01: Sharon Avery

We're talking to Sharon Avery, CEO of the Toronto Foundation and one of Canada's most visionary and successful fundraisers. She's raised hundreds of millions of dollars for organizations, including sick kids foundation, UNICEF Canada, and she's been at the helm of the Toronto Foundation for five years. Sharon has a gift for inspiring and educating people about giving and engaging with people who wouldn't typically call themselves philanthropists. She's gone way beyond traditional fundraising to create innovative programs and compelling approaches that have a way of bringing individuals together around a vision of what's possible when we're all in this together. Join Lisa and one of her very best friends, who met on the first day of university at Ryerson!