Canadian Case Informs American Philanthropists
March 13, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
A dispute over a donor’s bequest in New Brunswick, Canada, is shedding light on the importance of naming clear intentions with such donations, reports Fortune Magazine.
Trustees of the Beaverbrook Foundation say the newspaper magnate Sir William Maxwell Aitken, known as Lord Beaverbrook, intended only 40 of his paintings to be gifts to a gallery in New Brunswick. But the charity insists the gift included the entire collection of 133 pieces. Mr. Aitken died in 1964.
Read The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s story on this complex case and implications for donors and charities in the United States.
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