​Yale Undergraduate Students for UNICEF is committed to increasing involvement by the university and local community with UNICEF's national fundraising campaigns as well as crisis-response causes, both to promote awareness and to help children in need. However, New Haven and Yale are very unique communities, so this often involves finding new and creative ways to engage students and the city.​



​National Projects
​Trick-or-Treat Campaign - October - Official Website

​Every Halloween, UNICEF holds a "Kids Helping Kids" Trick-or-Treat Campaign, wherein trick-or-treaters ask for change for UNICEF instead of candy. With a shortage of Trick-or-Treaters in New Haven, Yale UNICEF instead reaches out to local businesses, asking them to place UNICEF's iconic Trick-or-Treat boxes by their cash registers during the month of October and working with them to arrange other festive events to benefit UNICEF. On campus, we work with various undergraduate organizations to organize benefit events such as study breaks and shows.

​Tap Project - March - Official Website
Each spring, the US branch of UNICEF engages restaurants nationwide in the Tap Project, enlisting them to ask patrons for a $1 donation in exchange for their normally free glass of water. All donations benefit children's access to clean drinking water worldwide. Yale UNICEF has worked hard to put New Haven on the Tap Project map, recruiting local restaurants to participate, but also raising money through other means, including collection boxes and benefits with businesses. An annual comedy show with Yale Improv Comedy groups to benefit Tap Project is routinely one of our largest fundraising efforts of the year.