{"id":455705,"date":"2026-09-06T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455705\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:24:13","slug":"the-center-has-19-million-reasons-to-rebuild-public-confidence-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/455705\/","title":{"rendered":"The Center has 19 million reasons to rebuild public confidence \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cThe $19 million gift that should have united us\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/09\/01\/opinion-the-19-million-gift-that-should-have-united-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 1<\/a>): Ted Callam\u2019s thoughtful commentary identifies an important failure of leadership surrounding the extraordinary $19 million Thimot-Rawnsley gift. But there may be another consequence: legacy gifts the San Diego LGBT Community Center may now never receive.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Thimot and Rust Rawnsley provided a remarkable example for older LGBTQ+ San Diegans. They chose to leave substantial resources to an organization they trusted to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ older adults.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy over how the gift has been administered risks sending the wrong message to prospective legacy donors. For older LGBTQ+ adults considering where to leave their estates, trust is everything. They need confidence their intentions will be honored after they are gone.<\/p>\n<p>The Center can rebuild that confidence through transparency, clear accounting and renewed commitment to the older LGBTQ+ community the donors intended to benefit. A $19 million legacy gift should have inspired the next generation of legacy donors. Perhaps it still can.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Blackstock, Mission Hills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cThe $19 million gift that should have united us\u201d (Sept. 1): Ted Callam\u2019s thoughtful commentary identifies an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-455705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}