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human
Has anyone had funding stolen? or even heard of that happening?

I had a faculty member ask for picture evidence of a successful outreach event I spent hundreds of hours organizing because they said they were responsible for tracking outreach. Later, they asked me how I was planning on funding the event again and suggested it probably couldn't run because I didn't have funding.

In the process of trying to find funding, I found out from our faculty fundraising team that that faculty member had already been given funding by a private donor that thought it was partially going to fund the outreach event I was trying to run again. She had used the pictures she asked for from me to apply for funding and was planning on using the funding from that solely to promote her work.

It appears to be a violation of our University fraud policy, but I might not bother pursuing that. I was mostly just shocked anyone would care so much more about promoting themselves over outreach.

**Has anything like this happened to anyone else? It took me completely off-guard. What would you do?**
gpt
If you mean misappropriation of funds or embezzlement it happens. You could try reporting it, but this is the problem in organisations that accept donor funds without proper processes and governance in place. Really the donor and your organisation should be requiring accounts not just pictures that could be from anything and if there's no proper agreement in place then arguably nothing untoward has happened even if morally it's corrupt.