James R. Hackney, Jr. — Managing Partner

As Managing Partner of Alexander Haas, Jim serves cultural clients all over the United States. In the past few years, Jim has helped clients raise more than $700,000,000. Chosen as consultant to the American Association of Museums in Washington D.C. and the American Craft Council, Jim is known as a creative strategist for projects with national impact.

He is nationally known in the museum world. He directed the Centennial Campaign for the Dallas Museum of Art that resulted in over $400,000,000 in donations of art and increased endowments. In Columbus, Georgia he conducted a unique campaign that joined nine cultural organizations in a unified fundraising effort that raised over $110,000,000 in a community of less than 200,000 people. For the State of South Carolina, Jim directed the successful campaign to build the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in a joint public – private partnership. In Santa Fe, Jim has helped to restructure the way the Museum of New Mexico Foundation serves its four museums and led them through a campaign that paid for the exhibitions of the New Mexico History Museum and raised over $25,000,000 on a campaign goal of $17,000,000.

As a speaker, trainer and presenter, Jim is in high demand. The American Association of Museums (AAM), National Park Service, Association of Fund Raising Professionals (AFP), Art Museum Development Association (AMDA), Dance USA, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern Museum Conferences, Florida Association of Museums, The Giving Institute and the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) have all had him present. He conducted a national webinar for the AAM for Museum Directors and staff on giving in a down economy in 2009.

He graduated cum laude from Wofford College with a bachelor’s degree in humanities and earned a M.A.R. from Yale University Divinity School. He is currently on the Executive Committee of the Development and Membership Committee of the American Association of Museums and is past president of the Art Museum Development Association. He also serves as a Trustee of the American Craft Council. A founding board member of the Arts Leadership League of Georgia, Jim is an advisor to United States Artists.

Prior to joining Alexander Haas in 1995, he worked at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, was Alumni and Annual Fund Director and then Director of Development for Wofford College and was the Director of Development and Marketing for the Mint Museum of Art where he also served as Interim Director for 18 months. Jim obtained his CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) in 1996.

Jim began his fundraising career in 1978 as a telephone associate for the Campaign for Yale. A native of Lexington, North Carolina, Jim is an avid collector of studio craft.