As a nation, we are about to embark upon an interesting time in our history -- especially in the ongoing movement for social change and social justice.  On the one hand, we celebrate the extraordinary election of Barack Obama as our nation’s first African-American president.  At the same time, however, we have the sobering reality that our nation is confronted with the most serious economic crisis we have seen in the last half-century. 

I don’t need to tell you that this has been a difficult year for many nonprofits and their families. Even The Endowment’s corpus was not immune from stock market fluctuations, and right now we’re looking and both short- and long-term options to help our grantees and other nonprofits weather this storm.