December 2, 2009 - With the recession squeezing donors and charities alike, ensuring that your giving really makes a difference is more important than ever, Barron's reports. And to inspire others to do just that, the business publication has published a year-end list of the twenty-five "most effective" givers.
August 3, 2009, Barron's — BACK IN THE GLORY DAYS, WHEN Harvard University was firmly perched in the pantheon of top-performing endowment funds, its Harvard Management Co. routinely came in for criticism for giving its managers outsized compensation packages, as well as for following investment strategies that seemed more suitable to a hard-charging Wall Street firm than to a tax-exempt charity.
