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A donor makes a promise to a charity to donate $100,000, and the charity, relying on the pledge, begins constructing a new building. The donor then refuses to pay. Under contract law tested on the MBE, what is the charity's strongest theory to enforce the pledge?

Promissory estoppel, because the charity reasonably and foreseeably relied on the promise to its detriment Bargained-for consideration, because the building benefits the donor Quasi-contract, because the donor was unjustly enriched There is no theory; charitable pledges are never enforceable

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Promissory estoppel, because the charity reasonably and foreseeably relied on the promise to its detriment

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