Suzanne Gibson, Contributing Editor, Corporate Partnerships

Suzanne Gibson has been working in the nonprofit community-based sector in Canada for over fifteen years. Working with local, provincial, national and international organizations, her focus has been primarily in areas related to social service provision, including poverty, homelessness, community services, children’s and youth programming, immigrant and refugee services, and women's issues.

As founding Executive Director of Raising the Roof, Suzanne led a team of committed staff and volunteers in the development of a new charity dedicated to finding long-term solutions to homelessness. Over a three-year period, she was able to leverage $15,000 into $1.4 million in support. Further, during this time, the organization secured more than $1.3 million in media gift-in-kind. This work involved developing and managing extensive partnerships in the corporate, faith, foundation, and media sectors.

As a consultant since 1993, Suzanne has worked with more than sixty nonprofit organizations to help them develop the resources, organizational capacity and leadership to achieve their mandates and vision. Suzanne is an instructor at Ryerson University in Toronto in the fundraising certificate program and speaks extensively on a wide range of issues related to fund development, leadership, and nonprofit management.