Biography - Rob Lavery, CFRE

Rob Lavery is the Resource Development Consultant for Southern Ontario Library Service, providing information and training to public library staff and volunteers in the areas of fundraising and volunteer management.

He has held this position since Sept 1998, during which time he has developed and delivered workshops in planned giving, annual planning, effective grant proposals, capital campaigns, special events and mail programs, volunteer program management and fundraising roles and responsibilities; maintained a newsgroup for fundraising staff in library systems across the province; maintained a clearinghouse of resources of particular interest to public libraries on a variety of fundraising topics; and provided consulting on demand for public libraries on a variety of fundraising topics, including policy development, working with volunteers, types of campaigns, and new technologies.

Rob is a Certified Fund Raising Executive, the certification bestowed by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Rob has been a professional fundraiser since 1994 and gained his certification in 1999. In June of 2004, Rob was chosen to apply for AFP International’s Faculty Training Program. Rob is now one of only 75 designated Master Trainers for his professional association.

Rob has been a sessional lecturer in fundraising at Humber College for the post-graduate certificate course in Cultural Management from 2000 to 2005. He also is a facilitator for an online course in Volunteer Program Management for Georgian College.

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