Dwight Hall at Yale

Student service opportunities and leadership development comprising 75 groups, student-led programming is a core aspect of the work of Dwight Hall at Yale. Led by a student executive committee that provides governance and guidance, the groups forge trusted partnerships with new haven neighborhoods and communities around the world. Student-led member groups work on diverse causes and issues, including mentorship and tutoring, hunger, homelessness, criminal justice reform, peace, and health education. 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 the student groups.in the 2022-2023 academic year, the organization engaged 3,748 volunteers who contributed 60,788 hours of direct service.

Co-op after school - a signature program of Dwight Hall at Yale co-op after school is the only after school model in the country that continually evolves around the needs of high school students to accomodate 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 new haven's cooperative arts and humanities interdistrict magnet high school. 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.yale prison education initiative - a signature program of Dwight Hall at yalethe Yale prison education initiative (ypei) was founded as a Dwight Hall program in 2016 to bring access to rigorous, for-credit Yale liberal arts courses and other programming to incarcerated students in Connecticut prisons. In fiscal year 2023, ypei continued its expansion into a year-round degree-offering program in partnership with the university of new haven and now offers college-to-career fellowships to formerly incarcerated students. As of 2023, the program has facilitated over 600 unique enrollments in credit-bearing Yale or university of new haven college courses for more than 80 incarcerated students.

Fellowships and experiential learning - Dwight Hall at Yale now offers 27 distinct programs, including fellowships, internships, and other leadership development opportunities for students. Through the support of Dwight Hall at Yale staff, students engage with internal Yale communities and external organizations, community partners, and agencies dedicated to particular areas of service and community need. Dwight Hall urban fellows seek to uncover and address urban challenges through neighborhood empowerment, community-building, and economic development. Dwight Hall summer fellows is an institutional program through which students design a project in conjunction with field experts that is realistic, will show demonstratable results, and contributes positively to the community. Public school interns serve as liaisons between the Yale community and a new haven public school to which they are assigned.

In fiscal year 2023, Dwight Hall at Yale continued to support innovative student-led groups like the Dwight Hall socially responsible investment fund. This organization now consists of a community investment team making grants to new haven organizations, a shareholder engagement team, and a portfolio team.