They will continue to provide "a very significant share of the operating support of those institutions" for the foreseeable future, he said.
Smaller donations could mean less support for the fund's 39 member colleges, which typically receive an average of $1 million each in operating support annually.
In interviews, foundation officials partly blamed the 2008 recession and difficulties in getting donors to provide operating support rather than restricted grants for specific programs for the deficits.
Production costs and operating support for nonprofit producers would come from the foundation; advertising and promotion support would come from marketing.
For this fiscal year, NJPAC asked for $2 million in operating support -- about 9percentt of its projected operating budget -- and got $1.5 million, even as the arts council's grant panel lauded NJPAC's programming as "high quality, diverse and challenging".
"Policy makers need to decide what kind of passenger rail system America needs, how much the system requires in capital and operating support and how the government will pay for the system".
We know all too well that it requires years on a waiting list to get into New York City public housing, which had a great reputation for 50 years before the federal government started cutting capital and operating support.
It can be used for whatever purpose the nonprofit's leaders deem most important, including operating support for programs that have proven their worth and "overhead" such as managerial talent and development that philanthropic and government funding typically do not cover.
These grant makers have successfully shown that providing nonprofits with operating support "does not mean forking over tens of thousands of dollars and relinquishing expectations for results," the Grantmakers' report said.
A family made a $1,500,000 pledge to establish a junior professorship in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and provide operating support to the Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center.
It is necessary to consider the design of the system from the point of view of many design disciplines to optimise acquisition and operating support costs, weight, maintainability and availability of the system.
