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Mission-driven Initiative
We are Yale alumni who come from diverse backgrounds, including being 1st in our families or from underserved backgrounds to graduate from college or graduate school. We connect with each other to share our stories and have a positive impact on the lives of Yale students and alumni.
We celebrate diversity
1stGenYale is inclusive of all diversity: race, ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status, and family hardships.
How can alumni help?
❖ Organize career workshops, panel discussions and events, virtual and in person, on relevant topics to alumni and students.
❖ Connect with the Office of Career Strategy to offer summer internships or full-time employment for Yale students.
❖ Connect with fellow alumni and students in 1stGenYale on Cross Campus.
❖ Share your life & career experiences with students through 1stGenYale networking programs held twice a year on campus and many opportunities throughout the year.
❖ We are looking for alumni leaders to help us grow into a sustainable organization.
❖ Your ideas? Email us.
year-round events
SEPTEMBER
YAA & YaleNYC | Welcome to NYC
at the Yale Club of New York City
FALL
1stGenYaleNYC Happy Hour
OCTOBER
1stGenYale Family Picnic
co-sponsored by the
Community Initiative at Yale
NOVEMBER
8th annual Career Networking Mixer
at Assembly/Convocation
DECEMBER-MAY
1stGenYale Summer Bulldogs:
student internship program
MAY
Yale College Commencement:
Welcome to the 1stGenYale FGLI Graduates’ Reception
MAY
Yale Reunion weekends
late May & early June
JUNE
Yale Alumni Educators & 1stGenYale Book Award
JULY
Alumni Perspectives: Navigating Yale & Beyond:
a partnership with FSY, Yale College, and Yale Summer Session
AUGUST
Yale College Students
NYC Send-Off Party co-sponsored by YLAN
YEAR-ROUND
Webinars & In-person with Yale partners / conferences / summer interns / career speakers / meet & greets / send-off & welcome home / holiday receptions / co-sponsorships with Yale SIGs & YAA / for Humanity Illuminated
connecting alumni
Financial support
Mentoring opportunity
Alumni supporting alumni
Alumni & students in other cities
Sharing our stories
resources for students
current program
Since 2020, 250 Yale College students have interned as 1stGenYale Summer Bulldogs around the world. They have received almost $800,000 in summer funding through the Center for International & Professional Experiences (CIPE). 1stGenYale Summer Bulldogs is an entirely Yale alumni volunteer-run program without direct funding from Yale. 1stGenYale, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, relies on donations to operate our programs.
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Yale School of Public Health Professor Sarah Lowe, a 2021 and 2022 sponsor, highlights her experience, "It has been my pleasure to serve as a mentor for the 1stGenYale Summer Bulldogs program. I have been so impressed by my interns. They are intelligent, hardworking, and kind young people with a commitment to promoting social justice and community wellbeing. I feel very fortunate to have them as members of my research lab."
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