Annual Fund
Making a gift to the YSE Annual Fund has direct, meaningful impact on our students and faculty, supporting financial aid, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and other areas of need.
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Why Support the Annual Fund?
- All gifts to the YSE Annual Fund directly support the Yale School of the Environment. When you contribute to the Annual Fund, you’re helping our talented students and faculty pursue bold solutions to today’s environment’s challenges and work toward a more sustainable future.
- Many endowed funds are structured with a specific focus and in order to meet certain needs, and are not able to be used to address all of the needs of the School as they arise. This is why the flexible, unrestricted funds provided by gifts to the YSE Annual Fund are so important.
- Just as alumni helped fund your time at Yale, you can now take pride in knowing your generosity is helping the next generation of environmental leaders.
Where can I direct my support?
- Dean’s Priorities: Support Dean Burke's highest priorities
- Diversity & Inclusion: Support diversity and inclusion efforts at the School
- The Forest School: Support projects at The Forest School
- Financial Aid: Financial support for current YSE students
- Unrestricted: Flexible and immediate support for YSE, wherever it is needed most
Become a Consistent Giver
The Great Mountain Society recognizes YSE alumni who give consistently, year after year. Make a gift of any size, in consecutive years, and you become a member automatically. To maintain your membership, simply renew your gift each year. Your consistent support truly does help in impactful — life-changing — ways!
Recognition for Annual Giving
- Othniel C. Marsh Fellows $5,000–above
- Sand County Society $1,000–$4,999 ($500+ for last ten classes)
- Great Mountain Society Consistent annual giving
Ways to Give
Make a one-time gift today, or set up a convenient giving plan with a pledge or a recurring gift. You can designate your gift to support financial aid, The Forest School, diversity and inclusion efforts — or provide unrestricted support to our areas of greatest need.