{"id":25935,"date":"2020-07-10T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:43:49","slug":"considering-the-choice-to-spend-down-is-good-for-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2020\/07\/10\/considering-the-choice-to-spend-down-is-good-for-philanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering the Choice to Spend Down is Good for Philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>National Center for Family Philanthropy, April 19, 2016.<\/strong>  For much of the 20th century, the vast majority of US foundations operated under the idea that they would be in business forever.   But as a new generation of family philanthropists take over \u2014 and families contemplate just how long forever actually lasts and reflect on the present needs in their communities \u2014 a growing number are deciding that they would rather grant their assets during a set period of time than manage their endowments in perpetuity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncfp.org\/2016\/04\/19\/why-the-choice-to-spend-down-is-good-for-philanthropy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Center for Family Philanthropy, April 19, 2016. For much of the 20th century, the vast majority of US foundations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giving-while-living"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123118,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions\/123118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}