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September Seminar & Social: AFP Central Ontario Charting Your Career Path

AFP Central Ontario presents a facilitated discussion with a panel of fundraising and philanthropy professionals from varied specialties and organizations.

How do you turn an interest in fundraising into a career in philanthropy? What skills are the most important to develop? What are employers looking for? And how do you set yourself up for success over the longer term?

Panelists will discuss their career paths, education, certification and resume development. The goal will be to help you take a conscious approach to developing your toolkit, resume and network.

The presentation will be followed by an informal social networking event at Hooligans in downtown Barrie.

Panelists:

Tom Horlor, partner at Hallett Horlor Inc.

Dale Biddell, Chief Executive Officer, United Way Simcoe Muskoka
....In a career almost entirely spent in the nonprofit sector Dale has experience in executive, consulting and community-leadership roles. She began an independent consulting practice in 1996 following development and advancement roles in higher education, community services and both the federal and provincial governments.

Adept at organizational review and transformation; strategy and human resource planning; and board development and governance - she is an advocate for collaboration and solving social issues through the intersection of the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

She completed a two-year restructure of the United Way in the South Georgian Bay region that culminated in a union with the larger United Way Greater Simcoe County, where she became the interim Chief Executive Officer in 2014 and was permanently appointed in 2015. Since joining United Way she has undertaken an organizational restructure and developed a new business model with an aligned three-year growth strategy. She initiated and has completed a collaborative process that has welcomed the District of Muskoka creating a regional United Way.

In a volunteer capacity, she has served on numerous boards, in the children and youth sector, health, education, sport and recreation and social services and in particular has a passion for childrens mental health. She served for nine years, including the Presidents role, on the Board of Directors for Kinark Child and Family Services, a provincial childrens mental health agency. She also served as a Director and Chair of Major Gifts for the Kinark Foundation.

Dale has established four charitable foundations, and earned an M.A. in Philanthropy and Development from St. Marys University, MN.

Katelyn Lees, Associate Manager, Philanthropy and Community Engagement at Barrie Public Library

Sue-Ellen Boyes, Director of Development and Marketing at the MacLaren Art Centre....Since 2011, Sue-Ellen's fundraising priorities at the MacLaren Art Centre have been focused on developing multi-year corporate partnerships for exhibitions and programs, fine-tuning the gallerys special event fundraising, building a leadership group of individual donors and re-energizing the annual membership program.

Sue-Ellen has worked in development and communications for more than twenty years, managing successful fundraising and marketing campaigns for not-for-profit visual arts, theatre and educational organizations including the Shaw Festival, the Varley Art Gallery, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Havergal College. She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and holds an honours degree in English with an Arts Administration specialization in fundraising and marketing. Her undergrad work experiences included stints at the Canadian Opera Company, the Council for Business and the Arts, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Arts Administration Resource Centre (Edmonton, AB). Sue-Ellen has been part of the Barrie community for many years along with her husband and their three children.