How to order The Chronicle's special report on Endowments

This special report surveys the endowments and endowment management practices of major nonprofit institutions, including colleges, foundations, hospitals, museums, and others. Among the articles and tables:

• Alternative investments — including private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, oil and gas partnerships, timber, and real estate — are all the rage among endowments' investment managers.

• How nonprofit endowments have fared, and how they are invested: results from a Chronicle survey of 247 organizations.

• Over the last 20 years, fund raising at the Curtis Institute of Music has crescendoed, to impressive effect.

• Finances at Dickinson College looked gloomy a decade ago. A new president brightened that outlook.

• World Vision is one of America's largest charities, but for philosophical and religious reasons, it has only recently — and carefully — started an endowment.

• When endowments grow huge relative to operating budgets, institutions' purposes can become distorted, says Mark B. Schneider, a physics professor at Grinnell College, in an opinion article.

You may read the complete report online if you are a subscriber to The Chronicle of Higher Education or The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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