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Involving a trustee in a project's implementation complexities can get their visceral juices flowing, and in the right circumstances, commitments can flow beyond imagination. The author watched in fascination as a $3 million building project sponsored by a donor ran into local zoning issues. With the donor on the project team (including his involvement in direct negotiation with the city bureaucrats), over six years the project budget ultimately grew to over $20 million, much of it covered by the original donor who was appalled by the regulatory environment and what he saw as regulatory abuse. Fortunately, he reacted with both fury and also personal generosity. The deeper one gets involved in execution details, the more one's personal financial prudence can fly out the door as commitment to task completion grows at any cost.