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Endowment: "A fund established to provide income for the maintenance of a nonprofit organization. Endowment funds generally are established by donor-restricted gifts and are limited in use to the purpose originally dictated by the donor. The principal of a permanent endowment must be maintained permanently." (http://nonprofit.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_efund.htm)

Principal: the amount of money originally invested.

Assets: Current cash and other items that can be readily converted into cash, usually within one year.

(AP Stylebook and Libel Manual, 1998. Ed. Norm Goldstien)

Fiscal Year: Typically October 1-September 30. We are current in the 2005-2006 fiscal year, and it would be abbreviated as “FY05-06” or “FY06”.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year)

Positive Screens: "We do a stakeholder analysis based on information that's ascertainable, without the company's help, about employees, consumers, suppliers, and the natural environment. For example, we can find out if a company gives 1.5% of pretax profits to charity for three years in a row. We have roughly 140 questions."--Stolen from ProQuest and BusinessWeek!!

In-Kind Contribution: A non-cash, non-property donation, usually of goods or services.

To Add

• Figure out definitions from the FY04 UWCEF Prospectus (i.e. real-time assets, liquid assets, etc)