An interesting new policy was adopted last year by Bama's Panhellenic. All donations had to be included in your total budget even though the chapter didn't spend the money. For example, if an Alum Assoc or a wealthy parent donated all the flowers they had to turn over the receipt and that counted against your total budget. The purpose was to make things more fair to those chapters who didn't have those sorts of benefactors available to them.
An interesting new policy was adopted last year by Bama's Panhellenic. All donations had to be included in your total budget even though the chapter didn't spend the money. For example, if an Alum Assoc or a wealthy parent donated all the flowers they had to turn over the receipt and that counted against your total budget. The purpose was to make things more fair to those chapters who didn't have those sorts of benefactors available to them.
They have been budgeting for donations at Cal this way since at least 2000/2001 when I started helping out there.