Annual Gifts: The Graduate School
Annual giving through the Alumni Fund is the backbone of alumni support for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Through the Alumni Fund, graduate alumni have become important partners in maintaining the unparalleled strength and potential of America's inaugural graduate school.
What do these gifts support?
Alumni gifts to the Graduate School are directed in support of the donor's department, where a portion is used for general fellowship support of students in that field and the remainder is administered by the department chair for a variety of purposes. These include:
- augmentation of fellowship awards to especially deserving incoming students
- small grants toward travel to conferences for students presenting papers
- emergency funds to help students
- programs to enhance student life
Why participate in annual giving to the Alumni Fund?
Alumni Fund gifts provide readily available support for graduate departments to channel into programs and fellowships that directly impact the quality of the graduate experience.
Support your department
Alumni participation signals strong support for your department and the importance of research performed there.
Sustain excellence
All fellowships in the Graduate School are awarded based on academic merit. Your gift helps ensure that promising students have the financial means to pursue the ambitious and demanding path of graduate study.
Enhance your department's profile
A portion of Alumni Fund gifts go toward travel fellowships, which play a role in enhancing departmental recognition both within Yale and throughout the broad scholarly community.
Graduate School Donor Recognition
THE NATHAN HALE ASSOCIATES
Leadership Recognition Levels for Unrestricted Current Use Annual Giving
What is the Nathan Hale Associates Program?
The Nathan Hale Associates program, currently led by Joseph McNay '56 as Chairman, was founded in 1994 to encourage and recognize increased Alumni Fund contributions. The program is the University's way of acknowledging the many alumni and friends whose most generous gifts have helped nurture the dynamic, creative environment that is integral to the Yale experience.
Why join the Nathan Hale Associates?
Uphold the Yale tradition of giving
The Nathan Hale Associates join a proud tradition at Yale, almost 300 years old, representing a distinguished group of contributors willing to support and encourage excellence.
Set an example
Participants in the Nathan Hale Associates program are acknowledged in Yale publications. Their leadership serves to inspire the efforts of all at Yale to provide the very best opportunities in higher education.
All alumni and friends are invited to join the Nathan Hale Associates in the following giving categories:
| President's Council | |
| • Fourth Century Circle | $50,000 and above |
| • Woodbridge Circle | $25,000 – $49,999 |
| Hillhouse Associates | $15,000 – $24,999 |
| Sterling Associates | $10,000 – $14,999 |
| Harkness Associates | $5,000 – $9,999 |
| Elihu Yale Associates | $2,500 – $4,999 |
| Woolsey Associates | $1,000 – $2,499 |
Who was Nathan Hale?
A member of Yale's graduating Class of 1773, Nathan Hale served as a Revolutionary soldier in Cambridge, New York, and New London and eventually volunteered to be a spy under General Washington's direction.
Disguised as a schoolmaster, he found his way into the British camps in Brooklyn and New York. He was recognized while attempting to return and arrested. His papers were found in his shoes — among them his Yale diploma. Before being executed on September 22, 1776, his last words were: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
BRISCOE-GAINES ASSOCIATES
This program recognizes donors who have given current use gifts to the Yale Graduate School in each of the past five years.
Matching Gifts
Increase your contribution at no additional cost to you!
Some companies will match charitable gifts. You can obtain a matching gift form from your Personnel or Human Resources department. Complete the requested information and return the form with your contribution. Note: Some companies also match spouses' gifts.
Click here to find out if your company matches gifts to Yale.
If you would like to make a gift to the Graduate School Alumni Fund, please contact:
Yale Graduate School Alumni Fund
P.O. Box 1890
New Haven, CT 06508-1890
Phone: (800) 395-7646
E-mail: gradalumni.fund@yale.edu
If you would like to speak to someone directly about the Graduate School Alumni Fund, contact:
Cindy Sacramone
Associate Director, Graduate and Professional Schools Annual Giving
Phone: (203) 432-6956
cynthia.sacramone@yale.edu
If you'd like to find out more about ways in which your participation can make a difference at Yale, see Volunteers.
