He started a fund-raising campaign that supported the growth while increasing its endowment.

But the company's hopes to increase its endowment have fallen short.

And there is hope a new director could increase the museum's $130,000 endowment.

During the past fifteen years, the university's supporters helped increase the school's endowment by 284 percent.

"We really need to increase our endowment," she said.

He had also successfully led a fund-raising campaign that increased the foundation's endowment by over $1 million.

Worst of all, the orchestra made little effort to increase its endowment, which now stands at $18 million.

It is projected that the university's financial structure will improve by 2014, to increase its endowment to $100 million or more.

About $5 million will go toward the expansion and the rest to increase the center's $1.6 million endowment.

The emphasis of the gift was to increase the school's endowment.