Endowments Can Become Too Much of a Good Thing
Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groupsArticles: All of the advice and commentary from this special supplement on endowments Supplement in print: Order print copies of the Endowments supplements from June 2006 and August 2005
By Mark B. Schneider
Contributor
Cautiously, World Vision Creates an Endowment
Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groupsArticles: All of the advice and commentary from this special supplement on endowments Supplement in print: Order print copies of the Endowments supplements from June 2006 and August 2005
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Academic Entrepreneurship at Dickinson College
Chart: Dickinson College’s Endowment: Annual Investment ReturnsChart: Where Dickinson Has Invested Its Endowment Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groups Articles: All of the advice and commentary from this special supplement on endowments Supplement in print: Order print…
By Alvin P. Sanoff
Contributor
At Curtis, the Endowment No Longer Pays for Everything
Chart: How the Curtis Institute of Music’s endowment has faredChart: Where Curtis has invested its endowment Chart: Endowment-spending rates at Curtis Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groups Articles: All of the advice and commentary from this special supplement on…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
How Endowments of 247 Major Nonprofit Organizations Performed
Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groupsArticles: All of the advice and commentary from this special supplement on endowments Supplement in print: Order print copies of the Endowments supplements from June 2006 and August 2005
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
The Boom in Alternative Investments
Charities and colleges put more of their money into hedge funds, private equity, and other assets once considered esoteric Database: How endowment investments fared at 247 nonprofit groupsTable: Endowments at 67 organizations that support nonprofit groups Articles: All of the advice and commentary…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
D.C. Seeks Increased Control of Nonprofit Groups
D.C. seeks increased authority to investigate charities
Relief Groups Suffer Losses in Afghan Riots
Aid charities’ offices suffer damage in Afghan riots
Politicians Accused of Misusing Nonprofit-Mail Rate
California Democrats have accused state Republicans of illegally sending political mailings using the 40-percent discount that the U.S. Postal Service gives to charities, reports The Sacramento Bee. Republicans deny the charge, saying the mailings meet Postal Service rules.
Louisiana Volunteer Camps Closing
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin tearing down its last four Louisiana camps that have housed and fed 40,000 volunteers who came to the city to help areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, reports the Newhouse News Agency. The organization previously had said it would…