Most foundations in the U.S. are set up to exist in perpetuity - never paying out more than 5% of their assets yearly.
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Sample job descriptions for President and CEO or Executive Director positions at community foundations.
This guide was developed by a joint working group of the Council on Foundations and the European Foundation Centre. It identifies eight principles of good disaster grantmaking and offers a number of tips to help grantmakers address disasters more effectively, including facts and figures about recent major disasters around the world and a list of useful disaster information websites.
Join this timely session to get practical tools and guidance from industry experts as well as exchange peer learnings including concrete ideas and steps on how to create an effective impact report that balances competing demands from a range of stakeholders.
This study of family foundations in 2008 summarizes key findings regarding how many active family foundations are planning to spend down or exist in perpetuity (or have not yet made a decision), and examines their motivations and decision-making.
Chris DeCardy has been named as the new President of The Heinz Endowments after a 10-month national executive search.
Based on survey responses of 205 leaders of nonprofit organizations with annual expenses between $100,000 and $100 million, Nonprofit Diversity Efforts: Current Practices and the Role of Foundations provides a collection of data on topics such as how diversity relates to the work of nonprofits and what demographic information nonprofits and funders alike are collecting — and how that information is used. The data in this report can inform foundation leaders and staff as they consider how they can most helpfully engage with their grantees on the topic of diversity.
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In the fifth session in WRAG's Putting Racism on the Table series (2016), Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, discussed the experience of nonblack racial minorities in America, the implications of demographic change, and the urgent need to invest in equity.
More than ten years ago, Gregg Behr of The Grable Foundation convened a s