Alexander Sandy Macnab
Alexander Sandy Macnab, FAHP, CFRE, began the consulting company bearing his name in 1994 after 25 years as a development professional. An experienced radio and newspaper reporter, he is a skilled interviewer and interpreter, committed to helping others build their dreams.
Before starting his own firm, Mr. Macnab served St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, IL, for 12 years as Director of Development and Assistant Vice President. A Certified Fund Raising Executive and also a Fellow of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, he is a long-time member of the Chicago Council on Planned Giving who helped lead the organization as part of its steering committee.
He is a current member of the International Association of Fundraising Professionals Curriculum Development Committee and is one of 22 Master Teachers selected from highly-rated instructors throughout North America to inaugurate the AFP International Faculty Academy. He is the former ethics committee chair of the AFP Chicago Chapter.
With more than 30 years of direct fund raising experience, Mr. Macnab is the developer of nationally recognized annual giving, direct mail and planned giving programs. He has presented fund raising training seminars and provided general fund raising counsel, capital campaign, and planned and major gift support to clients throughout the nation.
Recent projects include counsel to establish a medical center foundation in Tennessee, a veteran’s legacy center in Wisconsin and helping plan two $5 million endowment campaigns for a Chicago-based national foundation, assisting several smaller efforts and conducting executive personnel searches. Major retained relationships in the fourth quarter of 2002 include work with The American Thoracic Society, New York, NY; Delnor-Community Health Care Foundation, Geneva, IL; The Edward (Hospital) Foundation, Naperville, IL and The Grains Foundation, Washington, DC.
For more than three decades, Mr. Macnab has provided ongoing, project and capital/endowment/major gift campaign counsel to associations, schools, hospitals and social services agencies and has worked successfully with scores of volunteers, executive leaders, administrators, development professionals and philanthropists, building a solid record of verifiable achievement.
