Buy delicious, peanut and nut-free cookies (gluten-free and vegan options too!) in packages of 40 frozen cookie dough drops in each 800g box that you bake at home between March 1 – 24. Just in time for Easter Baking!
Terra Cotta Cookies will assign commission to Townsend Smith Foundation for each package of dough purchased.
Pick up your cookie dough Thursday April 7th, 2022. Be sure to pick up your cookies between 3pm & 6pm at Andrews Scenic Acres; 9365 10th Sideroad Halton Hills, L9T 2X9
Each cookie you eat donates 13 cents to building the first hospice residence for North Halton!
Only 15% of Canadians have early access to palliative care in the community, if 15% of North Halton buys 1 box of cookies we could raise $127,500 for our hospice!
Guidelines recommend 7 – 10 hospice beds per 100,000 people, there are currently NO beds in our growing community of 170,000 people. Invite 10 people to buy cookies and you raise $50 to build those beds
Happy eating and sharing.
Share online with Friends and Family Between March 1st – 24th
Campaign Director – 3 Year Contract Deadline: March 11, 2022
The Townsend Smith Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide access to palliative care for residents of North Halton, serving the needs of terminally ill people and their families. To provide individualized care based on trust, integrity and personal choice offering physical, social, emotional and spiritual support in a comfortable and compassionate environment. The Townsend Smith Foundation is planning to build a 10-bed hospice in North Halton. To realize this goal, Townsend Smith Foundation is seeking a Campaign Director.
The Campaign Director will be responsible to create and implement a strategic approach to a comprehensive capital fundraising program, which includes major donor solicitation, individual and corporate donations, grant solicitation, special events, planned giving, third party fundraising and sponsorship. Integral to the strategic approach is the development and implementation of a donor stewardship program and a communications and marketing plan.
This is a new position for Townsend Smith Foundation. Reporting directly to the Executive Director and working in collaboration with the Board Fundraising Committee, the Coordinator of Fundraising, Cabinet and volunteers.
As Campaign Director your primary responsibility is to lead the Capital Campaign and overall fundraising strategies by building capacity to cultivate and solicit prospects at the leadership/major gift level and developing major gift strategies.
Currently this position will work from home, with frequent travel expected to meet with prospects and attend meetings.
Experience and Skills
A minimum of 5 – 10 years of extensive philanthropic leadership gained over 2 – 3 organizations managing major gifts programs using moves management and donor-centred fundraising.
Superior planning skills, including working with team members to develop the major gift program. Excellent communication and relationship building skills with an ability to prioritize, negotiate, and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
Demonstrated success raising funds from diverse cultural communities
Demonstrated commitment to accountability, measuring outcomes in a results-oriented culture
Excellent presentation skillsYou are comfortable using a donor database, prospect research and other wealth screening tools to assist in your strategy.
Demonstrated ability to cultivate and sustain donor relationships.
Working Style
A self-starter and goal oriented.
Ability to build and work with a team, develop a strategic approach and inspire the team toward the goals.
Ability to develop the strategy, implement it and to sell it internally.
Diplomatically, respectfully and collaboratively work with a wide variety of people; altering style based on the environment.Able to understand the community and the diverse nature of the community.
Confident and mature with an executive presence and strong emotional intelligence.
Strategic and collaborative; a team player and builder with a commitment to creating a positive and inclusive working environment
Education
Bachelor’s degree or college diploma or the equivalent management experience in a related field.
Commitment to ongoing professional development.
Assets
Demonstrated experience building a capital program from “the ground up”.
CFRE designation (is beneficial).Understanding of Hospice Palliative Care.
The Townsend Smith Foundation is strongly committed to diversity within its staff, Board and volunteers, and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons living with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
Salary and Benefit Information: $125,000 to $150,000 commensurate with experience
To Apply: Qualified applicants are invited to submit their resume and cover letter by email to ktesser@townsend-smith.ca by March 11, 2022.
We thank all applicants for applying, however, only qualified candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Bev Mattocks is one of our star volunteers from the Acton community. Thank you Bev for your great fund-raising success, particularly for Hike for Hospice, and your advocacy for the need for hospice in North Halton! Bev said at a recent meeting of TSF’s Awareness Committee, “The passing of a loved one is a traumatic event for family and friends, and will stay in their memories forever. The hospice community can make those memories a little easier by providing a special kind of caring.” Hospital palliative care beds have lower staffing ratios than those in a hospice, and medical personnel have more demands on their time and attention. A hospice has only one focus, which is to support the person who is dying, and the needs of their loved ones, with a smaller staff-to-resident ratio augmented by the warm and compassionate support of volunteers.
Please join us in welcoming Theresa Greer to the Townsend Smith Foundation as Part-Time Executive Director.
Originally from the Barrie area, Theresa and her husband Murray have lived in Georgetown since 1991. Their son, Kevin, daughter-in-law Catherine and two young grandchildren are at the heart of their family circle.
Theresa worked most recently as Executive Director of Heart House Hospice, which serves Brampton and Mississauga. Under her leadership, the staff grew from 8 to 25 and the scope of programs, ranging from volunteer in-home palliative care support to counselling to health and wellness programs, expanded. In 2019, Theresa was instrumental in partnering Heart House with Trillium Health to build a 10-bed hospice for palliative care in Mississauga.
Theresa’s university degrees in Sociology, Psychology, and Social Work, combined with a certificate in Non-Profit Management and Leadership, have led to a rewarding career that include social work with the Children’s Aid Society in Peel Region, and 12 years as Executive Director at Halton Women’s Place, where she oversaw the building of two shelters for abused women. Other career highlights are a partnership with Punjabi Community Health Services to explore end of life needs for our South Asian population, and work with the Province of Ontario for funding of the Hospice Residence Program.
She has also chaired a number of Committees including for the Hospice Association of Ontario (now HPCO) Annual Conference, the Mississauga Halton Palliative Care Network and the Central West Palliative Care Network. She has extensive involvement with local and provincial community organizations such as the Peel Leadership Centre, Holcro Nonprofit Housing, and the Big Sister Association of Ontario. Theresa’s hobbies include golf, reading, and travel – she hopes to return to Ireland and Hawaii when it is safe to do so.
Thank you for joining Townsend Smith Foundation in our mission to provide access to residential palliative care for the residents of Milton and Halton Hills, Theresa. The road may be long, but together we’ll reach our goal!
Sonia Pedulla shares why hospice and palliative care is so important to our community and why raising money in her mom’s name has meant so much.
“On behalf of the Pedulla family we would like to thank everyone for their generous donations in memorial of Sylvia. Sylvia was a loving wife, mother and grandmother (Nonna). She was a kind, caring and a giving woman. Her house was always open to all and always filled with family and friends. This cause meant a lot to her as not many families are as fortunate as her to have been at home and in close proximity to all her loved ones. We are so grateful to have raised this money so we can help palliative patients be as close to their families as Sylvia was to hers. Having a hospice in town gives these patients the palliative care they need and still be with their loved ones . Sylvia always did what she could to help our community, she was a very special lady, she was touched by many and loved by all. By raising this money as one last thing in her honour would have meant the world to her. “ – Sonia Pedulla
