Feature: SaveWCAL to file Petition for Review with Minnesota Supreme Court

This past weekend, the board of SaveWCAL met to review and discuss the recent decision by the Minnesota Court of Appeals regarding SaveWCAL's Petition To Redress Breach Of Trust.
The board has decided to file a Petition to Review with the Minnesota Supreme Court.Related Posts:Minnesota Court of Appeals issues WCAL decisionMN Court of Appeals changes venue [...]

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Minnesota Court of Appeals issues WCAL decision

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This morning at 10:00 a.m. the Minnesota Court of Appeals filed its decision in the WCAL case. Related Posts:SaveWCAL files Appeal Reply BriefApril 20, 2009: SaveWCAL files Notice with Minnesota Court of AppealsWhy SaveWCAL has an excellent case for appealJune 20, 2008: SaveWCAL to AG: WCAL sale must be voided / MPR was co-conspiratorArticle in [...]

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TRIPLE your donation today!

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Today is GiveMN — a day when individuals are being encouraged to give to their favorite nonprofit organizations and contributions will be matched out out of a pool of funds available until 8 a.m. on Wednesday, November 18.
SaveWCAL is included in the list. To donate and automatically double your gift, go to http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Savewcal
But we have [...]

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St. Olaf names two new "WCAL" Distinguished Professors

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St. Olaf College has announced two appointees to the Distinguished Professorships created with the "repurposing" of the funds they obtained through the sale of WCAL charitable trust assets.
Wendell Arneson of the Art and Art History department has been named Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor and Gary Stansell of the Religion Department has been [...]

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Massachusetts AG investigating Brandeis for violating donor intent; Judge denies BU's motion and issues injunction

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The Brandeis University student newspaper, The Hoot, is reporting that a Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Court judge has denied the University's motion to dismiss a lawsuit by three of the Rose Art Museum directors.
In addition, he has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the University from selling any art donated by those directors — 500 of [...]

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Future of Newcomb College group to appeal

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TFoNC (The Future of Newcomb College) has just announced its decision to appeal a Louisiana court's ruling regarding the fate of Newcomb College. TFoNC is the group of alumnae and others supporting legal efforts to force Tulane University to re-open Newcomb College. The appeal was announced in the press and in "The DaisyChain", the [...]

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Brandeis University president resigns

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The Wall Street Journal and other sources report that Brandeis University president Jehuda Reinharz has resigned from a contract that was not set to expire until 2014. The WSJ article said:
Brandeis said the resignation wasn't connected with the Rose Art Museum flap, which has drawn international criticism and a lawsuit from members of the museum's [...]

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Donor intent is going to the dogs…

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In article from PRWire that appeared on Earthtimes.org titled "Landmark Helmsley Legal Trust Challenge by America's Three Pre-Eminent Animal Welfare Organizations", three of the country's most prominent animal welfare organizations — in what they are terming the most significant financial litigation in animal welfare history — have filed suit in New York's Surrogate Court to [...]

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Summary Judgment Motion Filed in Newcomb College Case

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We received the following from the Save Newcomb College folks today:

Motion Declares that University Must “Acknowledge, Honor and Implement Mrs. Newcomb’s Donor Intent”
NEW ORLEANS, May 27 – Susan Henderson Montgomery, a successor of Josephine Louise Newcomb, who endowed Tulane University’s H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College through a bequest and earlier series of gifts, petitioned the [...]

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Article in New York Times: Keep Donations Flexible Now to Avoid Conflict Tomorrow

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A May 3 posting on the Wise Philanthropy blog, titled "Donor Intent – ask the hard questions early" referred us to a May 1 New York Times article in the Wealth Matters column by Paul Sullivan, titled "Keep Donations Flexible Now to Avoid Conflict Tomorrow".
Unfortunately, Richard Marker's Wise Philanthropy post mainly deals with individual donors [...]

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Waldorf College to be sold to for-profit institution

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On April 24, 2009 the Des Moines Register published an article titled "Waldorf College sale takes a step forward".
The article reports that historically Lutheran Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, is moving closer to selling its assets to an online-only, for-profit university in Alabama — Columbia Southern University.
Waldorf's longtime governing body, an association of 190 [...]

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SaveWCAL makes the Wall Street Journal

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Today the Wall Street Journal published an article by higher education reporter John Hechinger titled "New Unrest on Campus as Donors Rebel".
The article featured SaveWCAL's efforts as one of a number of  cases across the nation where donors are trying to hold institutions to legal and ethical responsibilities regarding donor intent.
Financially strapped colleges are angering [...]

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