<p>This does NOT help, unless you are donating serious money ie building-named-after-you money. At the last fundraising effort, it cost $50,000 to get your name on a half-inch plaque in a four feet square study-cubicle in the basement of the library, so unless your name is Vanderbilt or Bass, your donations don’t go a long way at all
[YALE</a> » Tomorrow | Yale Office of Development](<a href=“http://www.givingcatalog.yale.edu/fundlevel/show/1]YALE”>http://www.givingcatalog.yale.edu/fundlevel/show/1)</p>