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Beth McCarthy, joins the DLSPH as Director of Advancement

January 27/2014

Dear DLSPH faculty, students, staff, alumni and other stakeholders

I am delighted to announce a new member of our administrative leadership team.  On March 31, Beth McCarthy will join us full-time as our inaugural Director of Advancement, in which position she will play a central role in launching the Faculty’s fundraising campaign — the first campaign of its kind for a Canadian school of public health.

Ms. McCarthy is a seasoned fundraiser with more than 20 years of experience in fundraising and philanthropy who will help us achieve our strategic vision through fundraising and development. She will develop, execute and evaluate a comprehensive advancement program, including all fundraising (major gifts, gift planning and annual giving), alumni relations and advancement communications activities for the Faculty.

In her current role as Director of Development for Queen’s University’s Faculty of Arts and Science, McCarthy enabled the Faculty to achieve 90 per cent of its fundraising goal.  I look forward to working with her and taking our mission to the next level.

Please welcome Ms. McCarthy in her new role.

I would also like to take this occasion to thank Tracey Brown for the outstanding work she has done for the DLSPH over the last eight months.  Seconded to us from the University’s Division of Advancement, Tracey skillfully stewarded our existing and several new donor relationships, created some of our first case studies and strategies for Advancement, and began the process of building our first Campaign Cabinet.  As a great friend of DLSPH, we will be following her career and wish her the greatest success.

Howard Hu, Dean

Beth McCarthy – Inaugural Director of Advancement, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Beth McCarthy, MA, CFRE, a senior-level fundraiser will become the Dalla Lana School in Public Health’s inaugural Director of Advancement, effective March 31, 2014.

McCarthy will help DLSPH achieve its strategic vision by building the advancement program and leading the Faculty’s advancement team. McCarthy will develop, execute and evaluate a comprehensive advancement program, including fundraising (major gifts, gift planning and annual giving) and alumni relations to raise the profile and create new opportunities for the Faculty.

McCarthy has 20 years of experience in leading integrated fundraising programs, staff teams and volunteer cabinets and committees.  Her expertise includes comprehensive annual and major gift campaigns in education, arts and culture and health care agencies.

Most recently, McCarthy served as Director of Development for Queen’s University’s Faculty of Arts and Science where she launched the Faculty’s component of the University’s Initiative Campaign, a $500-million fundraising goal, in fall 2012.  Prior to her role at Queen’s, McCarthy was Director of Individual Giving at Canadian Stage Company, where she created a strong culture of philanthropy with individual supporters, and increased patron revenue by 51 per cent in four years.

McCarthy completed both her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Guelph, completing her Masters in Drama in 1993. She then completed the Income Managers’ Program in 1997 which provided post-graduate training in marketing and fundraising in the arts sector by University of Waterloo, Orchestras Canada, and Genevese & Vanderhoof Consultants. Most recently, she completed the Queen’s Leadership Program at the School of Business.  McCarthy served as the President of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Southeastern Ontario Chapter from 2007 to2009 and qualified for her Certified Fund Raising Executive professional designation in 2006.

Relocating to University of Toronto is a coming home for McCarthy.  Growing up on Huron Street, she attended many U of T events as a child. Several family members are of University of Toronto alumni, including her grandfather, Douglas McCarthy  (Engineering, ‘29), father, Dale McCarthy (Medicine, ‘55), mother, Margaret Brown McCarthy, (Bachelor of Social Work, ’58, and Masters of Social Work, ’69),  and her great aunt, Doris McCarthy ’89, who returned to school in her mid-eighties at the University of Toronto Scarborough.