Secrets to a Successful Capital Campaign

Is your organization seeking transformational support for a capital project or large campaign, but you don't know where to start? Join Lindsay McDermott and AFP London & Region to explore the steps to take, tools to leverage and secrets that can help organizations of any size launch a successful campaign and exceed funding goals.

Lindsay McDermott is a dynamic fundraising leader with over 20 years of experience driving strategic growth for social impact organizations across Canada. Her expertise lies in aligning mission-driven initiatives with funder priorities to unlock sustainable, transformational outcomes.

With a career rooted in community service and enriched by global travel and volunteerism, Lindsay has cultivated deep sector knowledge spanning healthcare, community development, youth engagement, social innovation, and animal welfare. She is known for her authentic, relationship-centered approach—building trust with donors, clients, and colleagues while translating passion into purpose through compelling impact experiences.

Lindsay’s portfolio has generated over $23 million for community-based organizations in roles such as: national grant management at CNIB, major gift program development at the YMCA of Southwestern Ontario, and capital campaign leadership for Humane Society London & Middlesex—raising funds in under two years to construct a new animal shelter. Her recent engagements include:

• Capital campaign strategy and counsel for small to mid-sized charities
• Interim executive leadership and organizational capacity building
• Grant and major gift program development for grassroots arts organizations
• Year-end appeal strategy for youth-focused nonprofits

As a trusted advisor, Lindsay partners with organizations to optimize revenue, streamline systems, and build scalable fundraising programs that can be seamlessly integrated for internal capacity building. In 2025, she was appointed a Senior Consultant with Global Philanthropic Canada, the country's largest full-service consulting firm.

Connect with Lindsay for a complimentary consultation: Lindsay McDermott: fundraising expert in strategic growth in Ontario | Global Philanthropic Canada

This session is generously sponsored by CharityCAN.

CharityCAN is dedicated to helping Canadian charitable organization use data to become more efficient. Finding major gifts is an important and time-consuming task. Researching the capacity, propensity and affinity of an individual, company or foundation for giving can take days. When the research is done, there’s also the question of how to connect with your new donor.

CharityCAN indexes several datasets including donation histories, biographies and wealth indicators, enabling you to find all the data you need with a single search. We use machine learning methodologies to group these separate data points into donor profiles and build a relationship graph to reveal connections between prospective donors and your organization.

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