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[edit] Universities and colleges can be charities

Many universities and college qualify as charities for donations, but some are for-profit. The category was properly removed. -- Usgnus 00:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

99.9% of Colleges and Universities in Canada qualify as charities, and thus the cat should be readded. Ardenn 00:09, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Famous Steven Wright quotation: "42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot." ;-) -- Usgnus 03:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

The Canada Revenue Agency charity database can shed light on this. Try searching that website for a Canadian university/college. Almost all are present and appear therefore to have the legal definition of charitable organization. I checked for example University Canada West to check for the status of for-profit enterprises, and it wasn't found in the database, but I wasn't sure if that was due just to how the university is a relatively new creation. I hadn't thought of checking Devry, and so I just did, and it also was not found. So my current assumption is that all public, non-profit and private, non-profit universities and colleges are charitable organizations. This does leave a few exceptions like Devry, but this information is still interesting for all the other universities, perhaps a seperate list or category could be made to note their status as charitable organizations. Kurieeto 12:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I could be wrong, I suppose (wouldn't be the first time), but my impression was always that many public universities and colleges have separate charitable foundations incorporated for things like fundraising, but that the institutions themselves weren't charities per se. I wouldn't object to readding the category if it's appropriate, but I'd prefer that we had a clearer source than the presence of universities in the federal charity database (which could just as easily be explained by the foundations.) Is there a source available somewhere which clearly states that public universities qualify as charitable organizations in and of themselves? Bearcat 18:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)