This position is appointed by the President and the Fundraising Chair acts as a non-voting member of the BC Branch Executive.
The Chair will:
- Assume responsibility of the “Terms of Reference”
- Review the recommendations from the previous year’s Chair
- Sit as a member on the BC Branch Executive Council
- Attend the Branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) and all corresponding meetings to which this position sits
- Provide the Executive Committee, Finance Committee and Programs Committee with progress reports at each of their respective meetings (such as monies received, and monies promised)
- Liaise with Sponsor Representatives, Awards Chair, Communications Officer, Programs Chair and Treasurer
- Assist the Incoming Chair, with respect to responsibilities, when the term of office is completed
- Participate in succession planning and recruitment for the Fundraising committee
- As outgoing Chair, thank sponsors for their support and notify them of the new Incoming Chair
Duties:
- Maintain levels of sponsorship and terms of sponsorship (see Appendix 1)
- Maintain general sponsorship letter
- Three events: STU (in-person), CS (virtual), AGM (in-person)
- Booths at STU + AGM
- Trivia questions at both and two $50 gift cards for the draw
- Registration on Eventbrite for tickets
- *See email / letter templates (help from committee)
- Solicit funds from sponsors and keep them informed of events throughout the year
- Maintain fundraising database
- Distribute copy of fundraising database to Programs Chair and President quarterly with Finance meetings
- Send thank you correspondence upon receipt of sponsorship for both Branch as well as Awards monies received
- Liaise with Awards Chair to determine how best to negotiate with Award Sponsors
- Forward cheques received to Treasurer
- Liaise with Programs Chair to update event sponsorship recognition
- Liaise with Communications Officer to update website sponsorship recognition
- Submit a Fundraising Update for the quarterly Branch Newsletter
- Maintain sponsorship letter for AGM booths
- Liaise with Programs Chair to arrange sponsor/sponsor booths
- Liaise with executive council regarding satellite symposium topics: topics to be finalized ideally between July and September of each year
- Responsible for organizing quarterly meetings with fundraising committee members. Additional meetings may be called as needed by the chairperson pending sponsorship considerations that may arise throughout the year – each meeting allotted $30
Fundraising Committee Members
As of October 2020, the fundraising committee was created to optimize ongoing solicitation of funds throughout the year and to provide support for the fundraising chairperson during CE events.
Committee member(s) will:
- Be appointed via volunteer basis
- Must be CSHP member
- Consist of maximum of 3 members, excluding Fundraising Chairperson
Duties:
- Support fundraising chairperson to solicit funds and maintain active sponsorship from sponsors throughout the year
- Attend all committee meetings pertaining to planning for all CSHP BC Branch CE events
- Attend all CSHP BC Branch CE events
Appendix I: Sponsorship
Levels of Sponsorship (refer to: https://www.cshp.ca/sponsorship-0)
a. Major Benefactor ($5,000 or more)
- Host 1 satellite symposium event (topic, title, speaker to be approved by CSHP)
- Recognition as a sponsor at all CE events, including one complimentary sponsor display booth at the AGM and at Spring Therapeutic Update
- At each of the three CE events, receive either 1 complimentary in-person registration, or 2 complimentary live-stream registration. In-person registration is subject to event being hosted live. Note: this level of sponsorship may not be shared between sponsors (for example two sponsors may not donate together to achieve higher sponsorship level)
- Copy of each of the quarterly Branch newsletters
- Display company’s corporate logo on CSHP BC Branch website for the year, with a direct link to their corporate website
b. Benefactors ($4,000 – $4,999)
- Recognition as a sponsor at all CE events, including one complimentary sponsor display booth at the AGM and at Spring Therapeutic Update
- At each of the three CE events, receive either 1 complimentary in-person registration, or 2 complimentary live-stream registration. In-person registration is subject to event being hosted live. Note: this level of sponsorship may not be shared between sponsors (for example two sponsors may not donate together to achieve higher sponsorship level)
- Copy of each of the quarterly Branch newsletters, name displayed on website
- Display company’s corporate logo on the CSHP BC Branch website
c. Patrons ($3,000 – $3,999)
- Recognition as a sponsor at all CE events, including complimentary sponsor display booth at Spring Therapeutic Update
- Receive either 1 complimentary in-person registration, or 2 complimentary live-stream registration to the Annual General Meeting. In-person registration is subject to event being hosted live.
- Copy of each of the quarterly Branch newsletters, name displayed on website
- Display company’s corporate logo on the CSHP BC Branch website
d. Sponsors ($2,500 – $2,999)
- Receive either 1 complimentary in-person registration, or 2 complimentary live-stream registration to the Spring Therapeutic Update. In-person registration is subject to event being hosted live.
- Copy of each of the quarterly Branch newsletters
- Display company’s corporate logo on the CSHP BC Branch website
e. Supporters ($2,000 – $2,499)
Recognition as a sponsor at all CE events
Display company’s corporate logo on the CSHP BC Branch website
Copy of each of the quarterly Branch newsletters
Cost for a single booth at any in-person event is $4,000
Direction of Sponsorship Contributions
a. Sponsors may direct their sponsorship contributions towards a specific CE event.
b. If not specified, CSHP will have the sole discretion on how sponsorship contributions are directed
Event registration fee for company representatives
All events: any additional company representatives attending CSHP-BC events beyond the complimentary registration included in their package must purchase a registration at the current non-member rate
Sponsor display booths
For Spring Therapeutic Update
- All Major Benefactors, Benefactors, and Patrons will receive a complimentary sponsor display booth (refer to 1.a.ii., 1.b.i., and 1.c.i.)
- For all live events, any sponsor may purchase additional sponsor display booths at the cost of $1000
For AGM
- All Major Benefactors, and Benefactors will receive a complimentary sponsor display booth at AGM (refer to 1.a.ii, and 1.b.i.)
- Additional sponsor display booths may be purchased at the cost of $2500
If display space cannot be accommodated, the sponsor will be contacted to either defer the contribution for a different CE event or to be used for general sponsorship.
Solicitation of funds/sponsors
- The fundraising committee is responsible for solicitation of funds
- The fundraising chair will provide and forward a contact list of company representatives’ most current addresses. Updates will be forwarded by the fundraising chairperson to programs chair as needed.
- Sponsorship cheques are sent to the Treasurer for deposit
- A list of corporate sponsors is prepared for each event
- An accurate financial statement of fundraising income is maintained by the Treasurer
- The fundraising chair will provide a list of company representatives attending CSHP-BC events to programs chair no later than 3 days after the early bird deadline of each event
CSHP B.C. Chapter Representatives’ Responsibilities
As of June 2014, the fundraising chair will be responsible for fundraising activities of all B.C. Chapters. This effort to centralize fundraising efforts will require the chair to establish points of contact with all chapter representatives
- All B.C. Chapter representatives will notify the fundraising chair of the name and contact of potential sponsors with sponsorship interests. The fundraising chair will be responsible to contact potential leads in an effort to consolidate collaboration and to support B.C. Chapters
Updated and Approved April 8, 2025