Nanaimo Lunch and Learn Session with Karen Morgan: Small Charities Accomplishing Big
September 17, 2014
Lunch & Learn Programming Session with Karen Morgan
This is a bring your own lunch event; coffee and snacks will be available for purchase
CFRE Credits: 1.5
12:00 – 1:00 pm – Presentation
1:00 – 1:30 pm – Q & A
Charities need to be big to be efficient and effective - right? Wrong.
By keeping one eye on the bottom line and the other on the future, it is possible to have huge impact - on one's community and in the charitable world by being small.
The Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation is one amazingly effective charity, raising more than $4.5 million in 2013-14 and overseeing projects that have rebuilt large sections of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital. The most advanced operating rooms on Vancouver Island; 10,000 square foot Emergency Room, state-of-the-art CT Scanner, major donor and hospital staff recognition programmes. All of this has been done with a staff of two - dedicated, knowledgeable and visionary women.
Karen Morgan, Executive Director, will share her secrets of staying small and accomplishing big.
Karen Morgan, Executive Director, Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation
Biography
Armed with an MBA, experience in marketing consulting to non-profits and some years of political experience, Karen launched herself into the world of fundraising in 1998. In 2000, she moved to Vancouver Island to head up the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation. During her fifteen years, she has overseen campaigns to renovate the Emergency and Extended Care Departments, build three state-of-the-art Operating Rooms, purchase major pieces of equipment and assist in funding the creation of a beautiful and restful Palliative Care Unit. Now she is working with her board to strategically position the Foundation to meet community healthcare needs in a system that is rapidly changing.
She lives in beautiful Deep Cove and has volunteered with a variety of community organizations, including the Memorial Park Society and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She is Past-President of the Sidney by the Sea Rotary Club and recently was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. In what little spare time she and her husband have, they dress in clown costume and makes balloon animals.