Sentence examples for on its endowment from inspiring English sources

"For instance, if a school's operations are in the red, its draw on its endowment may lift it above the line, obscuring the reality that the school is not running optimally".

The Met is seeking to cut its labor costs to deal with a number of serious challenges: box-office revenues have been declining; costs have been rising; and although the company has bridged that gap with record fund-raising, it has also drawn heavily on its endowment.

Yet it had only earned 3percentt on its endowment in the same period.

He acknowledged that Harvard could sell the few carbon stocks it owns directly without "a major impact" on its endowment performance; such stocks account for only $30 million of the fund's $1 billion in direct United States stock holdings, the students estimate.

Yale relies heavily on its endowment for operations.

Britain's affluence, he wrote, depended on its endowment of coal, which the country was rapidly depleting.

Over the next few years, RBF changed management of its endowment, taking on new external fund managers, who were willing to look beyond conventional investments.

The average university spent 4.8percentt of its endowment on its operations last year, according to the 2005 Commonfund Benchmark Study, an annual look at education endowments.

The church was forced to draw on the principal of its endowment, and then the market crashed.

Yet in nearly every year since 2000, the museum has drawn down on the principal of its endowment to pay for operations, a practice frowned upon as risky in the museum world.

The J. Paul Getty Trust can spend up to 0.75% of its endowment on gifts and grants; by 1990 the Getty Grant Program (then based in Santa Monica) had made 530 grants totaling $20 million to "art historians, conservators and art museums in 18 countries".