Get New Ideas to Grow Your Fundraising
If you’re struggling to grow your revenue, it could be because you need fresh ideas working for today’s most ambitious nonprofits. At the Build Good Summit, you’ll learn from fundraising leaders who are innovating to inspire generosity.
Building Canada’s Premiere Summit for Fundraisers
The lack of world-class fundraising conferences in Canada has left fundraisers with two choices: spend thousands of dollars to attend conferences elsewhere, or miss out altogether.
We’re putting an end to that.
When you attend the BuildGood Summit, you’re joining our mission to bring Canada’s most ambitious nonprofits together, for good. By coming together and sharing methods that have are working on our home turf—along with those working internationally—we'll all walk away with practical tips we can implement right now.
Featured Topics
What is working in donor acquisition and retention right now
How to scale monthly giving programs and recurring giving
How to build high-value fundraising programs using personalized marketing
On stage at the Build Good Summit
Shairoze Walji
Donor Acquisition Manager
UNHCR Canada
Christine Gilliland
Fundraising copywriter certified in Philanthropic Psychology
Hala Al‑Madi
Legacy Giving & Marketing
Amnesty International Canada
Jessica Brodribb
Legacy Giving & Marketing
Amnesty International Canada
Natalie St Amour
Director, Philanthropy, Indspire
Ronen Tal
Director, Integrated Marketing & Fundraising
Nature Conservancy of Canada
Michael Mitchell
VP of Advancement
Feed The Children
Carolina Bendaña
Director, Integrated Acquisition ST/STella!
Cherian Koshy
AI innovator and founder
NonprofitOS
Mike Duerksen
CEO
BuildGood
Nathan Hill
VP
NextAfter Institute
Victoria Mix Higginson
Deputy Director, Donor Acquisition
UNICEF Canada
Lina Mohamed
VP, Mass Marketing Canadian Cancer Society
Kevin Schulman
Founder & CEO, DonorVoice
Stefano Di Domenico, PhD
Researcher on financial psychology, motivation, and personality, DonorVoice
Jay Aber
Founder & CEO, The Aber Group
Sarah Ali
Founder & Lead Consultant, SA Digital
Michael Johnston
Founder & President, hjc
Salvatore Salpietro
Chief Community Officer, FundraiseUp
Philip King
Managing Director, STella!
The Five Minute Fundraising Fix
Hannah Vermeer
Fundraising Copywriter, BuildGood
Claire Kerr
Director, Canada Care2
Carly Funk
Sr. Designer, BuildGood
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The Build Good Summit is your ticket to world-class fundraising innovation and inspiration in person, surrounded by 350 of your peers, in an intimate setting. It’s about coming together with ambitious fundraisers in person and learning from each other.
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How UNICEF Canada Built, Launched and Scaled Postcards From Paddington—A Flagship Branded Monthly Giving Program
Imagine the impact you could make if your organization had predictable, repeatable, and scalable revenue? UNICEF Canada will share how they created and scaled Postcards From Paddington, an innovative monthly giving subscription that sends postcards from all around the world to Canadian families making a monthly gift.
Victoria Mix Higginson
UNICEF Canada
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Why Attend
Only tested and proven strategies—from frontline fundraisers.
You don’t need a consultant to tell you that monthly giving is important—or that you should be thinking about legacy giving. What you need is real, tested and proven strategies from frontline fundraisers that are working today.
A community of your peers
We’re aiming to build Canada’s premiere fundraising conference that brings the country’s most ambitious nonprofits together, for good. You’ll get to workshop ideas with other fundraisers and, if you’re up to it, we’ve got optional events to build community.
Solution-Based Experiential Learning
People on stage talking at you for hours? We’re not that kind of conference. The Build Good Summit is about collaboration and hands-on learning so you leave with solutions to your most pressing fundraising problems.
It’s designed for anyone in your nonprofit who regularly communicates with donors…
- 🎁 Annual Giving
- 🧑💻 Mid-Level
- 💬 Communications & Marketing
- 🌐 Online Fundraising & Social Media
- 👔 CEOs
- 🎬 Executive Directors
- 🧱 Directors of Development
- 🤝 Donor Relations & Stewardship
- 📅 Planned Giving
- ✉️ Direct Response Mail & Email
Venue
Join us in downtown Toronto
Join us in the world’s most diverse city, and in the heart of Canada’s innovation community.
We will gather in downtown Toronto at the MaRS Discovery District, an architecturally inspiring place that connects people and ideas in a variety of exceptional spaces.
As North America’s largest urban innovation hub and a registered charity, MaRS provides direct support for startups, builds communities of innovators and accelerates the adoption of high-impact solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues.
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Earn CFRE Points
The Build Good Summit agenda is being submitted to CFRE International for evaluation.
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BuildGood Summit Ticket
2-day access (May 22-23, 2025)
$600
Want to attend, but need to convince your boss? Don’t worry, we’re in your corner.
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Secure my spotAbout the organizer
BuildGood is a fundraising growth agency. We help nonprofits across Canada and the US build a multi-channel, metrics-based approach to grow revenue from new and current donors.
Using digital and traditional channels, we implement a “fundraising flywheel” to build a pipeline for monthly, mid-level and legacy giving—all while improving donor retention and lifetime value.
Social Evening
Hang Out with Your People in Toronto’s Award-Winning Best Public Space of the Year
Do you find it hard to describe your job to others? Are you the only fundraiser at the dinner table in most situations?
Not at the Build Good Summit. You see, you’ve found your people. You belong here.
So don’t miss your chance to spend an evening hanging out with other fundraisers at Stackt, North America's largest shipping container market. Designed entirely out of shipping containers, the market is an ever-evolving cultural marketplace.