What Difference Endowments Can Make — and How to Build Them

Endowments and How to Grow Them: Practical Ideas, Survey Results, Practical Anecdotes, by Joseph O. Bull, is a booklet designed for fund raisers, board members, and donors who want to know how building an endowment can help improve the fiscal health of a charity. Among the “seven endowment essentials”: defining the goals of the endowment, developing consistent and specific written policies about it, and promoting opportunities to donate to it. The booklet also contains the condensed results of a survey conducted by the newsletter Planned Giving Today that show how 135 nonprofit groups manage their endowments. Mr. Bull is director of planned giving at Ohio State University.

Publisher: Planned Giving Today, 100 Second Avenue South, Suite 180, Edmonds, Wash. 98020; (425) 744-3837; fax (425) 744-3838; http://www.pgtoday.com; 8 pages; $19.