Friends

Yale has always received help and encouragement from its extraordinary friends, a diverse group that included Elihu Yale in 1718 and thousands over the years. Their benefits to Yale University are many and various. But what benefits does a friend derive from the transaction?

An association with stability and quality

Belief in Yale's future, back in 1718, was an act of faith. Today, donor friends know that an affiliation with Yale puts them in touch with an established institution that is synonymous with quality, leadership, and learning. Yale's reputation is global and its future unlimited.

A vast selection of programs and purposes

Donors have a wide range of Yale projects, programs, and departments that they can choose to support, all of them worthy, from bio-medical research, through international studies, great arts programs, and community enhancement.

Ideal naming opportunities

A gift to Yale in the form of a permanent endowment (of a scholarship or fellowship, a professorship, or other opportunity) makes an ideal means of memorializing the donor or a person of the donor's choice. For more information, see Capital Gifts.

Financial advantages for the donor

Through planned gifts, donor friends can structure their gift in ways that benefit themselves while supporting a great institution.

To learn about making a gift as a memorial, please contact

Yale University
Office of Development
Memorials Program
P.O. Box 2038
New Haven, CT 06521-2038
(800) 395-7646

For all questions: Call toll free (800) 395-7646

Or e-mail: development.gifts@yale.edu

Yale University
Office of Development
P.O. Box 2038
New Haven, CT 06521-2038

 

“What is forming at New Haven might wear the name of Yale ... your munificence might easily obtain for you such a commemoration and perpetuation of your valuable name, as would indeed be much better than an Egyptian pyramid.”
—Cotton Mather
to Elihu Yale, 1718