Kimberley MacKenzie sat down for an interview with Maxime Rivet, our STTV correspondent on Day 1 of the 2010 AFP Congress in Toronto. Kimberley is a passionate and forward-thinking fundraiser, and we are extremely lucky to have her here in Toronto.

Kimberley specializes in quickly building and restructuring fundraising programs to exponentially increase revenue. She excels at motivating senior level volunteers, managing change and cutting through red tape to get the job done. In her ten years as a fundraiser Kimberley has worked for regional, provincial and national organizations. During her leadership the Lake Simcoe Conservation Foundation increased revenue by an average of 35 percent per year for four years and received the small organization award for excellence in fundraising from the AFP Toronto Chapter.

Kimberley has presented at the South Asian Fundraising Workshop in India and the International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands. She now serves as Director of Development for Ontario Nature and volunteers as the Canadian ambassador for the SOFII Foundation. www.SOFII.org. You can chat with Kimberley on twitter via @kimberleycanada or read her blog from the trenches www.kimberleymackenzie.blogspot.com