UConn Advance - January 22, 2007 - Ethics ruling hampers fund-raising efforts

UConn Advance - January 22, 2007 - Ethics ruling hampers fund-raising efforts: "Ethics ruling hampers fund-raising efforts
by Karen A. Grava - January 22, 2007

A ruling by the state Ethics Citizen's Advisory Board last spring has had a significant and detrimental impact on corporate giving to state entities, including UConn.

The ruling interferes with the ability of all state entities but most directly with the ability of UConn, the vocational technical schools, and the other public colleges to raise private funds, by prohibiting gifts from any vendor doing business with the state agency to which it plans to give funds or from any company that employs a lobbyist.

“The original ban on gifts applied only to individual state employees,” says Rachel Rubin, chief compliance officer."