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		<title>Legislative leader advocates $2 billion loan from NM endowment to deal with budget problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Massey</dc:creator>
		
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NM lawmaker offers budget fix using endowment fund

SANTA FE, N.M. — A Democratic legislative leader wants to tap into a nearly $9 billion state endowment fund to help solve New Mexico&#8217;s budget problems.
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez said Wednesday he&#8217;ll propose taking $2 billion from the Land Grant Permanent Fund to pay for critical government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill heading to Obama would boost federal arts, cultural funding to highest level in 16 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Arts agencies to get highest funding in 16 years
WASHINGTON — The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend.
Under the Interior Appropriations Bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial report says University of South Dakota Foundation is strong, despite economic tumult</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VERMILLION, S.D. — Officials say despite tough economic times, the University of South Dakota Foundation has remained strong.

According to a report issued Tuesday, the foundation reported gift income of $12 million and assets of $154 million for the year ending June 30. The endowment totaled $115 million, despite a nearly 13 percent investment loss for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College tuition up again; students suffer from state budget cuts, endowment declines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Average tuition prices rose sharply again this fall as colleges passed much of the burden of their own financial problems on to recession-battered students and parents.

Average tuition at four-year public colleges rose 6.5 percent, or $429, to $7,020 this fall, according to the College Board&#8217;s annual &#8220;Trends in College Pricing&#8221; report, released Tuesday. At private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard says it lost $1.8 billion in cash investments, on top of endowment loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University said Friday it lost $1.8 billion in operating cash in the last fiscal year as a result of investing it alongside the university&#8217;s endowment.

The loss was revealed in Harvard&#8217;s fiscal 2009 operating report.
The university said in the report that it has routinely pooled cash held in various schools and departments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google CEO, wife create $25M endowment at Princeton for technology development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRENTON, N.J. — Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife have given $25 million to start an endowment fund at Princeton University.

The Ivy League school said Tuesday that the money will support the invention and development of technology in natural sciences and engineering.
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund will be awarded through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congregations, religious schools fall victim to recession; leaders say more losses ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Zoll</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Organized religion was already in trouble before the fall of 2008. Denominations were stagnating or shrinking, and congregations across faith groups were fretting about their finances.

The Great Recession made things worse.
It&#8217;s further drained the financial resources of many congregations, seminaries and religious day schools. Some congregations have disappeared and schools have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Stanford University portfolio shrinks 26 percent, fund value falls $5.9 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PALO ALTO, Calif. — A new report from Stanford&#8217;s money managers says the value of the university&#8217;s investment portfolio plunged nearly $6 billion over the last fiscal year, a drop university officials called unprecedented.

The Stanford Management Company reported the university&#8217;s major investment pool, which includes its endowment, fell from $20.4 billion at the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With an eye to the future, Saudi Arabia launches &#8216;world class&#8217; research university</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIRO — Saudi Arabia has dug into its oil-fueled coffers to set up a new research university, a multibillion dollar coed venture built on the promise of scientific freedom in a region where a conservative interpretation of Islam has often been blamed for stifling innovation.

The King Abdullah Science and Technology University — complete with state-of-the-art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown University reports steep drop in value of endowment; down 27 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University is reporting a steep drop in its endowment.

The Ivy League school says the value of its endowment fell nearly 27 percent to $2.04 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30.
The university says the investment return for its endowment declined 23.1 percent during the same period.
Brown has made more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yale reports 30 pct drop in endowment from last year, spending cuts planned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University says its endowment has fallen 30.4 percent from last year, and the school is planning more budget cuts, but no layoffs.

In a letter to faculty and staff Thursday, Yale President Richard C. Levin and Provost Peter Salovey said that as of June, the endowment was $16 billion. The school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amid recession, Harvard University&#8217;s endowment falls to $26 billion, down more than 27 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — The total value of Harvard&#8217;s endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution&#8217;s portfolio was battered by the worldwide recession, the university&#8217;s management company said.

The endowment stood at $26 billion on June 30, after distributions and donations, the university said Thursday. It stood at $36.9 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford University lays off more than 400 employees as value of endowment plummets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PALO ALTO, Calif. — Stanford University has laid off 412 employees over the past eight months and plans an additional 60 layoffs later this year to offset a steep drop in the value of its endowment.

Stanford officials said Tuesday the layoffs have been spread throughout its graduate schools, academic departments and administrative units.
The university says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firm overseeing Harvard endowment _ battered by recession _ names 2 senior managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Two senior investment managers have been hired by the company overseeing Harvard University&#8217;s endowment, which has absorbed a steep drop in value during the recession.

Harvard Management Co. said Wednesday that Emil Dabora, senior managing director at Caxton Associates in New York, will join HMC as an equity portfolio manager.
Michele Toscani, managing director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriners to keep serving 22 cities, but may downgrade some hospitals; will accept insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Roberts</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO — The Shriners will continue treating children in all 22 cities where they operate hospitals, but some of the facilities may be downgraded to outpatient surgical centers and the sale or lease of real estate will be explored, the nonprofit&#8217;s new CEO said Thursday.

&#8220;We&#8217;ve not changed who we are. We will always take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shrinking endowment forces Shriners fraternal group to consider closing 6 childrens hospitals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Roberts</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO — For generations, children with clubbed feet, severe burns and other debilitating injuries have been treated for free at Shriners hospitals. That care could be in jeopardy.

As the charity&#8217;s endowment shrivels, the fraternal group known for wearing red fezzes and driving miniature cars in parades faces a serious decision: whether to close six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Interview: Harvard president forced to deal with economic crisis, but with a softer style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Trujillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Drew Gilpin Faust started as Harvard&#8217;s president when the university&#8217;s prosperity seemed limitless. With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in student financial aid.

Billions of lost endowment dollars later, though, Faust faces a much different reality.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t have chocolate and vanilla [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antioch University OKs transfer of Ohio&#8217;s Antioch College to alumni group for $6 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hannah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DAYTON, Ohio — Antioch University agreed Tuesday to transfer the campus of financially strapped Antioch College to an alumni group that plans to turn it into an independent school.

But any reopening of Antioch College is at least two years away and hinges on a list of conditions.
The university temporarily closed the Yellow Springs college a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennedy Center expands consulting effort to help struggling arts groups survive the recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Zongker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced plans Tuesday to expand its crisis consulting for arts organizations that are struggling to survive the recession, an effort championed by first lady Michelle Obama and congressional leaders.

Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser will meet with arts leaders in all 50 states and Puerto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charitable foundations average 26 percent endowment drop in 2008, but continue to give</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Gordon Blankinship</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE — U.S. foundations saw their investments drop by an average of 26 percent in 2008 amid the economic downturn and stock market collapse, but that hasn&#8217;t slowed their charitable giving, a new survey has found.

Even the world&#8217;s largest charitable foundation, Seattle&#8217;s Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation, reported a 20 percent drop in its endowment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citing dropping endowment, Harvard to cut 275 jobs, or about 2 percent of work force</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University is cutting 275 staff jobs as fallout continues from the school&#8217;s dropping endowment.

The layoffs amount to less than 2 percent of Harvard&#8217;s 16,000 staff and faculty. The school also is reducing hours for 40 staffers. The cuts don&#8217;t apply to faculty.
The cuts were announced in an e-mail Tuesday to faculty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vintage news, earthshaking and obscure: Online archive of historical newspapers hits 1M pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Zongker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — &#8220;Flying Machine that will Work: Ohio Boys have Solved a Big Mechanical Problem,&#8221; reads a headline from the Palestine Daily Herald in Texas.

A banner from The San Francisco Call-Chronicle-Examiner screams: &#8220;Entire City of San Francisco in Danger of Being Annihilated.&#8221;
These century-old headlines and millions of others are now available through your home computer.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s richest foundation suffers from recession, but remains the biggest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Gordon Blankinship</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE — The Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation may be the world&#8217;s richest charitable foundation, but that hardly shields them from the economic downturn.

Between January 2008 and April 2009, the foundation saw its assets drop from $39 billion to $27.5 billion. The organization&#8217;s new chief executive says his mission includes figuring out a way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama nominates former GOP congressman to chair National Endowment for the Humanities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has nominated former Republican Rep. Jim Leach as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In a White House statement issued Wednesday, Obama says he is confident that with Leach as chairman, the endowment will continue its mission of &#8220;supporting the humanities and giving the American public access to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On anniversary of invasion, National D-Day Memorial risks financial ruin, possible closure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Lindsey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEDFORD, Va. — On the eve of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the foundation that runs the National D-Day Memorial is on the brink of financial ruin.

Donations are down in the poor economy. The primary base of support — World War II veterans — is dying off. And the privately funded memorial is struggling to [...]]]></description>
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