The capital is never spent. What it earns funds girls every year.
What it is
The gift is kept. The return is what is spent.
An endowment: the capital is kept and invested, and what it earns is spent.
Kept
Your gift, invested.
A single gift or a series, in your lifetime or through your will, joins the Foundation’s endowment. The Board invests it under its investment strategy, and it is never spent. The strategy document is not yet published; the four published rules are on the About page.
Spent
The return, every year.
What the fund earns is released to the programmes, year after year. Because the capital is not touched, the gift does not have a final year.
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gift, paying out every year for as long as the Foundation exists.
The capital is never spent. What it earns funds girls every year.
Why it matters here
Girls' education is a long problem. This is long money.
Most funding arrives a year at a time. An endowment is the part that never has to be raised again.
It is what lets the Board commit to a girl’s whole schooling rather than her next term.
It is predictable
Programme teams can plan against it, because it arrives whether or not a campaign succeeds.
It is patient
It funds the work that only pays off over years, which is most of the work that matters.
It is named as you choose
Whether it carries your name, or no name at all, is your decision. Nothing is published without asking you first.
Each endowment gift is agreed in writing, including how its capital is kept. The conversation covers what you want the money to do, and how you want it recognised.
An endowment gift always begins with a conversation.
