Alumni | Haskins Giving Society

The Haskins Giving Society recognizes the most loyal and generous annual supporters of the NYU Stern School of Business. Named after the School’s founding dean, Charles Waldo Haskins, the Haskins Giving Society is an exclusive network of top business leaders who share a dedication to the School. Join to experience Stern, and the alumni network, like never before. For more information about the Haskins Giving Society, email giving@stern.nyu.edu or call 212-998-4161.

Haskins Investor $2,500–$4,999

• Invitation to the annual Haskins Giving Society Awards Dinner
• Insider tours of the Stern campus 
• Exclusive invitations to events for Haskins donors throughout the year

Haskins Benefactor $5,000–$9,999

• Priority access and seating at Signature Events, with special donor recognition
• Invitation to the annual Haskins Giving Society Awards Dinner
• Insider tours of the Stern campus 
• Exclusive invitations to events for Haskins donors throughout the year 

Haskins Founder $10,000–$24,999

• Invitation to the NYU Alumni Awards Ceremony
• Priority access and seating at Signature Events, with special donor recognition
• Invitation to the annual Haskins Giving Society Awards Dinner
• Insider tours of the Stern campus 
• Exclusive invitations to events for Haskins donors throughout the year

Chairman's Circle $25,000+

• Exclusive invitations to premier industry and networking events, featuring leading faculty and business thought-leaders
• Invitation to the NYU Alumni Awards Ceremony
• Priority access and seating at Signature Events, with special donor recognition
• Invitation to the annual Haskins Giving Society Awards Dinner
• Insider tours of the Stern campus 
• Exclusive invitations to events for Haskins donors throughout the year

Recent Graduates

Haskins Fellow: Graduate Alumni

$500 for graduate alumni from the last 0–5 years (Graduate 2025–2020)
$1,000 for graduate alumni from the last 6–10 years (Graduate 2019–2015)

Young Haskins Associate: Undergraduate College Alumni

$250 for undergraduate alumni from the last 0–5 years (Undergraduate 2025–2020)
$500 for undergraduate alumni from the last 6–10 years (Undergraduate 2019–2015)

• Invitation to the annual Haskins Giving Society Awards Dinner
• Membership in the NYU Violet Leadership Circle (VLC)

All Haskins members receive the Haskins edition of the Stern Insider, Stern's monthly e-newsletter; the NYU Alumni Card; a copy of STERN BUSINESS, the alumni magazine; opportunities to travel with NYU Alumni; and recognition in the annual donor report.

Charles Waldo Haskins (1852–1903) was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering), and studied art in Paris. Haskins was co-founder of the accounting firm Haskins and Sells, a predecessor to Deloitte. He advocated for reliable accounting principles and worked toward creating the standards, legislation, and bodies that set up the CPA laws in New York that then spread throughout the United States. 

In 1900, he was the founding dean of the earliest professional school of business, then named the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance. During his tenure at NYU, he served as a professor of auditing and the history of accountancy. Haskins was a frequent lecturer and had a missionary zeal for accounting standards–he once described the public accountant as one who "understands the anatomy and physiology of business and the rules of health of corporations, partnerships, and individual enterprises. He diagnoses abnormal conditions and suggests approved remedies. His study and interest is the soundness of the world of affairs." Many of Haskins philosophies of business education remain central to Stern's mission.