Dwight Hall At Yale

Fellowships and experiential learning - dwight hall at yale now offers 26 distinct programs, including fellowships, internships, and other leadership development opportunities for students. Through the support of dwight hall at yale staff, students engage with internal yale communities and external organizations, community partners, and agencies dedicated to particular areas of service and community need. Dwight hall urban fellows seek to uncover and address urban challenges through neighborhood empowerment, community-building, and economic development. Dwight hall summer fellows is an institutional program through which students design a project in conjunction with field experts that is realistic, will show demonstratable results, and contributes positively to the community. Public school interns serve as liaisons between the yale community and a new haven public school to which they are assigned.

Co-op after school - a signature program of dwight hall at yale co-op after school is the only after school model in the country that continually evolves around the needs of high school students to accomodate their voluntary participation. Since 2010, dwight hall at yale has been the recipient of the connecticut state department of education's after school grant and has managed and operated the program in conjunction with new haven's cooperative arts and humanities interdistrict magnet high school. The program model is built on freedom of choice and breadth of opportunity, which leads to a depth of experience manifested in positive social relationships, increased self-expression, and higher academic performance.yale prison education initiative - a signature program of dwight hall at yalethe yale prison education initiative (ypei) was founded as a dwight hall program in 2016 to bring access to rigorous, for-credit yale liberal arts courses and other programming to incarcerated students in connecticut prisons. In fiscal year 2024, ypei continued its expansion into a year-round degree-offering program in partnership with the university of new haven and offers college-to-career fellowships to formerly incarcerated students. As of 2024, the program has facilitated over 700 unique enrollments in credit-bearing yale or university of new haven college courses for more than 90 students. Emerging projectsas a key component of our advance portfolio, dwight hall's emerging project sponsorship provides support to new haven community leaders addressing local needs by supplying: guidance for strategic planning, visioning, and program development; fiscal sponsorship and fiduciary services; and material resources such as workspaces, supplies, and technology.in the 2023-2024 academic year, dwight hall supported 18 unique emerging projects and initiatives. These initiatives included the path forward, yale biotech club, jeannot basima basketball camp and foundation, healing by growing farms, south asian youth initiative, new muses, roller skating rink mentoring program, bridging the gap, enrich health llc, dixwell q house volunteer eye clinic, hunger and homelessness auction, paws: poverty alleviation through washing of soles, muslim alumni of yale, and maui fire benefit concert.

In fiscal year 2024, dwight hall at yale continued to support innovative student-led groups like the dwight hall socially responsible investment fund. This organization now consists of a community investment team making grants to new haven organizations, a shareholder engagement team, and a portfolio team.