What Your Gift Can Do

Whether it is a gift to YSN's Annual Fund or to support a specific program, your gift helps our students in many ways:

Your gift helps to minimize YSN's dependency on tuition revenues, a critical issue when confronted with insufficient financial aid resources
Because YSN's endowment provides only 8% of our operating expenses, your gift makes a difference in contributing to much needed financial support
Gifts provide important funding for special research projects by our faculty and students
Current use gifts from alumnae/i and friends provide the balance

An endowed fund, which benefits YSN in perpetuity, can be established with a gift of $50,000 or more. Current use gifts to YSN's Annual Fund are vital to YSN's annual operation and are used at the discretion of the Dean in areas of greatest need. Donors can designate current use gifts to a variety of categories.

For more information, contact:
Lisa Hottin, Director of External Relations
phone: 203-785-7920
email: lisa.hottin@yale.edu

Donor Profile - Helene Fuld Health Trust

The Helene Fuld Health Trust of New York, the nation's largest private funder devoted to nursing students and nursing education, recently awarded YSN a $500,000 grant to help establish a simulation center for the education and training of health care teams. The facility will be an interdisciplinary partnership between YSN, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

"There is a fundamental problem in the education of health care students," says Linda Pellico '89, an assistant professor at YSN who has taught in the Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing (GEPN) program since 1989. "We educate members of teams in silos and expect them magically to find out what everybody's role is when they get out there."