Events Calendar

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), an environmental nonprofit with over 25 years of experience partnering with smallholder farmers to adopt regenerative practices, is excited to host YASC volunteers for a week of service this summer with two SHI partnering communities (Piedras Gordas and Bermejo). This service trip and future ones will contribute to SHI's work to train Central American farmers in farming techniques that nourish families and help restore our planet.

Presented below is a list of projects that we anticipate offering:

•    Community Garden - volunteers will construct a community garden and make organic fertilizers (e.g., bokashi) at the school grounds or homes of families in the community.
•    Reforestation/Agroforestry - volunteers will help create agroforests by establishing coffee plantations and planting a variety of trees that provide food, timber, shade and carbon sequestration while restoring wildlife habitat.
•    Regenerative Agriculture - volunteers will help establish regenerative agriculture plots to increase farm production, carbon sequestration and biodiversity through activities such as making organic fertilizers (including compost), building terraces, or erosion control measures, creating plant nurseries and planting staple crops (e.g. corn, beans, rice and medicinal plants).
•    Light Duty Project Ideas - we are exploring a few project ideas in case the primary activities are too physically demanding for some participants.
•    Health & Nutrition Workshop - volunteers will give a health and nutrition workshop to community members sharing information and tips on how to prepare healthy recipes with produce grown and consumed by SHI farming families.
•    Community Signs - volunteers will paint signs raising environmental awareness to be placed throughout the school grounds and within the community.

Additionally, there's also the possibility for some volunteers to measure impacts of the shift to agroecology on SHI farms. Depending on the skills of the volunteers, this could focus on one or more of the following: general soil testing, soil biodiversity with eDNA testing, farm biodiversity through ecoacoustic surveys, collection of coordinates for shape files for future AI assessments and measurements of carbon in soils and trees.

For questions or further information feel free to contact trip producer Alicia Morris ’99 or João Aleixo at the YAA.

Join the Yale School of Medicine Black alumni and friends at the National Medical Association Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly.
Nancy J. Brown, MD, the Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Yale School of Medicine, cordially invites you to join her at the National Medical Association Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly for an update from the medical school over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.

Space is limited. Kindly RSVP by Friday, July 19.

Join the Yale Chicago team as part of the ongoing 2024 Yale Day of Service on Saturday, September 7, 2024, as we again participate in the annual PAWS Chicago 5K Walk/Run For Their Lives!

Visit the Yale Chicago team registration page on the PAWS Chicago website to join our team by registering to walk/run and/or make a donation!

More information will be provided to Yale Chicago participants as the event date approaches. with any questions.

For planning purposes, we kindly request that you also register with Yale Chicago using the "Registration" button.

All event details are online and more information will be provided to Yale Chicago participants as the event date approaches. Contact YaleChicago with any questions.

In addition to or instead of running/walking the 5K, Yale Chicago alumni, friends, and family are also invited to contact PAWS directly if you'd like to volunteer with PAWS to support the run/walk in other ways such as providing direct support for event-day operations (e.g., event setup/teardown, etc.)! Please visit the "Helping with Events" volunteer page on the PAWS website to learn more about supporting Special Event operations. Feel free to contact Alexandra Newman '05 if you will be volunteering with PAWS at the 5K run/walk in a capacity other than signing up for the Yale Chicago run/walk team so that we can still include you on club communications relating to the event.

Contact: Alexandra Newman '05