Institutionally Related Foundations

Focused on governance issues facing institutionally related foundations and their boards, the Forum creates opportunities for board leaders and executive teams to share insights, ask important questions, and learn how to create solutions-based strategies founded on best practices.

July 21, 2021 - Fossil fuel divestment is a popular topic across University campuses – often with students and faculty advocating for divestment and University and Affiliated Foundation...

Join AGB Senior Consultant Lynnette Heard for a discussion on building a highly effective foundation board to ensure the right minds are focused on the challenges ahead in the most constructive way. Composition, culture, and the right strategy are critical …

When the technology and e-commerce behemoth Amazon solicited bids in 2017 to build its second headquarters, it set off a scramble by hundreds of cities and states to land a multibillion-dollar project that would create tens of thousands of jobs for …

June 08, 2021 - AI enhancements can provide timely and targeted solicitation experiences that lead to higher rates of engagement and giving. Learn the who, what and why for annual giving AI.

May 25, 2021 - While unprecedented in many ways, the market’s behavior during and after the onset of COVID-19 reinforced several lessons for endowments as to how to manage through —and hopefully benefit from— periods of market crisis.

May 20, 2021 - The NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments provides the most comprehensive analysis of endowment investment returns, asset allocations, and governance policies and practices...

Community colleges, commonly referred to as junior colleges until the 1970s, continue to be an important part of our educational system in the United States. It is estimated that about 41 percent of all undergraduates are enrolled in community colleges …

April 21, 2021 - Top-of-mind priorities for foundation leaders in 2021 include the return to foundation offices; talent management and diversity, equity and inclusion; the foundation’s sustainability; tensions over the use of funds raised and managed by the foundation; and the institution-foundation partnership.

In 2015, the number of 30 year old’s surpassed the number of 50 year old’s, a harbinger to the generational shift in fundraising communications preferences...