Endowment in a sentence as a noun

A top tier school like CMU is always going to be able to find new sources of endowment.

We are blessed with a $20 billion endowment that enables nearly anything we can envision.

How do you think a double-digit-billion endowment gets managed?

It means that he has donated enough money to the EFF's endowment[1] to fund a position at the EFF in perpetuity.

Since 1994, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation amassed an endowment of more than $31 billion in funds to fight the world's most difficult issues.

However before reading the previous comments, I had no idea how small CMU's endowment was compared to other top tier universities.

This makes sense--if you can swell your endowment by letting in athletes who are a-ok with taking easy classes and then using their one-track brains to '**** decks' at Goldman, why not?

A foundation with an endowment that runs a service which supplies a voice for bloggers for a computed value which is not to exceed 15% of the operating cost of the service.

The endowment of schools and colleges have, in this manner, not only corrupted the diligence of public teachers, but have rendered it almost impossible to have any good private ones.

Our university sung far and wide about how it just raised $400 million for its endowment in its most recent fundraising campaign, and yet, it couldn't afford to pay me more than a $25,000 salary in the IT department.

Specifically your sponsor within an LP such as an endowment or foundation reports to an Investment Committee which is typically extremely conservative.

Being a president of a college isn't exactly a low-impact position: in addition to being a public emissary to the college, they send the majority of their time on the road, raising money for their endowment.

I begin here by evaluating this standard in the context of three published replication attempts, involving investigations of the embodiment of morality, the endowment effect, and weather effects on life satisfaction, concluding the standard has unacceptable problems.

Presumably, managing the endowment for an organization with goals like "eradicate polio from the face of the earth in the name of Bill and Melinda Gates" is a job done with at least as much deadly seriousness as your average pension fund or university endowment, both of which are organizations that handle their money the same way.

Endowment definitions

noun

natural abilities or qualities

See also: gift talent

noun

the capital that provides income for an institution

noun

the act of endowing with a permanent source of income; "his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time"