"I’ve worked with HMA several times throughout my career as a fundraiser and have always been very impressed by their passion, professionalism and skill. My experience working with them at TVO has only reinforced this impression. Shortly before I started work at TVO, HMA deployed two staff members that worked on site for a period time. This demonstrated enormous commitment and literally turned the tide for our fundraising program. I’ve truly appreciated HMA’s flexibility and the fact that they’ll get the job done regardless of barriers. Thanks to everyone at HMA for all of your amazing work!."

Kellie Ellis
Manager, Annual Giving & Direct Response
Philanthropy & Sponsorship
TVO

"I call the folks we work with at Harvey McKinnon Associates the “Dream Team” because their breadth and depth of knowledge in fundraising is phenomenal. We, at Sea Shepherd, have benefitted greatly from their strategic planning, detailed analysis of our mailing plan, and consulting in multi-channel fundraising."

Carla Robinson
Development Director
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

"The Oakville Hospital Foundation’s partnership with Harvey McKinnon & Associates has had an immediate impact on our direct response results and has positioned us for continued success. The entire HMA team has demonstrated a commitment to OUR business; it’s as if they’re a member of our Foundation team. You don’t find that very often in a consulting relationship…we’re sure glad we have. "

Mike Bartlett
Director, Community Giving
Oakville Hospital Foundation

"Thanks so much for the great work you are doing for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Direct Response Program for the BC & Yukon Division. I have really appreciated the wonderful balance between Harvey’s creative thinking and Lynne’s business management approach in our strategy sessions. It means there are great ideas being generated, and the job will get done. Perhaps the greatest testimonial to the effectiveness of our working relationship is that things have ticked along very smoothly with no hitches. From a Vice-President’s perspective, that’s important! When our program was audited by an external party, the program was a positive ‘green’ in many areas evaluated, demonstrating a healthy program against others."

Kayla D. Stevenson, CFRE
Vice-President, Revenue Development
Canadian Cancer Society, BC & Yukon Division

"Thanks so much for the great work you did on our recent Legacy mailing. Our President was speaking with one of our donors recently who received the mailing and she was very impressed; she felt that it was warm and well written. As a result, she'll be adding St. Michael's Hospital to her will!"

Meagan Ross
Manager, Annual Giving
St. Michael's Hospital Foundation

"It has been a challenging year, but you all at HMA have been fantastic in helping us weather this storm and I think we’ve made some great strides through adjustments to the plan over the course of the year."

Andra Rice
Development Manager, Direct Response
The Credit Valley Hospital Foundation

"Amnesty International has been partnered with HMA for almost a year. During that time they have been quick to understand our mission and our donors. They have provided leadership on our direct mail program, while remaining attentive to our needs. We have worked together to create cost efficiencies in our program. They do not miss their deadlines and they ensure we don't miss ours. Their copy is generally good and sometimes excellent.

They pay attention what is happening in the world regarding human rights and make good suggestions regarding mail topics and inserts as a result.

In summary, they give us quality time, quality program delivery and quality service."

Lee Seymour
Director, Resource Development
Amnesty International

“Harvey and his outstanding team of professional staff were able to quickly understand our prospective donor's motivations as well as our organizational culture. They quickly and effectively translated this information into an excellent direct-response strategy. We have already added names to our prospect pool and acquired new donors along the way!”

Jon Roth, CAE
Executive Director
California Dental Association Foundation

“Harvey McKinnon Associates are a delight to work with. They practice the Covey principles that they promote — effectiveness, efficiency and creativity. They have dramatically increased the size of our donor base - 700% in Year One. And they have recruited a huge number of monthly donors for us. They deliver what they promise - and more - and they clearly care about our mission. I recommend them highly.”

Tony Barrett, ex-CFO
Marmot Recovery Foundation

“Harvey was instrumental in developing OXFAM's monthly donor program, which now raises more than two million dollars annually. And he continues to provide us with great advice.”

Lee Seymour, Regional Fund Raising Coordinator
OXFAM

“Harvey knows more about monthly donor plans than anyone else in North America.”

Mal Warwick, Author of Raising Money by Mail
and 15 other best-selling fundraising books

“Thank you Harvey for providing UNICEF with such an excellent training package in pledge (monthly giving) fundraising. These two days [of training] are amongst the most valuable I have spent in my time with UNICEF, and the responses from participants show the value this will bring to UNICEF in the short and long term.

What was especially appreciated by participants in the training is that it was practical and full of many proven examples, results and experiences, essential in taking such an important fundraising technique out of the world of only theory and into the realm of being real and achievable.”

Greg Millar, Business Development and Training Officer
UNICEF International

“Harvey was able to show us how readily a monthly giving program could fit into our over-all membership efforts. We are very pleased at the untapped potential for monthly giving he helped us identify in our house file…We became convinced that monthly giving could be a reliable source of long-term income for us.”

Mark R. Collins
Wildlife Conservation Society

"Using HMA for an audit of our monthly giving program was extremely valuable. They are industry experts on sustainer fundraising and they balanced personalized and detailed recommendations with top-level industry perspective. Their suggestions provided a comprehensive report about sustainers that will help with retention, upgrade, growth and a better donor experience. I highly recommend their services to anyone looking to improve their monthly giving program."

Annalise Briggs, Manager, Monthly Giving Program
Mercy Corps

“We asked Harvey McKinnon Associates to take an objective look at our development department so that we could become more effective at fundraising. Not only do we want to do a better job now, we also want to grow our organization significantly over the next three or four years. They have given us tremendous insight into what we can do better and, just as importantly, a very clear, concise – and actionable – roadmap to help us make the changes we need to make.”

Robert Mitchell, Executive Director
Sierra Legal Defence Fund

“Not only are Harvey McKinnon Associates incredibly knowledgeable and professional they're a lot of fun to work with. They work hard to understand the complexities of recovering a species from the brink of extinction to develop concise hard-hitting communication that educates and reaches the hearts of our supporters and potential supporters. We have worked with them since 1998 and because of their excellent management, our direct mail program has grown every year since then, providing the public backbone of support we need to recover Canada's most endangered animal, the Vancouver Island marmot, to a healthy population.”

Viki Wilson, Executive Director
Marmot Recovery Foundation

“I have found the collective experience they bring to the table invaluable. They assisted us in raising our giving sights, keeping us focused and on track. The HMA staff has been a pleasure to work with. Thank you!”

Vashti Persaud, Director Resource Development
VisionTV

"I have participated in Harvey's sessions and they are great – interactive, filled with intelligent commentary, insights from his long experience and vision about where our profession is going and what we need to do to ensure the future. Sign up! You will benefit in many ways."

Kay Sprinkel Grace

“Monthly Giving was an excellent session and I heard a number of comments from other delegates about how much value they had received by attending the session… it was one of the highlights of the conference. The knowledge that delegates take from Harvey's session serves them and their organizations well.”

Joan Paton, Program Chair
2004 Alberta Fundraising Conference

“Your presentation was a real inspiration and it sparked a bunch of new ideas for me. Thanks again.”

Carol Miller, Director of Membership Programs
WWF Canada

“The future health of the growing charitable sector depends on how well we can expand the commitments of current donors and awaken the passions of new ones. Harvey McKinnon's excellent workshop, How Today's Rich Give, reminds us that philanthropy has tremendous opportunity to grow. He even explains how to do it in his inimitable and humorous way.”

Tim Draimin, Executive Director
Tides Canada

“I really liked Harvey's sense of humor, involving style, and fluid ability to integrate questions and answers into his talk.”

Jack Soares
Girl Scouts of the San Francisco Bay Area

“Harvey McKinnon has a wealth of knowledge about donor loyalty. His excitement and belief in the value of monthly giving is contagious! He knows, as do you when you take his seminars, that donors and how they feel about the organization determines our success.”

Veronica Maliszewski, CFRE, Director of Fund Development,
Ontario March of Dimes

“I attend plenty of fundraising workshops but Harvey’s was the best — immediately applicable, relatively easy and will raise more money. Not only am I getting started on monthly giving with my organization —I have already called the ED's for two boards that I serve on and am helping them get going. Also the informal discussion of effective written material was excellent — I have a short list of great points to go over before hitting print. Thanks for making this trip really pay off!”

Dru Schmidt-Perkins, Executive Director
1000 Friends of Maryland

“Wonderful Speaker!”

Russ Olevsky
San Francisco State University

“Never too dry or theoretical. He covered issues that pertain to small and big groups.”

Stephanie Sekich
Western Land Exchange

“The quality of Harvey's material is certainly far, far superior to most of what I see from both America and Canada.”

Jerry Huntsinger, Columnist,
The Non-Profit Times

“Lots of great information on how to keep donors, upgrade them, and convert them to monthly donors.”

Kim Kupberman
Planned Parenthood

“The master of the monthly giving system is Canadian Harvey McKinnon, who has a great videotape to convince you, your leaders, and your boss (if need be) to start a monthly giving program.

McKinnon’s videotape How To Build a Highly Profitable Monthly Donor Program features many compelling arguments for moving frequent donors onto a system of giving every month, ideally through an electronic funds transfer….You'll also get a flavor for McKinnon's amusing and insightful presentation style.”

Joan Flanagan
“Two thumbs up for three videos”
The Grass Roots Fundraising Journal

“How to Build a Highly Profitable Monthly Donor Program is clear and precise. Harvey did a great job of matching it up with the hard copy materials included with the tape.”

Dennis Harper, Director of Marketing
American Lung Association

“Working with the HMA Team feels like a true partnership. They live and die by the results of their clients, and are more invested in client success than anyone I’ve worked with before. It’s a refreshing approach, to what’s becoming a bottom-line focused consulting industry.”

Mike Bartlett
Director, Community Giving
Oakville Hospital Foundation

“The account staff at HMA is knowledgeable, detail oriented and proactive. They make Harvey look like a genius for hiring them.”

Mike Bartlett
Director, Community Giving
Oakville Hospital Foundation

“I appreciate all your wonderful advice & time. I think you are probably the best organization I have had the privilege of working with.”

Sherry Wykes, Development Communications Operator
Operation Eyesight Universal

“Harvey is a 'hard to match DM genius!' His company has a fantastic ability to produce good creative, paired with a gift for analytics and seeing opportunities in the numbers.

They have a willingness to partner and collaborate with clients and to be very flexible in developing strategy and making plans; they have an earnest belief in the value of philanthropy and natural predilection to honour and elevate donors.”

Caroline van Nostrand, former Director, Community & Annual Giving
The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation

“Harvey McKinnon just may be the smartest person at getting people to give money to good causes in North America. He works from his heart. His values are powerful. He inspires people to give.”

Paul Loeb
author of Soul of a Citizen