After listening quietly to her fellow board members for nearly an hour, Ms. Abrams proposes a different solution to the institute's projected funding shortfall. The institute has never been involved in advocacy or activism in any way. However, one of its faculty members, Ernst Ettinger, is a well-known political artist. Ettinger has created a work called "Trump," in which a small statue of Donald Trump is placed in a glass full of the artist's urine. The artist explains that the work is critical of the Republican Party's lack of support for the arts—as evidenced by, among other things, annual budget proposals by the Trump administration that would have eliminated funding for the arts—and the sculpture includes text that reads, "Donald Trump was a poor president because he didn't support the arts."
Noting that Donald Trump has already announced his plan to run for president in 2024, Ms. Abrams excitedly informs you and her fellow board members that she has spoken with donors who would like to conduct a 27-month, 50-state tour of Ettinger's work, including the Trump sculpture. The tour would begin in October 2022, shortly before the November term elections, and continue through the 2024 presidential election. If the institute agrees to conduct the tour, the donors will donate all of the costs of the tour to the institute, plus an additional $2,500,000—more than enough to cover next year's budget shortfall. The donors expect the national tour to cost $500,000 in travel expenses, ads, fees paid to venues, and the like.
Question (answer in 1,000 words or less):
Please provide your recommendations to the board regarding whether to conduct the tour and accept the donations. If you see any legal or non-legal risks in doing so, please describe them. Please provide guidance to the board regarding whether there is a way to conduct the activity to minimize these risks.