The Yale Club of New Haven is proud to sponsor the service opportunities in the Greater New Haven area on the global Yale Day of Service, held in May each year. Community service is in our tradition, and we hope you will join us and your fellow alumni to give back to the New Haven community. Learn more about the volunteer opportunities, including registration information at Yale Day of Service.

Tutors/Mentors needed for Summer Workshops http://www.collegesummit.org

Interested in meeting local high school students and helping them on their path to college?

College Summit CT, partnering with the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions, needs volunteer coaches for their summer workshops for rising seniors.

New Haven high school students with great potential could benefit immensely from your time, experience and knowledge! For more information please contact College Summit Program Manager Jasmine Willis, jwillis@collegesummit.org. College Summit and New Haven Promise have become the main vehicles for NH public schools to promote a college-going culture in its high schools, and College Summit now trains teachers and influential students in all of the 13 high schools in the New Haven school district.

A new lunchtime reading program at the Wexler-Grant School Read to a Child aims to increase children’s success in reading and in life by inspiring adults to read to them regularly. Their lunchtime reading program partners adults with students grades 1-4 for rewarding experiences. This year they have launched a program at Wexler-Grant. Volunteers are asked to meet once a week or every other week with the students they are paired with. Tailored to working people, the schedule is flexible and well-suited to volunteer with colleagues from your office.

To learn more visit http://www.readtoachild.org, or contact kate Holzman: kate.holtzman@readtoachild.org

The Yale Club of New Haven will again be teaming up with New Haven Reads to provide after school tutoring this year. New Haven Reads has tutoring Monday through Friday at its three sites, all of which are near the Yale campus.

45 Bristol Street
101 Ashmun Street
4 Science Park

After school (3:00 to 6:00 PM) tutoring is organized into weekly one-hour sessions with each student, but tutors may volunteer to work with more than one student on a particular day or for more than one day a week. Tutors may negotiate for convenient days and hours with New Haven Reads, but should be prepared to commit to being available every week as much as possible. Consistency is an important component of the program: these are children who frequently experience limited consistency in their lives.

Our Yale tutors will be focused principally on helping children improve their reading, though tutors may also help with math. In addition, in their conversations with the children, tutors and mentors provide insights into subjects, values and lifestyles far beyond the experiences of these students. New Haven Reads will provide tutor training, but the work we do requires mainly good common sense and the desire to help and inspire. Parents who have read to and with their own children have the basic training needed to make a significant contribution.

The personal rewards that Yale Club tutors will gain from this program are exceptional. There is nothing like meeting a former student and getting a big hug!

We need tutors to help with this year’s program. For further information or to volunteer, please visit newhavenreads.org/get_involved/volunteer