Alexander Haas in the News
The Alexander Haas Partners are noted experts in the nonprofit field and are often called up by the national and local Georgia press when these publications are researching and writing on issues that impact the nonprofit field. Here are recent examples of our expert Partners in the news.
College Fundraising: Is There a "New Normal"?
By David Bass
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
November/December 2009 | Number 6, Volume 17
David King, president and CEO of Alexander Haas, which provides fundraising counsel to colleges, universities and other nonprofits, suggested that donors may have more fundamental doubts about endowment: “One thing we’re hearing in conversations with donors is real questioning about endowment policies and endowment in general. I think a strong case was made over the past 10 or 15 years that endowment was a source of stability for institutions—that it provided a stable source of income that we could count on even if fundraising and admissions were up and down. Well, that hypothesis has now been proven incorrect. We are seeing donors who say, ‘You had an endowment, you lost half of it. I’m not sure I want to put my money in there now.’ ”
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For $53 Million, Houston Ballerinas Won’t Dance Around Buckets
By Katarzyna Klimasinska
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg)
The company has started raising an additional $45 million for the endowment, said Jim Hackney, managing partner at Alexander Haas, an Atlanta-based fundraising consultancy hired by the ballet.
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Amid the gloomy economy, expressions of hope
By Gustav Spohn
Director of Communications and Publications
Jerry Henry ’80 M.Div., chair of the YDS Alumni Board’s Development Committee, began the Convocation and Reunions breakfast conversation on the economy by asking an interesting question with an even more interesting answer.
Question: Why don’t American Christians give away more money?
Answer: They are not asked!
That was the dramatic opening of a presentation Henry delivered to a small but engaged audience of alumni in Niebuhr Hall who had gathered Oct. 13 to take up the topic “The Impact of the Economy on Churches, Schools, Social Service Organizations, Families, and Selves.”
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