Episode 9: Understanding Endowments, With Mary Peloquin-Dodd

On this episode, we’re joined by Mary Peloquin-Dodd, NC State’s associate vice chancellor for finance and university treasurer, to discuss the NC State endowment and its importance. Thanks in large part to Peloquin-Dodd’s careful management, and to the incredible generosity of donors to our recent Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign, this fund has more than tripled in the last decade to now provide the university with $1.95 billion in long-term financial support. “Endowment” and “fund” are somewhat misleading terms, though, as NC State is actually the steward of more than 3,000 individual endowments, each with its own terms and conditions. Peloquin-Dodd and her team, working in concert with the deans of each NC State college and their respective teams, help to ensure that each endowment reaches its full potential — financially and in regards to how each endowment’s creator(s) envisioned it. Transcript available here.