Tuesday, February 23, 2016

2 Foundations Choose Higher Payouts & Invite Philanthropy to Rethink | Nonprofit Quarterly

2 Foundations Choose Higher Payouts & Invite Philanthropy to Rethink | Nonprofit Quarterly: "NPQ has often advocated for foundations to consider higher payout rates, taking up the issue in some detail in Buzz Schmidt’s classic, “‘Deliberate Deployment’ or Perpetuity: Questions to Inform Timing Strategies for Philanthropy.” Since then, we have seen a number of foundations moving to deploy more of their assets in the here and now—if not by “spending down” more quickly, then by investing more of their full assets in mission-related activity. But Schmidt also suggests that foundations consider a set of questions in a more “deliberate deployment” strategy, and that is what we see in this story."



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