Cathy Mann

Cathy Mann is an award-winning fundraising professional, teacher, author, and podcaster. Since 2007, as part of Cathy Mann & Associates (now The Fundraising Lab), Mann has provided fundraising advice to multi-level and community-based organizations working in social justice, with youth, in education with indigenous communities, and healthcare. She led Ryerson University’s Fundraising Management Certificate program as Academic Coordinator from 2008 to 2018, and taught in the program for 16 years. You can hear Mann interview Shift Disturbers in Philanthropy on her It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask! podcast. She is AFP Greater Toronto’s 2018 Outstanding Fundraising Professional. In 2015, Mann was recognized by Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota for excellence in scholarship. In 2007, under her leadership, Frontier College Foundation won the “Excellence In Fundraising for Small Shops Award,” from the International Association of Fundraising Professionals, representing 30,000+ fundraisers from 7 countries. Mann has a Masters of Philanthropy from Saint Mary's University (Minnesota) and a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University (Montreal).