Ford Foundation: A Primer for Endowment Grantmakers (PDF)
http://www.fordfound.org/pdfs/impact/primer_for_grantmakers.pdf
The Endowment Trend: Securing the Future Now
From the Magazine, Museum News comes this article analyzing endowment trends.
http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/MN_JA99_Endowment_Trend.cfm
For Additional Resources, please see the Endowments section of the Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington website:
a nonprofit group asks:
"We would like to conduct a social impact study of our members that illustrate the programmatic impact nonprofits have on the community. We have been able to find reports for the economic impact of nonprofits, but not a compilation of their social impact, their program benchmarks, as it were. Do you know of any reports or organizations that are doing this kind of work that we could link with or use their survey work?"
Indeed, we have extensive information here:
Social Impact of Nonprofits
Philanthropy and Social Impact
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