Fundraisers for charity frequently cite the Donor Bill of Rights, created by the Association of Fundraising Professionals and other professional fundraising organizations, as evidence of the charity’s good stewardship of charitable contributions.  But what happens when a disgruntled donor claims the charity failed to live up to the high ideals it espoused?

Children of the settlors of a charitable trust have no standing, simply because they are children of the settlors, to seek appointment as trustees of the trust, a Pennsylvania appellate court has held.

An appellate court in Pennsylvania has rejected a claim that a nonprofit formed to promote the arts should be prohibited from selling its building because it had failed to adequately consider alternatives that would avoid destruction of the building and its unique mosaic façade.  The Court reversed a trial court decision holding that the organization was obligated to show that the decision, “which would all but assure the destruction of the façade,” was in the best interest of the organization and the public to which it is dedicated to serve.

A trial court in Texas has no jurisdiction to hear a breach of contract suit brought by parents of students expelled from a religious school, the Court of Appeals of Texas has held, because “any decision regarding the merits of this dispute would require judicial intrusion upon [the School’s] entitlement to manage its internal affairs according to its own policies and beliefs.”