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By Ann Logue on February 26, 2013
Yes, there are free colleges. There are not many, and they are not for everyone, and some may not be free much longer, but they do exist. What are they? The first three, and maybe the best known, are the U.S. Service Academies: Air Force Academy, West Point, and U.S. Naval Academy. The next two [...]
Posted in College Admissions and Costs, Nonprofit and Endowment Management | Tagged Alice Lloyd, Berea College, Cooper Union, Curtis Institute, free colleges, free tuition, no tuition, paying for college, U.S. Service Academies, Webb Institute |
By Ann Logue on February 6, 2013
Donor-advised funds are major players in the charity world. These are foundation funds managed by an outside organization (often a community foundation), but the person who donates the money chooses what charities will receive the money. The National Philanthropic Trust reported on the results of these funds last year, and the news was good. Assets [...]
Posted in Fiduciary responsibility, Hedge Funds, Nonprofit and Endowment Management, Socially Responsible Investing | Tagged donor-advised funds, foundations |
By Ann Logue on February 6, 2013
There’s an interesting new development in the endless search for yield: the Social Impact Bond. The idea is that the bond will finance a charitable program, and the investors will be repaid if the program hits its goals. There’s a lot of talk about it, although very few of these bonds have actually been issued, [...]
Posted in Nonprofit and Endowment Management, Socially Responsible Investing, Uncategorized | Tagged endowment management, non-profit management, Rockefeller Foundation, social impact bonds, Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies |
By Ann Logue on February 5, 2013
The annual NACUBO-Commonfund report on college and university endowment values is out. The value of each endowment includes the effect of investment returns, spending, and donations through June 2012, and, on average, it was negative: the average endowment posted a return of -0.3 percent (net of fees) for the year, a decline from the 19.2 average [...]
Posted in College Admissions and Costs, Hedge Funds, Nonprofit and Endowment Management | Tagged college admissions and costs, Commonfund, endowment management, endowment values, NACUBO, paying for college |
By Ann Logue on July 31, 2012
America’s universities are mostly funded by private funds: tuition and donations. Yes, even private universities receive government funding, but the volume of state and federal dollars has been steadily declining. Who provides the money, and how much they give, affects the amount of non-loan financial aid available, what you get for that money, and how [...]
Posted in College Admissions and Costs, Fiduciary responsibility, Nonprofit and Endowment Management | Tagged boards of trustees, college education, donors, fundraising, non-profit managment, paying for college, scholarships, stewardship |
By Ann Logue on June 15, 2012
The Washingtonian Magazine has a long story about management tensions at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank. The most interesting part, to me, was this tidbit: the Cato Institute has shareholders because Kansas corporation law allows non-profits to have a corporate ownership structure. That’s really unusual. A typical non-profit organization is “owned” by its donors [...]
Posted in Fiduciary responsibility, Nonprofit and Endowment Management, Socially Responsible Investing | Tagged Cato Institute, corporate governance, Fiduciary responsibility, non-profit governance, Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies |
