A Business in Vancouver “Forty under 40” award winner will steer the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation through one of the largest hospital redevelopments in Canada.
Jeff Norris was announced as the foundation’s new president and CEO Monday.
Norris earned the Business in Vancouver award in January for his work at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), where, since 2006, he has held the positions of chief advancement officer, CEO of the KPU Foundation and executive director of the KPU Alumni Association.
Norris helped Kwantlen increase its fundraising activities more than tenfold.
Norris also oversaw KPU’s marketing department, external and government relations department and served on KPU’s senior executive team.
“Jeff has a long history in fundraising work and has made a positive impression on every non-profit he’s joined,” Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation chair Doug Eveneshen said in a press release Monday.
Norris started his career with the Heart and Stroke Foundation in the early 1990s as a university student before he moved to the West Coast – working first for the Kidney Foundation and then joining St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation in 1999.
Norris spent seven years as director of annual and corporate giving at St. Paul’s, and helped increase that foundation’s annual fundraising from $2.5 million to $10 million. This included the foundation’s marquee campaign, Lights of Hope, which Norris grew from $167,000 to $1.7 million annually.
In 2012, he was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club of Ladner for his community work.
Norris, who is married and has two daughters, is active in his community and regularly contributes as a volunteer and board member of various associations.
Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation is a provincial and regional independent charitable foundation that raises millions of dollars annually to help fund priority equipment needs, facility enhancements, research, education and innovation at Royal Columbian Hospital. For more information about Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation, visit www.rchfoundation.com or contact us at 604 520 4438.
