1999 Award Recipients

Mr. Nicholas Offord

A development professional for fifteen years, Nicholas Offord has directed some of Canada's most innovative and groundbreaking fund raising campaigns.

Nicholas began his career as a fund raising consultant with Ketchum Canada Inc. working in progressively more responsible roles and as a Campaign Director with clients that included Concordia University, Mount Allison University and the Canadian Cancer society-Nova Scotia. Additionally, he served as counsel and campaign supervisor to a variety of charities including the Hamilton YWCA, the Halton Presbytery of the United Church and Mount Saint Vincent University.

In 1989 Nicholas became Director, Major Gifts at McGill University, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of a major giving program across McGill's twelve faculties and institutes. Appointed Executive Director of the McGill Development in 1992, he went on to organize the Major Gifts program in support of McGills $200 million campaign, at the time Canada's largest-ever fund raising drive.

Nicholas has been President, Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation of Toronto and Vice-President, Mount Sinai Hospital since 1995. In these capacities he is responsible for all institutional development activity including the execution of hospital's $100 million campaign, "The Best Medicine" the largest private fund raising campaign ever undertaken by a public health care institution in Canada.

A well known speaker across Canada on fund raising and community development, Nicholas has been active in a number of organizations including the *NSFRE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE), and the Association for Health care Philanthropy (AHP.) In 1994, the CCAE awarded him the Gold Medal for Best Development Program in Canada, for his model for decentralized major gift fund raising.

*Now AFP