Partnering with charities who are ready to grow.
30 + years of proven leadership helping charities grow donor support and create sustainable fundraising strategies.
About Bayford House Advisory
Mike House, MBA ICD.D
Mike House has been a professional fundraiser for over 30 years, with experience in healthcare, education, social services and arts & culture sectors. Most recently, Mike served as President and CEO of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, leading a team that generated over $45M a year, over $300M and 114,000 supporters. During his 11 years, Mike was also successful in developing integrated advocacy campaigns to effectively lobby provincial governments for capital dollar investments.
Mike's non-profit leadership expertise includes these areas: annual giving, sponsorships, third party fundraising, events, major gifts, planned gifts, online giving, lotteries and gaming, door to door, and national partnerships.
Mike was recognized internationally by Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals as the Network Person of the year in 2019 among 170 Children’s hospitals in North America. In 2022, Mike was recognized by YPO, a global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives, as the Global Impact Award Honoree representing Canada, and he recently received the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022.
Our mission
Our mission is to provide expert advice to charitable leaders and organizations to make meaningful and significant change through philanthropy in their communities.
Our Services
We offer a wide range of customized services to help CEOs, Executive Directors, non-profit boards and organizational leaders that are looking to generate more donor support and grow their fundraising infrastructure in a sustainable way.
In addition, we provide expertise on the broader management of non-profits. This customized approach could include such topics as building an advocacy strategy to lobby government support, establishing more equitable compensation models, or advancing your data capture and integration.
let's get to work together
We start by defining the challenges that our clients are facing; then together we map out an approach that outlines timelines and expected outcomes.
We are transparent, results-driven, and designed to have a clear line of sight to cost and solutions.