The Foundation of Greater Montréal has put together a diverse, talented and passionate team to manage its daily operations in the service of the community.
Brigitte Boucher
Philanthropic Development, Marketing and Communications
Provides strategic counsel, planning and team management. Supports the growth and retention of FGM’s community of fund creators. Coordinates special projects. Ensures that FGM maintains its profile as a leader in the philanthropic sector.
Yacine Bouzid
Philanthropic Development
Collaborates in the planning, development and implementation of strategies relating to philanthropic development and fund creation. Establishes and manages a portfolio of fund creators, and promotes both philanthropy and FGM to them. Is responsible for implementing a program of recognition and engagement for donors and fund creators.
Mélanie Cyr
Administration
Provides administrative and logistical support to the entire FGM team and some committees, greets visitors, manages meeting room bookings as well as material procurement.
Monica de la Cruz
Accounting
Provides all necessary assistance for accounting and finance operations; ensures that data management systems for accounting and finance function and correlate properly with information systems, participates in the assessment and implementation of the service’s accounting, finance and administrative processes.
Simon Delorme, réd. a.
Communications and Public Relations
Responsible for managing the Foundation’s media relations and digital communications outlets such as the website, newsletters and social media. Handles the majority of FGM’s written content like presentations, speeches and messages from the President and CEO, selected publications and other documents and correspondence.
Marie-Andrée Farmer
Operations, Strategy and Impact
Responsible for strategic initiatives and collaborations with a view to increase the Foundation’s reach and impact in the community. Oversees the management of granting programs, philanthropic practices and the deployment of FGM’s JEDI Action Plan (justice, equity, diversity and inclusion) as well as its Roadmap towards Reconciliation with the First Peoples. Coordinates different operational aspects of the Foundation’s work and supports the management of human resources.
Linh Ho
Administration and Finance
Responsible for the operational management of financial, material, and human resources.
Acts as a resource person for all financial and administrative matters.
Karimé Issa
Philanthropic Development
Main contact for organizations that are creating funds as part of public or private matching programs. Supports fund creation through those programs, abiding by their rules and regulations and pursuing the best investment strategies for each organization. Supports and informs them through changes within the programs or opportunities for non-program fund creation. Supports and implements attraction and retention strategies for the stewardship of fund creators.
Vira Kovalova
Strategic Initiatives and Community Partnerships
Actively contributes to the development and management of FGM’s granting programs and to the upholding of its relations with social and environmental actors in the community. Through her knowledge and her expertise, supports and contributes to the ongoing development of the Foundation’s approaches towards JEDI (justice, equity, diversity and inclusion) and reconciliation.
Me Yolanda Macias Schaffner
Legal Services, Corporate Secretariat and Privacy
Is responsible for FGM’s legal affairs (analysis, interpretation, drafting or review of various contracts, reports, by-laws, policies and legal documents) and for Corporate Secretary duties (organizing meetings of the Board and its committees, drafting minutes of meetings, and ensuring followup on matters decided at Board meetings).
Samuel Sharetzer Michel
Accounting
Provides all necessary assistance for accounting and finance operations; ensures that data management systems for accounting and finance function and correlate properly with information systems, participates in the assessment and implementation of the service’s accounting, finance and administrative processes.
Claire Nyirasangwa
Accounting
Tasked with processing deposit and withdrawal transactions in philanthropic funds, and managing various accounting operations related to data entry and financial transactions according to established procedures and timetables.
Sarah Ouagueni
Community Engagement
Collaborates with the philanthropic development team in matters relating to organizations that receive funding; responds to general requests conveyed to the team by community organizations; follows through on requests for payment of grants.
Luc Rabouin
Principal spokesperson for the Foundation, leads its team and operations. In collaboration with the Board of Directors, sets its global strategies.
