Henry Young, President
Recognized throughout the industry as a results-driven professional with experience in all aspects of fundraising, sales management, and particular expertise in designing effective organizational and management structures for institutions with substantial capital and endowment needs, Mr. Young has worked closely with a number of the America’s leading institutions. In 1992, Mr. Young set the standard for the American regional theatre movement by raising the largest endowment/capital effort of any freestanding theater in the country for The Guthrie Theatre.
He gained the attention of the Wall Street Journal for orchestrating within 16 days the Brooklyn Academy of Music Flood Emergency Campaign with Helen Hayes as its chair.
Mr. Young has traveled extensively providing fundraising and management counsel to chief executives and trustees throughout North America and more recently to Belarus. He has provided organizations with strategies for successful board development and large individual gift solicitations and has designed programs which have helped these organizations raise in excess of $200 million.
Prior to his decision to consult full time, Mr. Young served in the following capacities:
- Executive Director, Dance Aspen
- Director of Development, The Breck School
- Campaign Director, The Guthrie Theatre
- Executive Director, NY City Center Joffrey Ballet
- Director of Development, Brooklyn Academy of Music
- General Manager, Cincinnati Ballet Company
- Development Manager, New York University’s School of the Arts
Account Executive
Angélique Weger joined the firm in August 2007 following a ten-year career with such institutions as The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Fabric Workshop + Museum, The Borowsky Gallery (Philadelphia) and the University Museum & Kipp Gallery (Indiana, Pa.). We are particularly happy to be bringing a visual arts sensitivity to our staff.
Ms. Weger managed the development office functions for Tai Sophia Institute during their 2007 annual fund effort and recently acted as account executive during the development audit of CASA, corporate sponsorship campaign for the Creativity World Forum 2010, the PDW analysis of The Spring of Tampa Bay’s donor database, and the Steamship Historical Society of America’s PDW analysis and campaign feasibility study.
Ms. Weger studied in The University of the Arts’ graduate-level Museum Communication program and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Weger was responsible for the new look of our company web site and is a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake and the Maryland Film Festival.
Administrative Assistants
Sarah Grayce Barragán has worked with YoungAssociates since 2003 as an assistant researcher and administrative assistant in a variety of projects, including the feasibility assessment of seven Oklahoma City arts agencies funded by the Kirkpatrick Foundation, the national corporate sponsorship activities for the Creativity World Forum 2010 and the recently completed feasibility study for the Steamship Historical Society of America.
Ms. Barragán holds a Master’s Degree in Dance from the University of California and a Bachelor’s Degree in Ballet Performance from Indiana University.
