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Unspecified Endowment

There could be no clearer or more affirming signal of your commitment to this special place than with a gift of unspecified endowment, and Chautauqua has been blessed in having an extraordinary percentage of its philanthropy come in this form. Over the past ten years nearly three-fourths of endowment gifts received by Chautauqua benefited all that is the Chautauqua experience.

In order for Chautauqua to improve upon its current programmatic excellence and to ensure that it remain strong in uncertain and economically less robust times, we encourage your participation with an endowment gift to steward the future of Chautauqua.

The key attributes of unspecified and other forms of endowment are permanence, in the form of resources secured and stewarded for the perpetual benefit of Chautauqua; predictability, that is, the one financial resource in the annual budgeting exercise that can be known in advance of the conduct of the program; and either flexibility or certainty. Flexibility is gained to the degree that resources are not dedicated to a specific, narrowly defined application and, thus, they recognize and enable essential creativity. Certainty is attained in the case of intentionally specific applications of endowments (for facilities or scholarships, for example) to an area deemed a permanent commitment.

To learn more about how you can make an impact with an endowment gift, please call (716) 357-6244, e-mail kblozie@ciweb.org or write to:  

Karen Blozie
Director of Campaigns & Gift Planning
Chautauqua Foundation
PO Box 28, One Ames Avenue
Chautauqua, NY 14722
(716) 357-6244
kblozie@ciweb.org