Point/Counterpoint: Limited life foundations ensure greater social impact
Resolved: Founders and directors will help their foundations have greater impact if they commit their entire endowments during a limited period of time, spending down
Resolved: Founders and directors will help their foundations have greater impact if they commit their entire endowments during a limited period of time, spending down
This article is the eighth in a series on Indigenous Communities and Philanthropy. SUMMARY: The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada strives to promote
This article is the ninth in a series on Indigenous Communities and Philanthropy. SUMMARY: The following is an edited version, approved by the author, of a
Uncharitable: How Restraints On Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta Medford, Mass: Tufts University Press isbn: 978-1-58465-723-1 in recent years, there has been increasing
The economic swells of the last 18 months stress-tested the system of charitable endowments. Headlines announced spectacular losses to these long-term funds. My favourite was
“Endowments” are held by many Canadian charities. However, the source of these endowed funds and the nature of the legal conditions applicable to these endowments vary
This article has been developed and updated by the author (as of July 2003), from a presentation to the 3rd Annual Estates and Trusts Forum
Viewpoint and Counterpoint provide a forum for informed debate of issues of wide interest to the philanthropic sector. The opinions expressed are those of the