The Yale Alumni Fund community strives to promote an environment of inclusivity and acceptance where all people feel valued and respected. We are proactively committed to upholding the standards outlined below in all aspects of our daily work and interactions.
The Yale Alumni Fund Community:
- Welcomes feedback from Yale community members to increase our understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Sees diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as connected to our daily work and interactions and critical to ensuring the well-being of our staff and the communities we serve.
- Acknowledges and addresses any inequities within our policies, programs, and environment.
- Explores potential underlying, unquestioned assumptions that interfere with inclusiveness.
- Advocates for and supports thinking among senior managers about how systemic inequities impact our institution’s work and interactions, and how best to address that in a way that is consistent with Yale’s mission.
- Challenges assumptions about what it takes to be a leader and positions itself to provide leadership opportunities across the Yale community.
- Practices and encourages timely, intentional and transparent communications that address diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Commits time and resources to expand diverse representation within our volunteer, donor and staff communities.
- Leads with respect and tolerance.
This is a living statement. The leadership of the Alumni Fund will periodically reevaluate the resources and methods by which we promote a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and honor the commitment to grow in this area.
Yale University’s Equal Opportunity Statement
The university is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and affirmatively seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons of diverse backgrounds. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.