Article menu>>Matt BeemPresident and COOHartsook Companies, Inc.Focus on what you can do to make a differenceSaturday, December 22, 2012Independence, MO – Something I heard last Sunday on the heels of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings has stayed with me all week.In the wake of such unspeakable tragedy, it’s easy to ask what’s wrong with…
Our profession has lost one of the leaders of our generation,” said Robert Hartsook, chairman of Hartsook Companies in Kansas City, Mo. He called Alford “a great spirit of professional fundraising who set his mark not only through his personal example, but his philanthropy. In business, he was a great competitor and a good person,”…
One of the first acts by Gene Tempel, Founding Dean of the new School of Philanthropy at Indiana University was the appointment of Brittany Miller, a doctoral graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies as the first Hartsook Fellow. Brittany is from Livonia, MI and has served as Dean Tempel’s graduate assistant in the…
Article menu>>Matt BeemPresident and COOHartsook Companies, Inc.Those who give much receive muchSaturday, November 24, 2012Independence, MO – By the time you read these words, Thanksgiving will have come and gone.If your house is anything like mine, all that remains from the annual feast are the turkey leftovers in the refrigerator and the bulging trash bags…
Article menu>> Matt Beem President and COO Hartsook Companies, Inc. Your Giving, Large or Small, Greatly Helps Saturday, October 27, 2012 Independence, MO – I taught the first session of an eight-week course on major and planned giving last week . I’ve always enjoyed the vigorous discussion of the college classroom. Last week’s conversation got…
Article menu>>Matt BeemPresident and COOHartsook Companies, Inc.Giving Helps the ScoutsSaturday, August 25, 2012PHOENIX, AZ – The Hartsook Institutes for Fundraising honored one of the best fundraisers of the modern era here Thursday.Bob Mazzuca, who retired Friday as chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, received the Hartsook Institutes Growing Philanthropy Award for Transformational Fundraising…
The opportunity to bring the philanthropic, nonprofit and fundraising fields together again has a much-desired new leader—one who was with us before. It is with great enthusiasm that I offer heartfelt congratulations to IU President Michael McRobbie (a fellow Australian) and my good friend Chancellor Charles Bantz who selected Gene Tempel to provide essential leadership,…
It is second nature to Hartsook clients and followers: the donor’s challenges are our challenges. I met Martin Eby more than 30 years ago. He was a very successful contractor in Wichita, succeeding his father in the company that exists today. I would see Martin periodically as we were building the Hartsook Companies in Wichita. …
One of my new friends is Rozenne Prather, Director of Communications for Truman Medical Center Foundation. Rozenne joined the Foundation after many years as CEO of Catholic Charities Foundation in Kansas City.She proudly presented me with their “Gratitude Report” to review. You know I love words and am always taken by a better way of…
Article menu>>Matt BeemPresident and COOHartsook Companies, Inc.Just a piece of plastic, but it changed our familySaturday, August 11, 2012Independence, MO – I never dreamt how much things would change after Joe got his driver’s license on July 17.For years, Kate and I spent evenings and weekends shuttling our tribe to Scouts, sports, music and church.…
