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Chris A. Meinzer, senior director and COO for The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), is a CPA with more than 35 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Since joining the ATS staff in 1999, he has provided oversight of ATS financial and business affairs as well as the ATS institutional database—a repository of institutional, enrollment, personnel, financial, and development data provided by ATS members. Meinzer has done extensive analysis and research of this data and presented his findings in a variety of settings to administrators and boards of theological schools.
Meinzer has provided counsel to ATS member schools on issues of finances, organizational planning, and strategic thinking. He has shared his conceptual framework of Mission, Models, and Money with many theological schools, which has assisted them in thinking about their current and future realities. Through discussions with theological schools and their leadership, he has encouraged reflection on intergenerational stewardship and its impact on both academics and economics within these schools. He has designed and implemented the ATS Strategic Information Report and the ATS Financial Viability Tool, useful strategic tools that provide ATS member schools with peer and industry data on a variety of market fundamentals.
Meinzer holds a Master of Divinity degree from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and an accounting degree from The Pennsylvania State University.
