Join the YANA Bay Area Chapter for an in-depth discussion with leading experts on food insecurity causes and solutions. The program examines food insecurity from the lens of two major SF Bay Area community food banks, international warehousing ...

Margaret Laws (President & CEO, HopeLab), Mary Giliberti LAW ’92 (Chief Public Policy Officer, Mental Health America), Philip Corlett (Assoc. Prof, Yale University Center for Mind and Brain Health), Hilary Blumberg (John and Hope Furth Prof...

Join us for a  wide exploration and deep dive into forms of impact investing, social/development impact “bonds” and the ways in which social impact capital is being resourced and used not only to treat symptoms and outcomes of socia...

Listen to this engaging conversation with David Van Zandt, the innovative and strategic leader of higher education institutions Northwestern School of Law and The New School.Bio:David Van Zandt was the longest-serving and mos...

Founders Series: Advancing Peace, Education, Community Impact, and Working Waterfronts Thinking about starting a nonprofit? Curious to know what it’s like to create one? Then listen to the stories of these four no...

YANA EVENING TEADon Chen '89, FES '92, President, Surdna FoundationPaul Sabin ‘92, Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Prof. of History; Prof. of American Studies, YaleDon Chen and Yale Professor Paul Sabin discuss nonprofit advocacy and ...

An in-depth discussion on the factors that contribute to economic inequalities and some of the policies and interventions that promote economic mobility.  We are joined by experts in health, tax, economics, sociology, and social and racial...

Hear from three inspiring students who are thoughtfully engaging in summer internships to serve communities and under-represented individuals.  They are smart, reflective, and committed to pursuing justice as they develop the skills they n...

Victoria Chen is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of BridgeYear, a Houston-based nonprofit that connects underserved youth to careers and educational opportunities that lead to economic stability a...

On June 28, 2022, YANA hosted law professors Bridget J. Crawford '91 and Emily Gold Waldman '99, authors of a new book, Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods, which explores the burgeoning menstru...

Join YANA for an in-depth discussion with two physicians who have spent their careers working to correct for the many disparities in healthcare access, success, and even professional careers: YANA Board member and community health practitioner,...

As heartbreak in Ukraine continues, the Yale community is working  together in many ways to support this war-torn country.  On Wednesday, May 25th, YANA spoke with the Yale doctor founders of

More than two years into the ongoing global pandemics of COVID-19, systematic racism, and environmental degradation, the nonprofit and other mission-driven organizations in the Pacific Northwest have worked hard to turn adversity into opportuni...

We’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m. because it’s too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have evacuation plans....

When COVID struck two years ago, two courageous young people saw and seized the opportunity to transform adversity into positive social change. Kristin Urquiza started Marked By COVID to give a voice to the voiceless after the tragic and unnece...

ADDICTION RECOVERY: Healing Through Compassion and CommunityAddiction in the US was already at a crisis level when Covid struck. The pandemic fueled an increase in financial insecurity and social isolation, triggering a ...

Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the US evacuated more than 75,000 Afghans to the United States. This is truly a historic effort, second in scale only to the Vietnamese resettlement in the 1970’s and made es...

Urban parks and natural areas have never been more important for our collective sanity than during Covid. On January 26th, two alums from the Yale School of the Environment - Sarah Charlop-Powers ’09 MEM and

Join us for a conversation about how we advance the success of under-resourced students. How do we define educational success? What challenges exist at each juncture along the educational journey -- entering college, as an undergraduate, and po...

Join the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance for an intimate Evening Tea with Jeff Russell SOM ‘08, Founder and CEO of Jitasa, a certified B-Corp that offers bookkeeping and accounting services exclusively to nonprofits, and author of

Many professionals aged 65 and older find themselves approaching, transitioning to, or even in retirement with a feeling of wanting to give back but having no idea how or where to start. Questions arise such as: What do I want to do with th...

Avoiding Burnout in Social Impact WorkHealth practitioners, managers, and startup nonprofit leaders will talk about how they approach managing and supporting the mental health of employees, direct service providers, and school an...

Physical space can be a powerful way for nonprofits to tell their stories.  Not just origin stories and founding myths, but also stories of transformation, reinvention, and renewal—in other words, both who you are as an organization an...

In this October 27, 2021 hybrid YANA Town Hall, three seasoned social impact leaders - Terence Li ‘04, Tim McChristian ‘77, and Ted Smith ’00 share how they have created innovative programs that use sports as a gateway to help under-served yout...

A Multi-Tradition Panel DiscussionOctober 25, 2021An open and multi-faceted discussion on how foundational texts and traditions of various religions, faiths, and wisdoms translate into and compel/command engagement in soc...