Appendix F - Examples of Gifts, Sponsored Projects, and External Sales
Gifts
Sponsored Projects
External Sales

General Examples
  • Gifts may be given for any purpose (Scholarships, research, faculty awards, fellowships, buildings etc.)
  • They come in the form of:
  • Cash
  • Life Insurance proceeds
  • Real Estate
  • Securities
  • Collectibles
  • Patent Rights
  • Honoraria
General Examples
  • Basic Research
  • Applied Research
  • Fellowships
  • Institutional Training Grants
  • Public Service Grants







General Examples
  • Departmental consulting and professional services
  • Routine testing of equipment or medical devices**
  • Routine laboratory testing services
  • Lease of facilities or equipment
  • Sale of intangible property
  • Sale of services
Specific Examples
  • Corporate Memberships*
  • Support of a conference or symposium***
  • $1,000,000 cash contribution for the construction of a new basic sciences building on campus
  • $10,000 cash contribution to support a conference in distance learning
  • Contribution of rare books to University library
  • Contribution of 200 shares of stock
  • Contribution of farm acreage for use in agricultural education
  • Contribution through deferred gift vehicles, such as charitable remainder trusts or charitable annuity trusts







Specific Examples
  • Clinical Drug Trials
  • Applied testing of equipement, products, processes
  • Support of a conference or symposium (partial or complete)***
  • Travel grants
  • Double blind placebo-controlled phase-3 trial of a commercially developed experimental drug
  • System designs in pipeline transportation
  • Nurse-midwife and nurse-practitioner program
  • Winter wastewater environmental monitoring study
  • Project to evaluate competetive conditions for white pine seedlings
  • Grants for predoctoral training in family medicine







Specific Examples
  • Veterinary medical clinic for dog and cat care
  • Testing blood samples for pharmaceutical company
  • Laboratory essays for a private company
  • Lease of museum for wedding reception
  • Lease of aerospace tunnel to private industry
  • Sale of agricultural by-products like ice cream or apples
  • Corporate memberships*
  • General support services (e.g. word processing, billing)
  • Advertising
  • Athletic facility rental
  • Box Office Sales
  • Catering
  • Computer rental time
  • Conference Income***
  • Surgical services for outside hospitals
  • Industry affiliate memberships

* May be a gift or external sale depending on the terms of the agreement

** May be a sponsored project if it involves human subject, lab animals, radiological hazards, biohazards, or recombinant DNA

*** May be a sponsored project if requested by sponsor.


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