Executive Director-Fiddlesticks Neighborhood Association
Kim Fowlers career and volunteer work have always focused on children, youth, and the community.
Kim has received four awards for her work in the community – In 2018, she was presented with the Senate of Canada 150+ Commemorative Medal. In 2023, she was awarded the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing more than 15 years of significant contributions she has made to her community. In 2024 was the recipient of the YWCA Women of Distinction Award. most recently (2025) was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal for her contributions to her country.
Her educational background spans post secondary education in Community Development, Social Service Work, Management in the Not for Profit Sector and Volunteer Management.
Her career has spanned almost four decades. Kim has worked as a youth counsellor with the Robert Thompson Youth and Family Center - a therapeutic treatment centre for youth; as a trainer for Education Assistants with the Peel Catholic School Board, as well as spent 13 years as a Direct Care Worker with Family & Children’s Services of Waterloo Region. For the last 22 years, Kim has held the position of Executive Director of the Fiddlesticks Community Centre where her work focuses on community development, early years, and her passion, youth leadership development. Kim has also volunteered over six thousand hours with various charities and not for profit organizations through her volunteer career. Kim is anywhere that support to her neighbourhood and youth is needed.
As a breast cancer survivor Kim was approached, in 2022 to sit on a hospital advisory committee. She accepted a volunteer role with the Cambridge Memorial Hospital Quality and Operations Committee. Her role on this committee is to represent and be a patient advocate with the hospitals Medical Day Care cancer clinic. She reviews policy as a part of her role.
As a volunteer, Kim is a uniformed Scouter, community representative with two elementary schools in her neighbourhood, is the Vice Chair of the Cambridge Gaming Association, and a grant review committee member with the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.