Insights Don’t Come From Confidential Donor Studies
The confidential feasibility study model is a barrier to the process, not a catalyst, and a disservice to clients. Here’s why …
Best of the Web: Software Replacement
This post will not discuss specific vendors or products. No doubt you already know what I am talking about simply because you are hearing from your current vendor. Rather, I want to focus on whether you need to change at all.
Mentorship and the Advancement of Health Care with Philip Mazzara
Philip Mazzara, President and CEO of Providence Health Foundation joins Alexander Haas President and CEO, David King to share steps along his career path from advancement to fundraising and how mentorship helped shape that journey.
Endowing the Arts
Do you know how to talk about endowments?
Here are a few facts to help you brush up your endowment IQ.
Team Member Spotlight: Judy Anderson
Meet Judy Anderson, Project Director for Alexander Haas! In this month’s Team Member Spotlight, Judy shares what she loves about working with museums and arts organizations, current industry trends and what brought her to Alexander Haas.
5 Ways Small Nonprofits Can Improve Financial Health
Nonprofits face many of the same challenges as their commercial counterparts. They are under-capitalized, lack reserves to withstand a crisis or act on a special opportunity, and struggle to stay afloat from one pay period to the next.
So, how can small charities overcome these obstacles and improve their financial health?
A Conversation about Community Engagement Curators
An increasing number of museums and cultural centers are adding community engagement curators (CECs) to their staffs to build two-way conversations about how to make our work more relevant to our neighbors and to give them a voice in what we do within and outside the museum walls.
How To Choose The Best Fundraising Counsel For Your Nonprofit?
Seven things organizations should keep top of mind when considering hiring fundraising counsel but often neglect to do.
LSU’s Daniel Bozard – Higher Ed Metrics, Accountability & Culture Building
On this episode of Futures in Fundraising, Daniel Bozard, LSU Foundation Vice President of Development joins Alexander Haas President and CEO, David King to talk metrics, accountability and culture building.
FAKE NEWS ON ENDOWMENTS!
O.K., so it’s not really fake news. But most folks keeping up on current events over the last year would think colleges are hoarding millions and even billions of dollars that could be used to help students and their families offset the increasing cost to attend. Although that is not the case…
