-BRAC reaches 110 million people in Asia and Africa, leading the way
in microfinance, education, health, and more.
-BRAC is: three meals a day.a well rounded education for poor girls
and boys.quality health care for the poorest families.a pathway out
of poverty..
-BRAC, founded in Bangladesh 37 years ago, has been called the
largest and most successful NGO you have never heard of.  With this
event we hope to turn this around.

Wednesday, September 9th.  6:30pm-9pm
The Edwynn Houk Gallery
745 5th Avenue @ 57th Street
Business or festive attire
Cost: Free.  Advance RSVP required: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

For more information on BRAC: http://www.brac.net/   
Event flier: http://www.brac.net/usa/Friendraiser+Invitation.html

Get involved in the New Haven community! Meet representatives for over 100 student-run and community agencies seeking volunteers.

Token Collective presents the world premiere of 

Nesting

a new play by Caitlin Saylor Stephens

directed by Jennifer Sandella

with: Jonathan Judge-Russo, Geoff Schuppert, Caitlin Saylor Stephens, Melissa Wolff

Wed, Sep 9 -- Sun, Sep 20

TUE - FRI at 8:00 | SAT at 2:00 and 8:00 | SUN at 2:00

Anna's life in her upscale suburban nest is going according to plan until a devastating fire changes everything. NESTING maps Anna's struggle to maintain her life as it was. With humor, empathy and love, three uninvited guests enter her grief-stricken world to pull her out of the rubble.

The Public Service/Social Justice Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York is proud to co-sponsor the T.E.A.L. 5K Walk for Ovarian Cancer in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.  We are looking for 15+ walkers for TEAM YALE to raise awarness of, and promote a cure for ovarian cancer.  Proceeds will benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the leading independent agency dedicated to advancing ovarian cancer research. If you wish to register, or for further information, please contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript Amanda Taffy. More details about the event can be found at www.tealwalk.org.

The Educational Programs Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York is engaged in planning educational enrichment programs for New York City area alumni. If you are interested in crafting first-rate, engaging, and intellectually stimulating programs with fellow Yale alumni, you are warmly invited to the join the Committee. If you would like to join, please contact the Committee at: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript . All are welcome.

Here is your chance to catch Singin Wid a Sword in Ma Han, winner of the 2009 Audience Favorite Award at the NY International Fringe Festival 2009! Through the NY International Fringe Festival, theatergoers were treated to the ultimate buffet - 201 shows!  Of all 201 shows, audiences overwhelmingly voted for Singin (Audience Favorite Award conducted by Theatermania). 

Singin Wid A Sword In Ma Han tells a young womans story of love, family and escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad -- interweaving spirituals as escape songs, and showing a surprising range of conductors.

Heres what our reviewers said:

**** Four Stars "Captivating Docudrama"  "The vibrant songs are both moving and catchy."

"Anyone who enjoys enthusiastic church choirs and oral storytelling will be singin' along." Time Out NY

effectively enraptures us... a play full of great and simple achievements

"Vienna Carroll and Ade Herbert are both gifted and charming performers" "All the performers have beautiful, resonant voices..." 

"simply and effectively directed by Keith E. Johnston... skillfully lit by Peter Leonard." NYTheatre.com

The NY International Fringe Festival has now offered an extended run of Singin Wid A Sword in Ma Han at Actors' Playhouse 100 Seventh Avenue South (Grove & Bleecker)

Run time 60 minutes. Tickets $18

Sun September 13, 5 PM
Mon September 14,  6 PM
Tue September 22,  9 PM
Sun September 27,  1 PM
Mon September 28, 8 PM 

Please join Teach For America for an Information Session regarding our employment opportunities. It is a great opportunity to learn more about the organization and a chance to speak with representatives from Teach For America. The presentation will take place on Tuesday, September 14th, at 6:00 pm in the Branford College Common Room.

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and working professionals - of all academic majors, backgrounds and career interests - who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders for expanding educational opportunity for all children.

Each year, Teach For America selects a diverse corps of individuals who have the skills and commitment to make a real impact on the academic prospects of students growing up in low-income communities, and to exert long term leadership in the effort to eliminate educational inequity.  Teach For America corps members receive training, a full salary and benefits, as well as continual support through a two-year professional development program to ensure their success as teachers and beyond.

Today there are nearly 17,000 Teach For America alumni working in a variety of sectors, including business, education, law, medicine, and public policy.  You can learn more about our graduate school and employer partnerships by clicking on the links below:

Employer partnerships here.

Graduate school partnerships here. 

We invite all seniors and interested students to attend.
Refreshments will be served.

Please visit www.teachforamerica.org for additional information.
First Application Deadline: September 18, 2009

Pancakes for Poverty will DELIVER PANCAKES to your door EVERY WEDNESDAY!!!

$1 for 1 pancake, $2 for 3 pancakes. All proceeds fund a sustainable development project abroad.

Send an order EVERY WEDNESDAY to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript with your name, phone number, quantity and type of pancake, college, room number, and the time you'd like your pancakes delivered. We'll be at your door!

Or if you'd prefer to pick up your pancakes in person, we'll be selling them EVERY WEDNESDAY from 11PM to 1AM in Dwight Hall Common Room!

 Norman Smiler Zamcheck, '70.  Singer-songwriter pianist;  blues, folk, rock, New Orleans .  Original songs,  piano improvisation.  Accompanied by the Stormin' Band:   David Clive,  drums,  John (Gerry) Putnam, guitars,  Jacques Raymond,  bass.  (Polydor/Perfect Crime recording artist)  "Unusually new,  unusually creative .."  New York Times.

 "Young playwright Caitlin Saylor Stephens makes a sparkling debut with her first full-length production, NESTING.

[Melissa] Wolff is excellent as Anna, at times walking around in a daze, then coming sharply into focus, trapped physically and mentally in the past. 

Stephens is electrifying as Ashley, a sixteen-year-old girl desperate for something to hold on to. 

And [Jonathan] Judge-Russo is solid as Frank, a caring man who finds himself caught between being hero and villain."

--Mark Rifkin, This Week in NY

To buy tickets, go to:

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/nesting_158102/

Or call:

(212) 352-3101

TokenCollective presents the world premiere of 

Nesting 

a new play by Caitlin Saylor Stephens

directed by Jennifer Sandella

with Jonathan Judge-Russo, Geoff Schuppert, Caitlin Saylor Stephens, Melissa Wolff* 

Anna's life is going according to plan until a devastating fire changes everything. NESTING maps Anna's struggle to maintain her life as it was. With humor, empathy and love, three uninvited guests enter her grief-stricken world to pull her out of the rubble.

Set Design | Izquierdo Studios 

Lighting Design | Miguel Valderrama 

Costume Design | Diavanna Zarzuela 

Sound Design | Jacob Subotnick 

Stage Manager | Charis Jones 

Props | Nina Sacharow

Technical Director | Ien DeNio

Graphic Design | Chris Kalb

Publicity | Caroline von Kuhn

Photography | Jill Usdan, Spud King Photography 

Wednesday, Sept. 9  Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 

TUE  FRI at 8:00 | SAT at 2:00 and 8:00 | SUN at 2:00

walkerspace, 46 Walker Street, NYC

between Broadway & Church

two blocks south of Canal Street

A/C/E, N/R/Q/W or 6 train to Canal

1 to Franklin

Become a fan of Nesting on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nesting-a-New-Play/88900211798?ref=ts 

 *Appearing Courtesy of Actors Equity Association. Equity Approved Showcase. 

Just graduated? Out a few years but new to the NYC area? Join fellow alums for an event co-hosted by the Yale Club of New York City and the Association of Yale Alumni. Enjoy complimentary beer, wine and snacks too!

- Find out which of your friends are in NYC

- Network with Yale-affiliated alumni organizations (see below)

- Learn about services Yale provides to alumni: Yale Career Network, lifetime email forwarding

- Connect with cool New York groups that provide opportunities to get out and have a great time in the City

- Raffle prizes! Win Yale and Yale Club-related goodies

Alumni groups invited to attend: YAAMNY (Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York), Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA), Black Alumni Association, Yale Latino Alumni of the Tri-State Area (YLATSA), Gay & Lesbian Alumni (GALA), Yale Life Sciences Alumni Association (YLSAA), Yale Alumni Real Estate Association (YAREA), Yale Science & Engineering Association (YSEA), The Yale Theater Initiative, Creative Yale Alumni Network (CYAN), Yale Alumni Chorus (YAC)
Campus groups or departments: AYA (Yale Career Network, Day of Service, AYA Service Tours), Yale Alumni Fund, Alumni Schools Committees, Yale Athletic Sport Associations, Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI)

PLEASE NOTE: Proper dress is required (business casual, no denim or sneakers).

Join investors, industry professionals and government officials at the inaugural networking and investment conference for the sustainable agriculture industry.

Register Here: www.newseedadvisors.com/registration/

September 18 through October 17, 2009

A) Food Drive! Please bring a can of non-perishable food.

B) Be sure to come to one of our Potluck Dinners, Tuesday and Saturday nights throughout the run!

C) Group exhibition with works by Tomma Abts, Jo Baer, Darren Bader, Hilla & Berndt Becher, Hillary Berseth, Cosima von Bonin, Carol Bove, Roe Ethridge, Tony Feher, Alison Fox, Alex Klein, Sherrie Levine, Jason Meadows, Carrie Moyer, Alex Olson, Sarah Oppenheimer, Raha Raissnia, Pat Steir and Lily van der Stokker

We want to live with work we like, work we are curious about, work we could never own but have the chance to eat dinner with if we put it into a group show that incorporates tables, chairs, and food.  In order to understand the work, get to know it, we invite our friends and strangers to look at the work with us over a meal.  The setup rewards durational viewing.  So does abstraction.  We chose most of this work for its abstraction and or conceptualism with the intention that the participant will find sustained albeit earned nourishment in the work as well as the meals.  In addition to the individual works providing stimulus, the context provided by adjacent works inspires another level of sightlines, interruptions, jumps in conversation and information that keeps perspective un-fixed.

We have grouped an unexpected bevy of artists into a space activated by the dinner time conversation puzzling the connections and discovering the complements.

This show front and center emphasizes responsibility: we are asking for food for the needy; we are going to enforce the potluck rule; a Saturday farmstand presents the origin of food.  The artwork is streamlined towards questions of responsibility through its immediate abstraction, the up front questions of the necessity or uselessness of interpretation, the physical phenomena each piece dictates in the viewer, the burden or enlightenment of context.

The Public Service/Social Justice Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York is proud to join the Prospect Park Volunteer Corps in their International Coastal Clean-Up Project, which is part of a world-wide effort to clean our shores worldwide.  Teams of 4 will descend upon Prospect Park Lake, the only lake in Brooklyn, to remove and document all litter found in and around the lake.

If you wish to register, or for further information, please contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript .  Additional information can be found at Prospect Park International Coastal Clean-Up Project.

The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee strives to provide a forum where alumni can enjoy, share in, and learn from leading practicioners in the world capital of fine and performing arts, and support alumni in the arts, through regular presentations and events that will offer opportunities for networking and performance.

Whether you have won a Pulitzer and travel by limousine or are pushing cabs between auditions, come share your ideas and help create a resource to assist us all in our work.

All are welcome. Please RSVP to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Would you like to help New Haven public school students enter and succeed in college?  Do you have an hour a week to spare this semester?  If so, then join College Acceptance, and mentor a high school senior at New Haven public high school located close to Yale's campus.

College Acceptance pairs Yale students with high school students to help them with college applications, and tutor them on their writing, test taking and grammatical skills.  With your help, we can provide disadvantaged students with the same resources as students in more affluent neighborhoods - and it only takes one hour a week.  This mentorship is a great way to get involved in the community, and it is so fulfilling to help a student get into college.  This is also a great way to do something outside of the walls of Yale, and meet students from across the University.

Every day high school students in New Haven deal with inadequate resources in their quest to go to college.  Now it's time to give these students an opportunity to succeed.

If you are interested in joining the group and want to learn more about this opportunity, please come to our info meeting on September 22, Tuesday, at 8:30 p.m. in Room 122 in the Law School Building. If you are interested but cannot make it to the meeting, please email Sam Duprey at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript   or Yunyan Sang at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for more information.

Join the Independent Party as it debates educational policy in practice and theory with the Resolved: Leave Some Children Behind.  What is the purpose of education, both for the child and the society that pays for it, and whose needs should carry greater weight?  All are welcome to debate these and other questions and share their insights from both studying and working in the classroom.  The debate begins at 7:30 on Wednesday in the Branford Common Room.  Feel free to contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript with any questions.

Pancakes for Poverty will DELIVER PANCAKES to your door EVERY WEDNESDAY!!!

$1 for 1 pancake, $2 for 3 pancakes. All proceeds will be used to fund a sustainable development project abroad.

Send an order EVERY WEDNESDAY to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript edu <mailto: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript nourishleaders@panlists.yale.edu> This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript with your name, phone number, quantity and type of pancake, college, room number, and the time you'd like your pancakes delivered. We'll be at your door!

Or if you'd prefer to pick up your pancakes in person, we'll be selling them EVERY WEDNESDAY from 11PM to 1AM in Dwight Hall Common Room!

YSEC: Yale Student Environmental Coalition and NextGEN will be hosting a conference for college environmentalists from across the Northeast.  This will consist of networking, panels, speakers and workshops with the aim of creating a sense of community between colleges in the region.  The list of speakers is as follows:

On Saturday, September 26^th, from 10am to noon people are invited to participate in Climate Action NOW  Bike Ride.   The ride will start on the New Haven Green and progress around New Haven to key sites to educate people about the impacts of climate change on the whole world and particularly on countries like Nicaragua (where New Haven Leon Sister City Project works). The ride will be low impact, relaxed to various sites in New Haven to get the word out about climate change and its impact on places like Nicaragua. (See  http://www.newhavenleon.org/earthathon).  Signs and baloons included.

On Saturday, September 26^th, from 10am to noon people are invited to participate in Climate Action NOW  Bike Ride.   The ride will start on the New Haven Green and progress around New Haven to key sites to educate people about the impacts of climate change on the whole world and particularly on countries like Nicaragua (where New Haven Leon Sister City Project works). The ride will be low impact, relaxed to various sites in New Haven to get the word out about climate change and its impact on places like Nicaragua. (See  http://www.newhavenleon.org/earthathon).

Join us Saturday September 26th to meet the founders of the New Haven-León Sister City project, Alan Wright & Paula Kline.  Come hear about current projects and future plans, as well as reports back from interns and delegates who spent time in León, Nicaragua this summer.
Time:              5 PM (light refreshments) 6 PM (program begins)
Location:        First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Avenue corner of Huntington, New Haven
RSVP:            by email please This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

You have way too much going on

YHHAPs Moment of Service Initiative gets it

Join us for quick, effective, one-shot opportunities to work for our New Haven community

Find a new medium for committed service,

or just come to do something good with a small part of one day

THIS WEEK:

Sunday, September 27^th

1)      10AM-12:30PM Cook Indian Food in the Davenport Kitchen with the Sikh Student Association

2)      12:30PM-2:00PM Serve the meal at the Urban Initiative Taking Initiative Center for the drug and alcoholic addicted homeless

Join us for one part or both (cooking limited to four students, serving to five)

RSVP to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

About the Center:

"The program works with people in New Haven who have not been reached by our addiction service system, as well as those who have tried treatment and had been unsuccessful. The Urban Initiative, a unique alliance of networked agencies, seeks to reach these people so that balance and stability may be restored to their lives. The aim of the program is to engage, motivate and support those served so that they can adopt a healthy daily routine, gain employment, and reconnect with lost relationships and opportunities

"The Taking Initiative Center is a place to foster dialogue about what the next steps may be for recovery. It is also a place where people can safely talk with their peers, consult with counselors, and just get away from their normal daily routine. Individuals can make use of free laundry facility, coffee shop, computer classes, recovery groups and extensive literature."

(http://www.marrakechinc.org/homeless.htm)

Join PHC Lunch with Gabrielle Grode: Friday October 2 at 12:30 PM Saybrook Fellow’s Lounge

Gabrielle Grode is a Research Associate at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University and a Masters in Public Health from Temple University. She is currently completing a certificate in Geographic Information Systems at the University of New Haven. Prior to joining the Rudd Center, Gabrielle worked at the Norwalk Health Department, developing and implementing childhood obesity prevention programs. She has also held positions at The Food Trust, where she worked on a campaign to improve corner store purchases, and at the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, where she conducted needs assessments and program evaluations.  Gabrielle’s research interests include obesity prevention in school and community settings and the intersection of the built environment and health.

In his new book, Pacific Alliance, Kent E. Calder argues that US-Japanese relations are dangerously eroding as both nations seek broader options in a globally oriented world.  In this lecture, Professor Calder will discuss the implications of this changing relationship on East Asian security and offer prescriptions for returning the relationship to vitality again.  Kent Calder is Director of The Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.   Moderated by Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs.

www.japansociety.org/event_detail

• ECHO (Eating Concerns and Health Outreach) presents Jenni Schaefer -- Jenni is an internationally known author, speaker, and singer/songwriter, whose work has helped change the face of recovery from eating disorders. She is a consultant with Center For Change and a member of the Ambassador Council of the National Eating Disorders Association. Her work has been recognized in publications including Cosmopolitan, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and Woman's World. Jenni will be talking about her road to recovery from an Eating Disorder to liberation in her presentation "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me" Join ECHO Wednesday September 30 at 4 PM in the Dwight Hall Common Room!
  

ECHO (Eating Concerns and Health Outreach) presents Jenni Schaefer -- Jenni is an internationally known author, speaker, and singer/songwriter, whose work has helped change the face of recovery from eating disorders. She is a consultant with Center For Change and a member of the Ambassador Council of the National Eating Disorders Association. Her work has been recognized in publications including Cosmopolitan, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and Woman's World. Jenni will be talking about her road to recovery from an Eating Disorder to liberation in her presentation "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me" Join ECHO Wednesday September 30 at 4 PM in the Dwight Hall Common Room!

Fact:  smart but poor kids are 61% less likely to graduate from college than smart rich kids.  The TEAK Fellowship, whose supporters include Priscilla Morales SM'00, helps low-income students succeed at top high schools and mentors them through the college admissions process and beyond.  Three TEAK mentees have matriculated to Yale in the past five years.

DinnerGrrls.org, a women's networking group that believes in career nirvana (founded by me, JE'99), is hosting a casual mixer in concert with an official TEAK fundraiser on the LES.

Learn more, RSVP, all that jazz by clicking here.

"The Future of Media" Panel + Networking Reception

Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) presents an evening networking reception and panel discussion, in coordination with Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES), and Yale Entrepreneurs & Investors in NYC.

What: "The Future of Media" Panel + Networking Reception

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Time: 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM

Location: Smorgas Chef @ Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th & 38th Streets)

Please RSVP: http://yeiyesyaamnyseptember30th2009.eventbrite.com ($10 cover)

"The Future of Media" panel will focus on how traditional media is evolving and the role entrepreneurs can play in this changing landscape. The panel will feature perspectives from both the traditional and digital media industries, as well as the venture capitalist side.

Panelists will include: Joanne Lipman '83 (formerly of Conde Nast's Portfolio), Ernie Sander (Managing Editor at ContentNext Media), Andrew Cedotal '08 (Director, New Media Strategy at Abrams Media), and Mark Patricof (Managing Partner at Mesa Global). Moderator: Ross O'Brien (Partner at New Vernon Financial) 

Panel will be followed by a networking reception. Hors d'oeuvres will be provided.

Interested in learning more about autism awareness events and related service opportunities on campus and beyond? Undergraduate Students for Autism Awareness and Advocacy at Yale (USAAY) will be having an informational meeting next Wednesday September 30 at 7pm in the SJN Room in Dwight Hall. Come and learn about USAAY's mission and activities and about ways to get more involved in the group! If you cannot make the info session but would still like more information, please email This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Pancakes for Poverty will DELIVER PANCAKES to your door EVERY WEDNESDAY!!!

$1 for 1 pancake, $5 for 6 pancakes (plus $1 delivery fee). All proceeds fund a sustainable development project abroad.

Send an order EVERY WEDNESDAY to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  with your name, phone number, quantity and type of pancake, college, and room number. We'll be at your door!

Or if you'd prefer to pick up your pancakes in person, we'll be selling them EVERY WEDNESDAY from 10PM to 12AM in Dwight Hall Common Room!

Don't forget to pick up your frequent customer card. We'll keep track of how many pancakes you buy and once you reach 10, you get 2 free!