Sentence examples for private endowment from inspiring English sources

The U.C. paid the $13,365 monthly rent out of a private endowment, officials said.

The money spent on the house came from a private endowment.

The Charity Hospital of Louisiana, in New Orleans, founded by private endowment in 1736 and later adopted by the state, is one of the country's oldest public hospitals.

Freedberg recognizes as well that the future will depend on ambitious fund-raising, a daunting task in a country where state funding is still more the norm for higher education than American-style private endowment.

Since 1964 the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, working with the White House curator, has had full responsibility for redecorations of the State Floor, which are paid for by a private endowment.

Her father retired as the director of corporate planning at the Old Kent Financial Corporation in Grand Rapids and is now the chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, a private endowment in Grand Rapids.

There are serious problems with private endowments as well.

More fundamentally, a system of private endowments creates perverse incentives.

Once the industry was clubby and opaque, the preserve of rich families and private endowments.

Perhaps this is another area in which American universities, with their long histories of private endowments, will provide the model.

They have private endowments and funding models that are actually wealthier now than they were five years ago".