A special thank you to our outgoing board and committee members:
- Patti Pon – Board
- Greg Lohnes – Board
- Catherine Best – Board
- Catherine Best – Audit
- Greg Lohnes – Governance
- Blake Walker – Investment
- Lesley Myles – Children, Youth and Families
- George Damian – Education & Lifelong Learning
- Rod Ruff – Environment
- Seyi Smith – Environment
- Zaheed Damani – Health & Wellness co-chair also was on Grants Committee
- Dinu Maligaspe – Health & Wellness
- Eileen Kwan – Neighbour Grants
- Lisa Demers – Neighbour Grants
Note: The Chair of the Board and CEO are ex officio members of all committees.
2019 - 2020
Jim Brownlee, CFP, CLU, CH.F.C., Chair.
Hyder Hassan, CFP, CIM, PFP
Blaine Lennox, CFA
Melanie McDonald, LL.B, TEP
Susan O’Brien, B. COMM CIM FCSI
Elizabeth Peters
Audit
Catherine Best
Jim Brownlee
Robert (Bob) Gibson
Blaine Lennox
Phil Scherman, Chair
Garth Wong
Denise Bright
Governance
Ali Bhojani
Murray Laverty
Gregory Lohnes
Siân Matthews
Melanie McDonald
Wes Peters, Chair
Patti Pon
Granting
Zaheed Damani
Sherry Ferronato
John Fischer
Amanda Koyama
Murray Laverty, Chair
Ken Lima-Coelho
Lisa Moore
Kirby Redwood
Anne-Marie Syslak
Donald Thurston
Hugh Williamson
Investment
Jim Brownlee
John Fischer
Bob Gibson
Gordon Hoy
Carl Landry
Blaine Lennox, Chair
Paul Moynihan
Geeta Sankappanavar
Phil Sherman
Blake Walker
Impact Investing
Sunny Delaney-Clark
John Fischer, Chair
Marco Fok
Robert (Bob) Gibson
Chris Lohnes
Alykhan Nanji
David Phillips
Phil Scherman
Narmin Ismail-Teja
Major & Signature Grants
Cathy Cochrane
Dale Ens
Sherry Ferronato
Beverley Foy
Murray Laverty
Chima Nkemdirim
Patti Pon, Chair
Betty Schultz
Arts & Heritage
Sybil Choles
Alexi Davis
Nicole Dawe
Kajsa Erickson
Anne Green
Murray Laverty
Anila Lee Yuen
Ken Lima-Coelho, Chair
Patricia McLeod
Christy Morgan
Emiko Muraki
Dean Paddock
Dale Turri
Bob van Wegen
Children Youth & Families
Russ Baker
Leanne Courchesne
Jennifer Craddock
Henri Giroux
Munir Jivraj
Kike Koya
Murray Laverty
Lesley Myles
Jaspreet Sandhu
Jessica Schneider
Buffy St-Amand
Leslie Tamagi
Hugh Williamson, Chair
Ariam Wolde-Giorgis
Daryl K. Seaman Canadian Hockey Fund
Tim Bjornson
Patricia Calvert-Seaman
Cassie Campbell-Pascall
Craig Conroy
Jon Cornish
Murray Laverty
Rilee Manybears
Katy Murdoch
Beckie Scott
Sue Scott
Donald Thurston, Chair
Education & Lifelong Learning
Noureddine Bouissoukrane
Charles Buchanan
Johanna Clark
George Damian
Dianne Goodman
Lisha Hassanali
Amanda Koyama, Chair
Murray Laverty
Megan Marshall
Lorraine Pelletier
Justin Reti
Nilima Sonpal-Valias
Zain Velji
Environment
Guy Innes
Hamish Kerfoot
Murray Laverty
Milton Ortega
Patty Richards
Simon Ross
Rod Ruff
Seyi Smith
Alexandra Stante
Roxanne Steen
Anne-Marie Syslak, Chair
Health & Wellness
Wegahta Berhane
Zaheed Damani, Co-Chair
David Este
Debbie Goulard
Katherine Harmsworth
Alice Lam
Murray Laverty
Jamie Leong-Huxley
Dinu Maligaspe
Ravi Natt
Robert Paré
Patti Pon
Kirby Redwood, Co-Chair Joanne Shaver
Neighbour Grants
Sue DePaul
William Dickson
Dwight Farahat
Mark Hopkins
Eileen Kwan
Murray Laverty
Janet Lavoie
Judy Lawrence
Lisa Moore, Chair
Diyana Woldegebrael
Accounting
Madison Banks
Tracy Beairsto
Jen Craddock
Katie Kemp
George Liritzis
Jeff Lutzak
Janelle Steele
Irene Wong
Office
Maria Dewaele
Angelita Stevenson
Aamna Amer
Aydin Bhojani
Karl Buhler
Alex Dong
Kevin Guan
Hiba Mahmood
Martina Min
Ysa Montemayor
Sawaira Saadat
Werknesh Tesfaye
Diyana Woldegebrael
Sorrayah Bhojani (support volunteer)
John C. Armstrong, QC
Dr. Bill Dickson
Donald T. Hatch, QC
Louis W. MacEachern
Ross F. Phillips, FCA
Don Thurston
Thank you to AltoPartners / Bluestone Leadership Services Inc. for their support in reviewing and evaluating our board and committee member recruitment process.
If you have questions about our committees, please contact our Grants & Volunteer Program Associate, Brigitte von Rothemburg.