General Meeting : Granny Stories
Come and join us to meet and mingle with our members and to hear an acclaimed storyteller Norma Cameron enchant and entertain us with a new story.
Norma, originally from Scotland, has over 25 years of experience in fundraising, marketing and communications, training and performance storytelling.
As a former journalist, she switched careers to work for charities in fundraising and communications roles before Norma, originally from Scotland, has over 25 years of experience in fundraising, marketing and communications, training and performance storytelling.
As a former journalist, she switched careers to work for charities in fundraising and communications roles before founding The Narrative Company in 2006 to focus being a consultant and trainer assisting organizations to tap into the power of story. Her clients include non-profit organizations in healthcare, education, public broadcasting, arts & culture and social services as well as private corporations and government departments.
Norma has held senior fundraising positions at universities and charities across Canada and successfully secured multi-million dollar major and legacy gifts. She obtained her Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) designation in 2004, served as a CFRE exam writer and has sat on their International Advisory Council. In 2007 she started teaching the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP) 5-day Original Gift Planning course and in 2011, created and taught their 3-day CAGP Bootcamp: Strategic Gift Planning for Major Gift Professionals’ course.
She has served as a director on the Victoria TELUS Community Board, director on the national CAGP board and president of the national Storytellers of Canada-Conteurs du Canada. She is currently a member of the CFRE International Job Analysis Task Force (an international research project that determines the CFRE exam content). She currently sits on the Mid-Island Storytellers board and is a volunteer on the sound crew with ECHO Players in Qualicum.
Norma has delivered workshops and keynote presentations at national and international conferences in the USA, the UK and across Canada. And, as a professional storyteller, she has performed in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and across North America. In 2009 Norma was chosen to represent Canada at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival in Edinburgh and in 2017 was invited to perform her one- woman play, Coalmines, Council Houses and Corsets at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Norma’s TedxTalk on storytelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w9lom1NNH0