Philanthropic Counsel

 With more than 25 years of philanthropic leadership experience, Jeff O'Hagan has served as a university advancement and foundation executive at several of Canada's leading healthcare and higher education institutions. He is a high-performing team player with a proven reputation for transformational fundraising results and a strong focus on matching donors’ philanthropic aspirations with the key strategic priorities of impact driven organizations.

While serving as CEO of Sunnybrook Hospital Foundation and Vice-President, University Advancement at both York University and Western University, Jeff led teams raising up to $100 million in philanthropic support annually. 

Jeff is a successful campaign strategist with a track record of designing, building and executing comprehensive fundraising and alumni engagement campaigns. In more than two decades of fundraising, he has engaged with thousands of donors, volunteers and staff colleagues, and participated in and led numerous comprehensive fundraising campaigns totaling more than $2.5 billion. 

With a deep understanding and appreciation of the philanthropic and non-profit landscape, he has built and led diverse and effective staff and volunteer teams that have successfully partnered with generous philanthropic donors to make a lasting and positive impact on the community and address some of the world's most important societal issues. 

Jeff has a wide range of experience to share with non-profit leaders and boards including fundraising leadership and strategy, major and transformational giving, planned giving, donor relations and stewardship, alumni engagement, campaign strategy and execution, volunteer and board engagement, and staff mentoring.

We provide strategic advice and counsel to philanthropic leaders, supporting and enabling them to increase fundraising results and build organizational capacity to make a sustainable impact on the world's most pressing challenges

Our extensive and customized services for non-profit CEOs, philanthropy leaders and boards increase fundraising results and build sustainable programs and teams. With decades of experience in major and transformational philanthropy, gift planning, campaign leadership, alumni and donor engagement, building staff capacity and coaching, we help organizations better capture the opportunity to build stronger communities and transform lives.

We like to to learn about the challenges and opportunities that non-profits and their leaders face. We then create a roadmap to outline the steps we will take together to advance key priorities. 

We're strategic, accountable and focused - and we get results.

We look forward to being your trusted partner.