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- EIN 06-0653140
- (203) 432-2420
- 67 High St New Haven CT 06511-8963 USA
- www.dwighthall.org
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Causes: Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Education, Leadership Development, Student Services, Undergraduate Colleges
Mission: Dwight hall at yale's mission is to nurture and inspire students as leaders of social change and to advance justice and service in new haven and around the world. As such, dwight hall at yale supports students as they seek meaningful service opportunities, develops the capacity for civic leadership among the student body, and creates a collaborative space where social issues are discussed, analyzed and acted upon in concrete ways. With a strong history of service and social justice that goes back to 1886, the organization supports service for more than 58 student-run member groups that engage approximately 3,500 students, or nearly 2/3, of yale's undergraduates each year. Dwight hall enables students to design, manage, evaluate and adapt responses to a wide range of local, national and global needs, then supports those efforts through training, peer mentorship, and reflection opportunities. This culture of action and reflection encourages student leaders to share best practices, learn
Programs: Service opportunities and leadership development - comprising 58 groups, student-led prgoramming is a core aspect of the work of dwight hall at yale. Led by a student executive committee that provides governance and guidance, each group is assigned to one of four dwight hall networks: education, international, public health, and social justice. While dwight hall resources such as funding, transportation, working space, and publicity are used, it is the training, mentoring, and reflection that provide the greatest support to our student groups. The freshman in service program exposes first-year students of yale college to the new haven community and its leaders, culminating in a student project team that partners with a local community organization to address an immediate community need. Each semester, dwight hall at yale organizes one-time service events open to all yale students. More than 150 students volunteer several hours of time to the new haven community for a single day, resulting in collaboration projects with city leaders and non-profits that build the capacity of organizations to complete large-scale work. Dwight hall also advances unique leadership opportunities for students through programs like the socially responsible investment fund, whose mission is to ensure financial success of a portion of dwight hall's endowment while raising awareness of the importance of incorporating environmental, social, and corporate governance issues.
fellowships and internships - dwight hall at yale offers fellowships, internships, and other leadership opportunities for students. Through the support of dwight hall at yale staff, students are able to find internal yale communities dedicated to a particular area of service. Dwight hall urban fellows seek to uncover and counter urban challenges through neighborhood empowerment, community-building, and economic development. Dwight hall summer fellows is an institutional program in which students must design a project in conjunction with field experts that is realistic, will show demonstrable results, and contributes positively to the community. The public school interns serve as liaisons between the yale community and a new haven public school to which they are assigned. With additional support from yale's office of new haven and state affairs, public school interns are resources for other student groups performing service and an invaluable link to the community.
co-op after school - a marquee program of dwight hall at yale, co-op after school (cas) is the only after school model in the country that continually evolves around the needs of high school students to accommodate 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 cooperative arts and humanities interdistrict magnet high school (co-op). 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. This type of active youth participation allows cas to expand to more students while achieving a high attendance rate. In the last year, cas engaged 393 co-op high school students, offered 62 arts, academic, and enrichment programs each semester, ran and produced the theatrical performance in partnership with co-op, the city of new haven comprehensive arts department, and the elm shakespeare company, and provided employment or volunteer opportunities for over 26 yale students/groups.
j-z amp - funded by the john and marie zimmermann fund, inc. , the jones- zimmermann academic mentoring program (j-z amp) is a three-year initiative that pairs sophomore mentors with 6th grade mentees. Mentoring relationships are sustained through the participant's respective graduations, when mentors finish their yale university career and mentees enter high school. Deploying up to 20 mentors, the program identifies youth who struggle academically and employs a triangular mentoring model that fosters an academic-centered relationship that also allows the child to develop personally. Each week, the mentor/mentee spend time developing academics, but additional time is built in for personal expression and unique learning opportunities.