An unusual victory for donor intent at Trinity College
The struggle to preserve donor intent in college gifts is often a melancholy tale of schools using every tool they have to reduce or ignore the wishes of donors. I…
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A New Kansas Law Protects Donor Intent
Earlier this year, in a landmark action, the Kansas legislature passed the Donor Intent Protection Act, which helps ensure that donors’ wishes are respected when they make a charitable gift…
Feminist College Funders and the Problem of Donor Intent
…20th century faced exactly the same questions. She shows that the efforts of these donors, when successful, were a triumph for donor intent. Those who insisted on tight restrictions on…
Donors Beware: College Officials Have Their Own Ideas About Using Your Money
…Media article, Tyler O’Neil interviewed Nixon, who said, “Donor intent is really important. Donors appreciate that the commitment of their generosity lives beyond their time on earth. When I looked…
No, Academia, Title VI Funding Is Not for Your Pleasure
…of course instructors instead of just their academic rank. Only through examining the details will the real picture of how academia subverts donor intent emerge. Whether the ED letter heralds…
How Colleges Rip Off Donors
…the wishes of donors (what’s known as “donor intent”) are rarely followed 30 years after a donor’s death, when his children are considering their own mortality and his friends and…
A Donor-Intent Controversy at Middlebury College
…Mead’s gift.So what should we make of John Mead and Middlebury’s decision to remove his name from the chapel that he built? Is it a violation of donor intent? If…
Don’t Feed Academia’s Wasteful Practices
…academic center, a speaker series, or an endowed professorship. Yet, even the donor intent of well-structured donations is sometimes violated. Donors can also make more of a difference by looking…
For University Endowments, There’s No Time like the Present
…management is nearly limitless. As Fransen wrote in an email, “the real shenanigans occur not in the structure of the agreement, but in the shifting adherence to donor intent.” But…
Games Universities Play: And How Donors Can Avoid Them
…that universities often neglect the wishes of contributors. “Games Universities Play: And How Donors Can Avoid Them” offers illustrations of such failures to honor donor intent as the Robertson family’s…