Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Yale  Yale News Each year, the incoming leaders of Roosevelt Institution chapters gather at the FDR Estate in Hyde Park, New York. Photos by Nick Bradley. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful." — Teddy Roosevelt    Yale > Roosevelt Home > Yale Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: Roosevelt Institution at Yale About Us | Policy Centers | Press Room | For Faculty | For Professionals | Policy Archive | Contact Us The Yale Chapter of the Roosevelt Institution is a founding chapter of a national network of student think tanks. We organize students into policy centers that conduct original policy research and propose solutions to the problems facing our society at all levels. Roosevelt works to build relationships with relavent policymakers in order to put students' ideas into action. Latest News Roosevelt Fellow Ben Lazarus was invited to testify before the Washington, DC City Council during their hearing about the practice of predatory payday lending. Lazarus testified based on his research with the Center on Economic Policy. (more...) Former Center on International Development Co-Director Emily Morrell spent the summer in Rwanda working for the international NGO that she co-founded, Gardens for Health International (GHI), along with another Roosevelt Fellow from Brown. GHI works to build community gardens to provide the necessary nutritional support for HIV and AIDS patients. (more...) Five Roosevelt Fellows from the Yale Chapter presented at the Roosevelt National Policy Expo in Washington, DC in July. They presented their research on microcredit in New Haven, predatory payday lending, health insurance mandates, and higher education access to an audience of members of Congres and staffers, advocacy organizations, and other members of the DC policy community. Six groups of Yale students were published in the Roosevelt Institution's national publication series, 25 Ideas. The three 25 Ideas issues will be distributed to every member of Congress, along with thousands of state and local lawmakers around the country. Latest Policy Predatory Payday Lending Sustainable Food Community Health Gardens in Rwanda College Outreach & Advising Programs                                       Policy Centers Center on Economic Policy: meetings Thursdays at 6pm in the Silliman Dining Annex (to the left of the dining hall)       Expanding and Improving Microcredit Initiatives in New Haven       Affordable Housing and Homelessness in New Haven and Connecticut Center on Education: meetings Tuesdays at 8pm in the Trumbull Seminar Room (above the dining hall)      Increasing Socioeconomic Diversity in Public Schools      Evaluating the Success of Teach for America in New Haven      Improving Teacher Retention in New Haven Center on the Environment: STEP meetings Thusrdays at 7pm in the Branford Common Room; 1000 Friends of CT meetings TBA      Evaluation of the Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership (STEP) at Yale Center on International Development: meetings Thursdays at 7pm in the Davenport Seminar Room (second floor of entryway N)      Developing Alternative Energy Sources for Rural Communities      Incentives to Reduce Homelessness in Developing Countries Center on Public Health: meetings Sundays at 4pm in the Trumbull Common Room      Expanding Medical Outreach to Native American Communities       Providing Health Insurance for Undocumented Children Center on Security and Foreign Policy: Middle East meetings Mondays at 7pm in the Timothy Dwight Common Room - Immigration meetings Thursdays at 6pm in the Timothy Dwight Dining Hall      Inequality and the Roots of Mexican Immigration      Fostering Communication and Dialogue in Middle Eastern Communities   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359