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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 2308633, member: 5058"] So I have recently done a bunch of project work at Yale, and just to show the disparity and creative thinking when it comes to fund raising: The project I just completed is in the basement of a building. It was for the college of engineering, yet the main donor is a finance guy. The president of the university was convinced of a need by the dean, and together the convinced the donor of that need in order to get $10 million for a project in the basement. Once well under way, (almost complete really) they sold naming for each room. The going rate I believe was $1 million for the "front" room and $750,000 for any of the others. I know they sold the front room. They also spoke of a family (father and two sons) who have set up a trust with the university. This trust is maintained at about $70 million and whenever the school needs to take a chunk of $10 million or less, they ask the family and are granted funds from the trust. On their campus is "Yale Ivy". They are planting a garden of this stuff which grows like a weed potentially above this basement project. During tours, applicants are taken by this garden and told they can buy a sprig of Yale Ivy for luck with their application process. I believe I was told these "donations" were recorded and included with the application. Wink, wink. Think of the pressure to buy some ivy. A friend of mine, who grew up in affluent Wyckoff NJ was offered grant money as an underprivileged student while attending Yale Law. It's a different level, and you'd better believe Yale sees it as their money. [URL='http://www.giftguide.yale.edu/fundlevel/show/4']Giving to Yale | Yale Office of Development[/URL] [URL='http://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/greenberg-engineering-teaching-concourse-creating-feeling-community']Greenberg Engineering Teaching Concourse Creating[/URL] Edit: another example article of the donor level at high level learning institutions [URL="https://news.yale.edu/2015/05/11/150-million-gift-stephen-schwarzman-establish-first-its-kind-campus-center-yale-universit"]$150 Million Gift by Stephen A. Schwarzman to Establish First-of-its-Kind Campus Center at Yale University[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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