An employee of a foundation who complained of being fired for reporting alleged fundraising violations has a private right of action under the whistleblower protection provisions of the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, an appellate court in the state has ruled. A 10-year employee was terminated by the Lustgarten Foundation on what she said were pretextual charges after filing an anonymous complaint to the cablevision company that provides all of the funding and administrative support to the foundation. She claimed retaliation under the whistleblower provision in the Law. The defendants argued that the law provided no private right of action to an employee. A trial court agreed, but...