Museums Grapple With Onerous Restrictions on Donations - NYTimes.com

Museums Grapple With Onerous Restrictions on Donations - NYTimes.com: For museums and other institutions confronted with the sometimes onerous restrictions that donors place on major gifts, forever can be a very long time.

Group Mounts Legal Challenge to Barnes Art Move, Citing Misleading Status - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Group Mounts Legal Challenge to Barnes Art Move, Citing Misleading Status - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Activists who unsuccessfully fought the relocation of the Barnes Foundation art collection to a downtown museum in Philadelphia are seeking to reopen their legal case, citing a blog post in which a former foundation leader said the group was not close to broke when it sought the move, the Associated Press reports.

Donor's Descendant Sues Brandeis U. Over Planned Demolition - Philanthropy.com

Donor's Descendant Sues Brandeis U. Over Planned Demolition - Philanthropy.com: "Donor's Descendant Sues Brandeis U. Over Planned Demolition

The great nephew of a 1950s donor to Brandeis University has filed suit to prevent the school from razing a science building named for his great uncle, reports The Wall Street Journal."

New Unrest on Campus as Donors Rebel - WSJ.com

New Unrest on Campus as Donors Rebel - WSJ.com: "HARTFORD, Conn. -- Financially strapped colleges are angering their benefactors by selling school radio stations, auctioning Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and dipping into endowments for purposes their donors may not have intended.

In one previously undisclosed fight, Trinity College in Connecticut is facing government scrutiny for its plan to spend part of a $9 million endowment from Wall Street investing legend Shelby Cullom Davis."

Dogs Get Small Bite of Helmsley Grants - WSJ.com

Dogs Get Small Bite of Helmsley Grants - WSJ.com: "NEW YORK -- Trustees for the estate of Leona Helmsley announced $136 million in charitable gifts Tuesday, using their court-sanctioned authority to override the wishes of the late real-estate tycoon, who wanted her money spent on behalf of dogs."

Renee Seblatnigg: Charitable giving bolstered by court | ShreveportTimes | The Times

Renee Seblatnigg: Charitable giving bolstered by court | ShreveportTimes | The Times: "The court's July 1 ruling in Howard v. Tulane is a case in point. The broad question at issue was whether Tulane University, as recipient and steward of charitable gifts from Josephine Louise Newcomb, acted improperly when it dissolved the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College — named for her daughter — and confiscated its endowment."

TheStar.com | GTA | Sears sues over Ryerson sign

TheStar.com | GTA | Sears sues over Ryerson sign: "Store chain says $10M donation was supposed to get name on a building, not a pillar Nov 21, 2007 04:30 AM Daniel Girard Education Reporter As Ryerson University celebrates a new lecture theatre named for clothier Harry Rosen, Sears is wondering where its building is. The department store giant is claiming that instead of getting the promised top billing on a building on the downtown campus in exchange for $10 million in donations, it's left with a lousy little plaque in the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, named for a guy who forked over half that much."