International Journal of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) ISSN: 0975-5586 (Online); 0975-5926 (Print) http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/ijmit.html Article: An AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) Based Investment Strategy for Charitable Organizations of Goodgrant Foundation Authors Xue-ying Liu, Jian-sheng Yang, Xiao-yan Fei and Ze-jun Tao, Shanghai University, China Abstract This paper provides the optimal investment strategy for the Goodgrant Foundation. To determine the schools to be invested, firstly we find the factors about improving students’ educational performance, including urgency of student’s needs, school’s demonstrate potential for effective use of private funding, the reputation of school, and return on investment etc; secondly, we utilize AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) to determine the weight of every factor and rank the schools in the list of candidate schools according to the composite index of every school calculated fr...