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.

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.

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.