Outlook: Why Not Endowment?
CURRENTS Article The reticence of most grant-making foundations to fund charitable endowments is puzzling. This article explores four common objections that foundations make with regard to supporting endowments and four arguments that respond to those objections.

Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates, 2011 Edition
Foundation Center
Report Part of the annual Foundations Today Series on foundation growth and trends in foundation giving, this report provides a first look at 2010 giving and directions for 2011 and 2012, together with aggregated actual 2009 giving and asset figures for more than 76,000 grantmaking U.S. foundations.

Little by Little
CURRENTS Article A pie chart shows projected giving for 2012 based on the responses of 1,065 community, independent, and corporate foundations to the Foundation Center's annual Foundation Giving Forecast Survey.

Modest Growth in Foundation Giving Expected
Article Recently released survey findings reveal that giving by grant-making foundations in the United States held steady in 2010. Modest growth is expected for 2011.

Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates, 2010 Edition
Foundation Center
Report Data in this April 2010 report indicates that U.S. grantmaking foundations cut their giving by an estimated 8.4 percent in 2009 - the steepest decline since the Foundation Center began tracking the data in 1975. The report provides a first look at 2009 giving and directions for 2010 and 2011, as well as aggregated actual 2008 giving and asset figures for more than 75,000 U.S. grantmaking foundations. Snapshots for independent, corporate, and community foundations are included.

Odds and Ends: The Girl Effect
CURRENTS Article In a question-and-answer interview, Maria Eitel, president of the Nike Foundation, discusses the foundation's support of education for girls in the developing world.