Conditions of Gift Letter Templates
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Research Support
Attachment 1, the Conditions of Gift Letter Template for Research Support, is recommended for documenting simple, one-time expendable gifts from companies, professional foundations, and associations supporting faculty research. This template may be used for gifts of any amount, but is not to be used for endowment gifts, pledges (multi-year commitments), or building projects.
Please contact your appropriate Corporate and/or Foundations Relations representative in OOD, MCD or your applicable school-specific development team before initiating a gift letter, so that any relevant due diligence can be completed. Complete the required information in the form before sending it to the donor for signature. If a donor requests any variances to the gift agreement terms, including for more complicated gift types noted above, please bring in your appropriate Corporate and/or Foundations Relations representative.
The Conditions of Gift Letter Template for Research Support should be used when the agreement needs to be signed by an authorized signatory of both the donor and Stanford—in the case of Stanford, gift agreements may only be signed by the Vice President for Development. If the donor does not require a Stanford countersignature, please refer to Attachment 3, the Unilateral Conditions of Gift Letter Template.
Programmatic or Other Support
Attachment 2, the Conditions of Gift Letter Template for Programmatic or Other Support, is recommended for documenting simple, one-time expendable gifts from companies, professional foundations, and associations supporting programs, projects or initiatives that are not exclusively for faculty research. This template may be used for gifts of any amount, but is not to be used for endowment gifts, pledges (multi-year commitments), or building projects.
Please contact your appropriate Corporate and/or Foundations Relations representative in OOD, MCD or your applicable school-specific development team before initiating a gift letter, so that any relevant due diligence can be completed. Complete the required information in the form before sending it to the donor for signature. If a donor requests any variances to the gift agreement terms, including for more complicated gift types noted above, please bring in your appropriate Corporate and/or Foundations Relations representative.
The Conditions of Gift Letter Template for Programmatic or Other Support should be used when the agreement needs to be signed by an authorized signatory of both the donor and Stanford—in the case of Stanford, gift agreements may only be signed by the Vice President for Development. If the donor does not require a Stanford countersignature, please refer to Attachment 3, the Unilateral Conditions of Gift Letter Template.
Unilateral Conditions of Gift Letter Template
Attachment 3, the Unilateral Conditions of Gift Letter Template, is recommended for documenting simple, one-time expendable gifts from companies, professional foundations, and associations where the donor does not require a Stanford countersignature. This template may be only used for gifts of less than $100,000 from domestic donors and gifts of less than $50,000 from foreign donors. This template is not to be used for endowment gifts, pledges (multi-year commitments), or building projects.
Please complete the required information in the form before sending it to the donor for signature. If a donor requests any variances to the gift agreement terms, including for more complicated gift types noted above, please contact your appropriate Corporate and/or Foundations Relations representative in OOD, MCD or your applicable school-specific development team.
If a donor requests a Stanford countersignature, please refer to Attachment 1, the Conditions of Gift Letter Template for Research Support, or Attachment 2, the Conditions of Gift Letter Template for Programmatic or Other Support, as applicable.