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Harvey is recognized as one of North America’s leading fundraising experts. He is the author of five acclaimed books, and is the co-author of the #1 international best-seller The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enriches Us All. The Power of Giving won the Nautilus Gold Award for books on social change and the book was also one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year. It reached number one in both the US and Canada, and has been translated into nine languages. All royalties have been donated to charities. Harvey is considered a world leader on monthly giving. He wrote Hidden Gold, the first book on this highly lucrative area which each year raises billions of dollars for non-profits. His second book was The Tiny Guide: Essentials of Monthly Committed Giving. His most recent publication was 2020’s How to Create Lifelong Donors Through Monthly Giving. His best-selling fundraising book, The 11 Questions Every Donor Asks is used as a major gift training manual in fundraising departments throughout the US and Canada from the United Way to the San Diego Zoo. The second revised edition was published in 2015. Harvey is a highly rated trainer and has taught fundraising to thousands of non-profit staff. Sample topics have included: Mid-level Giving, Direct Mail, On-line and Offline Integration, Mediation on Money, Creativity and the Future of Communications. He is a frequent speaker at conferences including: the AFP International (where he has spoken 25 times), AFP Congress, IFC (including teaching master classes), AAFRE, AFP chapters, CCAE, CASE, CAGP, National Storytelling Conference and many more. His keynotes include the YMCA International NAYDO Conference and national fundraising conferences in Australia and Norway. He is an award-winning copywriter, and has written for many publications including: Grassroots Fundraising Journal, and Contributions as well as The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and many others. Harvey’s popular seminar How Today’s Rich Give was produced as a CD by Jossey-Bass. Harvey has been profiled in publications such as Success Magazine, The National Observer, and the Vancouver Sun. And he has been a frequent interviewee of many media outlets, including national radio in Canada, Australia and the USA. He has produced a wide variety of award-winning documentary films that have been aired on the BBC, CBC, ABC, PBS and many other networks around the world. They include: Side-By-Side: Women Against AIDS in Zimbabwe; The Black Sea in Crisis, and biographies of David Suzuki and William Shatner. He led the ABC Veterans third-party campaign in the 2015 Canadian Election to defeat Stephen Harper, for which he won two awards from Campaigns and Elections at their international conference, for Best Overall Web campaign and Best Web Video. And in 2018 he released a 5-part webinar series on Activism and Fundraising. He has developed strategy and has been an activist on causes ranging from: anti-apartheid work, anti-gambling expansion, ending violence against women to anti-tobacco activism and environmental campaigns among many, many others. Before founding Harvey McKinnon Associates in 1989, Harvey spent ten years with Oxfam Canada. His company raises money for dozens of non-profits in Canada and the USA. Harvey has served on many Boards including the Advisory Board of the Brainerd Foundation (US), Greenpeace Canada, Oxfam Canada, the AFP Vancouver Chapter, Resource Alliance North America, and the Vancouver International Comedy Festival. He currently is on the boards for the National Observer and the Vancouver International Writers Festival.
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