Shifting the Spend-Down into High Gear: A Foundation Begins Implementing its Strategy: Year Three Report on the Concluding Years of the AVI CHAI Foundation

This report is the third in what is intended to be an annual series chronicling the way in which AVI CHAI plans and carries out its final years of philanthropy. This entry covers developments from October 2010 through July 2011. Earlier reports in the series are available at both the AVI CHAI website and at that of Duke University's Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (cspcs.sanford.duke.edu). The Board of AVI CHAI has commissioned these reports both as a way of helping its members reflect on their own progress and challenges, and in the hope that the description of these events, as they unfold, may be helpful to other foundations as they decide whether to pursue their missions in a fixed period of time and, if so, how to do so responsibly and effectively.

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Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy