Recent Association Management Work

• Legal development of the Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA)
  • Secretary-Treasurer now – $1M organization
• Executive Director, Canadian Urban Libraries Council (2008 present) / $250K. Recent CULC projects include:
  • Leading a government relations campaign and public awareness about econtent pricing for libraries. Our campaign on behalf of libraries in Canada was joined and expanded by a library association in the US.
  • COVID-19 resource for Canadian libraries, a task force was launched in April and a 100-page publication, and companion website with additional resources, was published at the end of May 2020 including 7 webinars with more than 2,000 participants and resulted in several new members for CULC.
  • A leadership training program run through the University of Toronto for upper-level management experience.
• Sponsorship Development RFP for Forest of Reading® – resulted in more than $500,000 for the client over the next three years (2015–2018)
• CELPLO Consortium on Electronic Database (2009–2011) / $1M per annum
• Administrated the Digital Skills for Youth (2018–2020) internship program for libraries and partner organizations across Canada
• Community Access Program Youth Initiative – Ontario (1996–2017 program ended) / $1.8M per annum.
• Interim CEO – Knowledge Ontario (2011–2015) / $1.2M
• Doing wind-down on behalf of the Board of Directors
• Maintain the Charitable Status of the organization
• Our Digital World (2011–2012) / $250K
• NFP Set-up and development of a Governance Model for becoming a legitimate NFP contributor. Includes URLs and Vita Toolkit absorption.

Event Management & Revenue Generation

• The County Foundation fund management increased from $290,000 in 2017 to almost $5M in 2019.
• OLA Super Conference – annually produce a professional conference for 4,500+ attendees in Toronto. More than $1.2M event. Have done for more than 25 years.
  • Currently transitioning to a virtual event
• Have built the Annual MILK Hockey Tournament in Prince Edward County from a 5 team, one-day event to a more than 40 team, 3-day event with economic spin-off to the Quinte Region of more than approximately $400,000.
• Badge Studio to build registration system – drove direct savings and accuracy in food & beverage, as well as accounting department process improvements.
• European Study Tour – September/October 2011. Four countries; 22 institutional visits; 19 CEOs and Architects. A second tour in April 2020, was cancelled due to COVID-19.
• OLA Super Conference EXPO Sales – 2015 sales exceeded $435K – up 2.9%.
  • Currently transitioning to virtual EXPO.
• Child & Youth EXPO – exhibit & sponsorship sales (2015–2018, 2020)
• RA in a Day – exhibit & sponsorship sales (2014–2019)
• Annual Institute on the Library as Place – exhibit & sponsorship sales (2011–2019)
• The Teaching Librarian Advertising Representation.