KU Endowment's offices on West Campus in Lawrence are pictured April 16, 2021. In a better-to-laugh-than-cry sort of way, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod often jokes during his updates ...

Cambridge University Endowment Fund, Cambridge, England, will invest £200 million ($268 million), and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, New York, will invest up to $500 million benchmarked ...

Duke receives roughly 31% of its overall funding from the federal government. With that funding in precarity due to Trump administration policies, the University has resorted to layoffs, voluntary ...

Endowment funds are important financial resources that provide many nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions long-term financial stability and support for a variety of programs and ...

Can Harvard afford to tap its endowment to make up for lost federal funding? It’s complicated. The standoff between Trump and Harvard comes as the White House is seeking to flex control over higher ...

U.S. colleges and universities have begun to report their endowment returns for the last fiscal year, and the picture isn't pretty. The average return of those that have reported so far, according to ...

As of June 30, 2024, the University’s endowment — a collection of invested funds from donors dating back to 1769 — sits at $7.2 billion. Although most of these funds are invested in a portfolio of ...

Gift: A gift is a voluntary, irrevocable, gratuitous transfer to, and acceptance by, University of Dayton of cash or cash equivalent, securities, property of value, or execution of an instrument that ...

Endowments have been around for a long time. Many universities have had them for decades, and they’re major revenue generators. Have you ever heard of someone overdrawing an endowment fund? Probably ...

A well-managed endowment fund is a cornerstone of financial stability and long-term success for any institution of higher education. At Pratt, the endowment plays a vital role in advancing our mission ...

The spending policy determines how much of the total return will be allocated and identified as spendable dollars and how much will be reinvested in the endowment investment pool. Total return is the ...

In this new online column, American Library Association (ALA) Senior Endowment Trustee Brett Bonfield will update members about the ALA Endowment Fund, its role in ALA finances, and additional topics ...