Sherri Freedman
Special Advisor to the President & CEO
The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
Sherri started her career at United Way of Greater Toronto where she honed her fundraising, strategic planning and management skills and forged deep, enduring relationships with donors, volunteers and colleagues that have lasted over three decades.
When Sherri joined the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation in 2001, she discovered her passion for healthcare philanthropy. Working closely with hospital staff, administrators and colleagues, Sherri demonstrated the power of strategic, collaborative fundraising and the joy of celebrating collective success. Sherri carried these tenets with her to The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation at UHN where she spent close to fourteen years. After a two-year stint at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto where Sherri helped lead a fundraising initiative to create a new Holocaust Education Centre, she is once again at The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation as Special Advisor to the President & CEO. Sherri is universally respected and admired across UHN for her ability to inspire passion and confidence in everyone she works with, whether they are donors, volunteers, Cancer Centre partners or Foundation colleagues.
In addition to helping raise hundreds of millions of dollars, Sherri has always taken the time throughout her career, to encourage, advise and mentor other fundraisers, reminding people to be authentic and donor-centred, to focus on mission and to appreciate the privilege of doing meaningful work in the non-profit sector.
Sherri is a certified yoga instructor and has used her love of yoga to help raise funds as well. In her free time, she enjoys special times with her husband, adult children, her family, and her many friends.
Past Recipients:
2023: Angie Peters, President & CEO, Yonge Street Mission
2022: Jennifer Bernard, CFRE, President & CEO, Women’s College Hospital Foundation
2021: Cindy Yelle, CEO, Canadian Olympic Foundation
2019: Blake Goldring, Executive Chairman, AGF Management Ltd.
2018 Spring: Dr. Ann Cavoukian
2017 Fall: Darrell Gregersen, President & CEO CAMH Foundation
2017 Spring: Mark Wafer, Tim Hortons franchise owner, and advocate for individuals with disabilities
2016 Fall: Betsy McGregor
2016 Spring: Mark Rodgers, CEO, Habitat for Humanity Canada
2015 Fall: Jim Clemmer
2015 Spring: Carla Kisko
2014 Fall: Ophira Ginsburg
2014 Spring: Carolyn MacKenzie
2013 Fall 2: Dave Perry & Rocco Rossi
2013 Spring: Yvette Nechvatal-Drew
2012 Fall: David Bronskill
2012 Spring: Gery Rockstein
2011 Fall: Nancy Graham
2011 Spring: Rona Maynard
2010 Fall: Christine Magee
2010 Spring: Christine Bentley
2009 Fall: Joe Millage
2009 Spring: Dr. Rick Tobias
2008 Fall: Audrey M. Loeb
2008 Spring: Mary Thornton
2007 Fall: Hon. James K. Bartleman
2006 Fall: Brenda Herchmer
2006 Spring: Dr. Gordon L. Flett
2005 Fall: Ed Holder
2005 Spring: Karen Lieberman
2004 Fall: Richard Rohmer, Major-General (ret.)
2004 Spring: Rukhsana Khan
2003 Fall: Lewis McKenzie, Major-General (ret.)
Region VI: Warren Evans
2003 Spring: Laurie Williamson
2002 Fall: Christine Dernederlanden
2002 Spring: Ken Shaw
2001 Fall: Helen Connell
2001 Spring: Robin Sharma
2000 Fall: Bill Carroll
2000 Spring: Sue Johanson
1999 Fall: Todd Brooker
1999 Spring: Erin Davis
1998 Fall: Christopher J. Randall
1998 Spring: Michael “Pinball” Clemens
1997 Joan Homer
1996 Fall: Judy Gibson
1996 Spring: Frank C. Buckley
1995 Peter Urs Bender
1994 Roberta Bondar
1993 Ronald McDonald House Daily Bread Foodbank
1991 Her Worship the Mayor Hazel McCallion
1990 Telephone Pioneers of America, Northern Telecom Canada
1989 The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander
1988 Bill Simpkins
1987 Bob Proctor
1985 W. Bill Moody
1984 George B. Weber
1983 D. K. (Don) McIvor
1980 Don Herron
1979 Paul Victor Godfrey
1977 Laura Sabia
1976 Lynne Gordon
1975 Clarence F. Meyers
1974 J. Arthur Robertson
