Greetings all,
I have a situation I haven't come across before. We have a check from a donor who would like to pay for a professor's teaching buy out so they can work on a research project this fall. Usually this would be a corporate grant running through our Research Foundation, but this is just an individual who heard a lecture by the professor and wants to support their research. So no benefit to the donor, but I'm wondering if this is conferring a personal benefit to the professor. The University is benefitting from her research, which is in partnership with an international university, so no corporate deliverables involved. The department swears it's a donation and this money is not personally owed by the professor, but I wanted to see if anyone here has dealt with this before.
Thanks!
Rebecca
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Rebecca Vigeant
Gift Processing Manager
URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement
rvigeant@uri.edu------------------------------