall, inspire the creation of similar funds at other colleges, and make SRI both accessible and exciting to college students.

For more, visit bit.ly/dhsri-interest.

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Initiated in 2015, First-Years in Support of New Haven is an academic-year program for Yale College first-years to sustainably connect and consciously engage with the vibrant New Haven community. Our aim is to learn from the leadership and experience of community partners who dedicate their professional and personal lives to our shared city. We strive to foster open conversations about the changing New Haven/Yale relationship and engage in sustainable service that will continue throughout each student's time in New Haven.

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The Mission Statement of EWB-Yale Student Chapter is to help carry out the mission of EWB-USA by developing and implementing its own sustainable engineering projects in disadvantaged communities. Other goals include: 1) gaining practical engineering experience 2) find unique engineering solutions for developing nations 3) to create relationships between Yale students and members of developing communities.

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We see a gap in school systems nationwide in the way that girls are taught about their bodies. By teaching young girls to appreciate their bodies for the power and strength of which they are capable rather than what they look like, we hope to create a foundation for a lifetime of positive body image, high self-esteem, healthy relationships, as well as a love of running.
We also hope that this organization will help break down some of the "bubble" between Yale and New Haven by promoting an extracurricular activity that goes beyond academics and partners with young girls in New Haven as positive female role models.

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The Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project (YHHAP) is a student organization using education and action to alleviate housing and food insecurity in New Haven. Not-for-profit, we use our direct service, community involvement, and advocacy efforts to address root causes and to support immediate and long-term solutions for local food and housing deprivation.

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(1) Build a lasting interest in mathematics and problem solving among middle school students in the New Haven area through weekly tutoring sessions.
(2) Support middle school students in their mathematical educations through review and enrichment of material.
(3) Create a platform for students to apply their skills through annual competitions and events.
(4) Serve the New Haven community by improving the general quality of mathematics education.

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Matriculate's mission is to empower high-achieving, low-moderate income high school students to make the leap to colleges and universities of best fit with support and advising from undergraduates at Yale.

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MAY is a coalition of undergraduate students passionately devoted to aiding refugees, immigrants, and all other migrants in Greater New Haven – through advocacy and direct service.

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New Haven REACH is a student-run organization that seeks to provide the information and support necessary for New Haven youth to access the higher education best suited to their dreams, potential, and ambitions. REACH was founded by graduates of the Wilbur Cross Class of 2011, and we now have Yale student volunteers who hail from all over America and all over the world. We all share the core belief that no one should be shut out from attending college just because they don't have the information and support they need to apply.

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Our mission is to empower New Haven's students with the public speaking and critical thinking skills necessary to lead the future.

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PALS' mission is to reach as many students from first to sixth grade as possible with quality weekly tutoring. We focus on core academic skills and building individual relationships with our students. We particularly seek students that lack the opportunity to receive tutoring elsewhere.

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RISE is a tutoring and mentoring organization that works with immigrants and refugees in New Haven to overcome language and cultural barriers they may face. Our team of tutors works through weekly in-school and in-home sessions in a variety of public schools and family homes. Our tutors work with a curriculum designed by our team, and we provide resources necessary for our ESL based programming. In addition to these weekly sessions, we organize monthly community events to allow for cultural exchanges to benefit the greater New Haven community, the immigrant and refugee populations, and the Yale community.

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The mission of the club is to provide ROTC cadets, military members, and veterans in Yale College a community that carries out service through volunteering in New Haven and is a place to learn from peers the value of service.

Interest Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXW6s6E0uTIQtqZU5MSabP-b9hbjM6WzYgc1S724J3XMWNxw/viewform?fbclid=PAAaZm_HQfMAQUk2BrKzlH7yjsEuzRB-b9t1X6BRKLYecmKSgyHpB0iVqd41g_aem_AYy_HdwjMSYyd8nwi2WvY3hco3luRivN_x5_DwC185yI8KiwnpLzm1dvhmqERDwpuGU

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As our society becomes more and more technologically advanced, computer science becomes increasingly important and relevant. However, programming is inaccessible to many minority groups, especially women. We believe that teaching programming skills to girls will inspire and foster an interest in computer science. Moreover, our classes expose students to a technical field and allow them to create concrete products and instill value of perseverance, creativity, ownership, and achievement. SheCode wants to lower the initial intimidation barrier of computer science and create a supportive environment where students of all background can learn, collaborate, and create something incredible.

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The goal of this organization is to facilitate rewarding relationships between undergraduates and local children with special needs, while ultimately creating a long lasting motivation within Yalies to give back to their community. We teach water safety skills and basic swimming to special children in the New Haven community.

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Splash's mission is to increase students' excitement for learning by introducing them to topics beyond the scope of traditional school. By harnessing the passion and enthusiasm of Yale students, we hope to inspire middle- and high-schoolers to seek out further learning and see education as a fun, inviting process. We want to empower students by giving them full choice regarding their Splash day.

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This organization will exist as the undergraduate chapter of the Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer which since 1953 has supported families whose children are undergoing cancer treatments at Smilow Cancer Hospital: https://tommyfund.org/. The Tommy Fund provides direct payment for rent, mortgage and utility bills so parents can take time off from work to tend to their child. The clinic sees several hundred newly-diagnosed children each year and treats more children with cancer than any other hospital in Connecticut. The undergraduate chapter will raise money, build a network of groups that support the Smilow Hospital Tommy Fund, and will raise awareness about the plight of families struggling with childhood cancer.

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The mission of the UIC is to spark intellectual growth amongst urban youth. Through tutoring and entrepreneurship classes, the program seeks to assist students in achieving academic success, and to inspire inner-city students to succeed beyond the classroom and in the business world.

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Y2Y New Haven is a coalition of students across the Greater New Haven area. By employing a youth-to-youth model rooted in harm reduction and trauma-informed care, the Y2Y New Haven Student Group will engage both volunteers from New Haven schools and guests in the fight to end youth homelessness and become catalysts for social change.

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“Yale Education Tutoring Initiative - an Undergraduate Organization” connects Yale Undergraduate Students with greater New Haven high school students to assist with tutoring in areas including academic subjects, ACT and SAT preparation, as well as supporting the college application process, especially for first generation applicants. Undergraduate Yale students are assessed for interests and specialties and matched with high school students in their needed areas for tutoring. Tutoring occurs weekly for each student in one-hour tutoring sessions, with multiple weekdays available for student flexibility.

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To spread the ideas of effective altruism through analysis, outreach, advocacy, education and collaboration, and to engage with and enable effective altruistic practice using the immense resources and opportunities available at Yale. We aim to help facilitate students to find effective charities and enter careers that do a significant amount of good.

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Our mission is to introduce robotics to the underprivileged youth in New Haven and encourage imagination and teamwork. By providing an early, hands-on look into engineering, Funbotics aims to drive more children into STEM fields from a young age. Through our program, students not only learn the foundations of robotics and develop critical thinking, team-building, and presentation skills, but they also are exposed to the fun in robotics and STEM.

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The Yale Interpretation Network (YIN) provides pro-bono interpretation and translation services to bridge the gap between Limited English Proficient community members and social services. If you are fluent in another language, please sign up here: https://www.interpretationnetwork.org/volunteer

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As a member, you will have opportunities to gain valuable professional experience in law, social work, criminal justice, medicine, and more through our placement program. At the same time, you can help members of our community access the services they need without a language barrier. Time commitment is very flexible; you decide when you want to take a placement.

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Yale Math Competition aims to host an annual math competition that is more accessible to high school students all over America. The project is a collaboration between Yale, University of Michigan, University of Texas-Dallas, University of Iowa, University of Florida, University of California-Davis, and the University of Maryland.

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The purpose of Rotaract is to provide an opportunity for young men and women to enhance the knowledge and skills that will assist them in personal development, to address the physical and social needs of their communities, and to promote better relations between all people worldwide through a framework of friendship and service.

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The Yale Student Association for Small Claims Assistance (Y-SASCA) is an organization based in New Haven that seeks to provide legal information to individuals navigating the small claims court system in Connecticut. We hope to assist clients in effectively obtaining legal remedies while safeguarding their rights as consumers, tenants, and valued community members.

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The Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid Association is an organization open to young, human rights and legal aid-interested undergraduate students, which focuses primarily on offering its members volunteer opportunities on various legal projects in the greater New Haven area throughout the semester. We also organize advocacy events on campus to expand awareness on legal issues that pertain especially to the criminal justice system, immigration, refugee resettlement, and asylum-seeking.

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