Duke Sanford School of Public Policy

Professor Joel L. Fleishman's second annual report on spend-down at the AVI CHAI Foundation examines the changes brought about by the board's determination to begin governing the institution less from the perspective of individual grants and more with an eye to the sustainability of its overall fields of interests, the likelihood of future funding for these fields, the durability of their leading organizations, and the odds that future philanthropists would see opportunity in, and derive inspiration from, the work that AVI CHAI had set in motion.

Fleishman, Joel L., 2011. "Gearing Up to Spend Down: A Foundation in the Midst of Paradigm Shifts: Year Two Report on the Concluding Years of the AVI CHAI Foundation." Durham, NC: Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University.

The report is also available on the website of the AVI CHAI Foundation.

Professor Fleishman's first annual report on spend-down at AVI CHAI is available at http://cspcs.sanford.duke.edu/content/first-annual-report-avi-chai-foundation-progress-its-decision-spend-down-joel-l-fleishman.

As part of the Center's project on spend-down, philanthropy consultant and author Tony Proscio has written an account of the Atlantic Philanthropies' progress in its decision to spend down. To learn more about Tony Proscio's report, click here.

For further information on the Center's spend-down project, click here.