Barbara NewhouseSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

She succeeded in pulling the Nebraska Division out of a million-dollar deficit within 18 months instituted major gifts and planned giving programs and reached out to non-traditional partners (such as Nebraska beef producers) to develop partnerships for major fundraising events.

She later became Vice President of Development for the American Cancer Society’s San Gabriel Valley area (Pasadena and outer Los Angeles area) supervising a revenue budget of $3.5 million.Barb returned home in 1992 to accept a position as Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Big Sioux Chapter based in the tri-state Sioux City metro area.

During the next eight years the chapter’s operating budget grew more than tenfold through implementation of a comprehensive annual fundraising plan. At the center of this plan was the annual Wine and Roses Festival; initiated in 1994 it grew into one of Siouxland’s largest and most prestigious special events grossing over $200000 in a market area of 100000 people.

She secured grant funding from the national Alzheimer’s Association and matched it locally to develop new and innovative programming for local families living with Alzheimer’s and dementia—including adult day care music and art therapy care consultation and the development of a community organizing and service delivery model for individuals with dementia living alone.