NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Community foundations—with their deep local ties, significant unrestricted assets, and community benefit missions—are ideally positioned to play a leading role in solving our communities’ most profound and difficult challenges. Yet many are stuck in a pattern of disbursing only a small percentage of their assets in grants and investing the rest in traditional portfolios that don’t advance (and may even undermine) their mission.