Welcome Message From the Chair

Health Care in Bloom…. Nurturing your Knowledge!

Join us for what promises to be another incredible AHP Canada Conference in Association with HCPRA, complete with education, special events and most of all, the best in networking opportunities.

Ottawa, Canada, provides the colourful backdrop for all healthcare fundraising and communications professionals to come together at a special time of year during the Canadian Tulip Festival. Not only nurturing our senses, being in the midst of a highly charged political environment, both provincially and federally, we all need an opportunity to nurture our knowledge about our industry. In addition, we’ll refresh some of our skills and come together to talk about the political issues so common to each of us, despite our distances from coast to coast to coast.

We are Canadian! The 2005 Conference has attracted some very special Canadians as our guests. Opening the conference will be Stephen Lewis, Canada’s foremost speaker on Global Health Care Issues and Challenges. CTV’s Canada AM personality Jeff Hutcheson will host our Showcase & Hygeia Awards Banquet and Ceremonies. To wrap up the conference, two of Canada’s leading philanthropists will speak to us personally about their philanthropic experience – Margaret and Charles Juravinski.

You want to be there – in Ottawa – May 15 – 17th, or you will miss another great Canadian AHP and HCPRA Conference!

Look forward to seeing you in Ottawa!

Nancy Hewat, FAHP Conference Chair

Special Thanks to our Conference Sponsors!