Category: Canada Associates

Associate

Clare Northcott has spent 29 years working in the nonprofit sector, holding leadership positions in national community-based organizations. She has extensive knowledge of human resources, governance structures, resource development and financial accountability. She possesses strong skills in turnaround and restructuring strategies in organizations that have been struggling through various capacity, amalgamation or crisis issues. Clare earned her master’s degree in Philanthropy and Non-profit Leadership at the Carleton University in Ottawa.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Clare’s expertise is in Board Training, Management and Governance. She has a breadth of experience in a variety of fund development strategies such as Annual Giving Campaigns, Major Gifts, and Planned Giving.

Sector Experience: Community Based Membership and Advocacy

Clare’s fundraising must have: Develop authentic relationships with donors that inspires them to share your vision and compels them to give.

Contact Clare at: [email protected]

Junior Associate

Ammna Nasser is a skilled social researcher and published author with a focus on identity politics, counterterrorism, risk and financial crimes. She has demonstrated strong analytic skillsets across the financial services, consulting, higher education and academic research sectors in the Middle East, West Africa, Europe, and North America.

Currently serving as an analyst in Global Risk Management, Anti-Money Laundering (High-Risk Sectors) for the Royal Bank of Canada, her experience also includes serving as the Middle East & Northern Africa (MENA) Liaison Officer for the King’s College London Think Tank where she monitored existing and established new partnerships with journalists, diplomats and professors, and Liaison & Research Officer for the South Asia and Middle East Forum, U.K., addressing geo-political conflicts in the Middle East, composing briefing reports for the British Parliament, and reporting the forum from the House of Commons in London for Diplomatic Magazine.

Ammna holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in International Development from Middlesex University, U.K., and a Master of Arts in International Relations from King’s College London’s renowned Department of War Studies. In addition to English, she speaks Urdu, Hindi, and Arabic.

Ammna’s volunteer work includes serving the Royal Bank of Canada Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the C.D. Howe Institute & WOMAN ACT, the United Nations Association-Canada branch, and Global Service Learning for Amizade, in Jukwa Village Ghana.

Ammna has published extensively including, The Era of ‘Dirty Data’: Understanding Who Said What and How, for the Women in Security Committee of ASIS International, the worlds largest membership organization for security management professionals.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Ammna is an expert in Risk Management and Fundraising Governance, Donor and Constituent Engagement and Project Management

Sector Experience: Community Based Advocacy and Membership Organizations, including Micro-Finance, and Higher Education

Ammna’s Fundraising Must Have: Strategic vision, sustainability, and a commitment to transparency to all stakeholders

Contact Ammna at: [email protected]

Junior Associate

Working primarily with corporate and foundation donors in both large and small fundraising shops, Rosie Michel is skilled at cultivating relationships with reliability and donor impact in mind. A thoughtful and driven leader, Rosie is motivated by projects that benefit communities at large, and that connect donors to the impact they are making. Rosie has a background in healthcare communications, both in the hospital and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as in the social services sector. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Humanities and Film Studies from Carleton University and her Public Relations graduate certificate from Humber College.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Rosie’s expertise is in Corporate Social Responsibility for both large non-profits and small grass roots charities.

Sector Experience: Hospitals; Healthcare; Social Services; Broadcast Media

Rosie’s fundraising must have: A leadership giving program. This is a simple, low-cost way to increase donor loyalty and multi-year giving. Ask how we can help with that.

Contact Rosie at: [email protected]

Associate

Melissa McGuirk McNeil has more than 10 years of experience building teams and engaging stakeholders in strategy development in the nonprofit sector. She is a seasoned fundraising professional with experience developing, implementing, and engaging a variety of audiences and invested parties in outreach programs, partnerships, and corporate social responsibility initiatives. Over the course of her career, Melissa has held senior development roles with the Ottawa Network for Education and United Way Ottawa. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Melissa’s core expertise is in Fundraising Campaigns and Strategic Planning. She also has vast experience in partnership development, corporate social responsibility, major gifts, annual giving, donor and constituent engagement, management and governance, volunteer training, facilitating, and data analytics.

Sector Experience: Education and social services

Melissa’s fundraising must have: Relationships are everything – talk to donors, learn their motivations for giving, and engage them in your work.

Contact Melissa at: [email protected]

Associate

Angie is a passionate, results-driven professional with over 15 years of experience partnering with nonprofit organizations in Canada and the Asia-Pacific region to achieve positive community results. She has an extensive experience providing advice to small grassroots community groups as well as established organizations by developing and instituting strategies to enhance operations, identify efficiencies, and establish support for their work. She also has proven success in connecting nonprofit organizations to influencers within the community, while forging and fostering key relationships among diverse networks of community organizations, stakeholders, funders, government agencies, academia and other partners both in Canada and internationally. Angie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communications from the University of Toronto.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Angie’s expertise is on Board Training and Governance and she also has extensive experience in Donor and constituent engagement, Partnership Development, Grant Proposal Research and Writing and Results-based Models (RBM) Grant Monitoring and Evaluation

Sector Experience: Community development in Canada and the Asia-Pacific region; Arts and Culture; Social Services; SMEs development

Angelita’s fundraising must have: Clear and open communications

Contact Angelita at: [email protected]

Senior Associate

With more than 20 years of experience in the Education sector, Laryssa Lebar specializes in Marketing and Communications, Digital Strategy, Donor and Constituent Engagement, and Project Management. Some of her previous experiences includes roles as Marketing and Communications Manager at Kingsway College School, Communications Manager at Upper Canada College, and Manager of Online Communications at Havergal College. Laryssa graduated from the University of Toronto with a Masters in Information Studies, specializing in Information Science.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Laryssa’s core strength is in marketing and communication. She also has wide experience in digital strategy, donor and constituent engagement and project management.

Sector Experience: Education; Healthcare; Community Based Membership & Advocacy

Laryssa’s fundraising must have: Clear and compelling prospect and constituent communications are fundamental to establishing and maintaining a donor relationship of support.

Contact Laryssa at: [email protected]