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Skills and Experience

Skills and experience highlights include:
  • Project management for all aspects of fundraising programs and events needs assessment, strategic planning, development, implementation and evaluation
  • Expertise in event budgeting for maximum transparency in post event results analysis
  • Strategic and operational planning expertise for all types of events
  • Fundraising team development including position development, recruiting, supervising, coaching and skills development for fundraising and events staff
  • Strategic development of volunteer programs including recruitment, training and support for individual event volunteers, volunteers for leadership positions as well as management, coaching and stewardship of senior volunteer leadership event committees
  • Complete corporate sponsorship program development including innovative benefits creation, activation opportunities, signed letters of agreement, sponsor reports and ongoing stewardship and relationship building
  • Development of corporate partner programs including specific marketing goals, employee and client connections
  • Proficient in leveraging technology of MS Office, Luminate (Convio), and Raiser’s Edge to meet fundraising goals
  • Event risk management strategy development including health and safety, CRA regulations and identification of liability issues and concerns
  • Management of operations and strategy development for third party and community events from small to large scale events
  • Additional fundraising programs such as tributes and door-to-door residential canvass  
  • Relationship building among a wide variety of partners and individuals, including stewardship and recognition programs
 
Formal training includes:

  • Association of Fundraising Professional (AFP): presenter at Fundraising Day, attended 6 congresses and ethics course

  • Attended several Raiser’s Edge training courses (in-house and external) and participated on working groups

  • City of Toronto Emergency Management Planning - Introduction

  • Peer2Peer Fundraising Canada Conference

  • St. Joseph's Health Centre Change Management course

  • Sponsorship Group seminar

  • Stitt Feld Handy Alternative Dispute Resolution course

  • Canadian Fundraisers Key-to-the-Sector workshop - Policy and Procedure Development,

  • Schulich Facilitative Management course

  • IEG Sponsorship Conference

  • Skillpath Conflict Management Skills course

 

Formal education:

  • Wellness and Lifestyle Management Post-graduate Diploma, Centennial College, Scarborough, ON

  • Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) – Psychology and Sociology, Business Minor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

 
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