Our Publishing Team - Canadian Fundraiser

	Our publisher, Jim Hilborn, produced his first newsletter, a weekly report on the Canadian chemical industry, in 1969, and just can’t seem to get ‘newslettering’ out of his system. He launched Canadian FundRaiser almost 20 years ago, and swears that he’s going to keep at this one until it’s ‘perfect’. So it appears that we’re stuck with him for the moment.
	Pat Porth, who has been editor of Canadian FundRaiser for almost ten years, brings an extensive background in communications to the challenge of covering such a disparate sector of activity. She too, has edited, designed and produced newsletters and magazines on a wide range of topics, and like Jim, finds the nonprofit sector one of the most personally satisfying of them all.
	Our Western Editor, John Webster Hochstadt, is the only member of our team who actually earned his living at one point as a professional fundraiser. The rest of us, however, do not hold his stint as Director of Planned Gifts & Bequests at the University of Toronto against him, nor the fact that he was one of the founding board members (and second chair) of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners. John divides his time between his homestead in the foothills of Waterton Lakes Park in southwestern Alberta, fishing trips to Alaska, bird-banding and the more mundane (we reluctantly admit) task of keeping an alert pair of Western Canadian eyes on the fundraising scene for us.
	Slightly more removed from the hustle and bustle of our twice-monthly deadlines, Allan Arlett, in his role as Chairman of the Canadian FundRaiser Editorial Advisory Board, keeps a weather eye on the sector for us, in which his daily work as a fundraising consultant with his firm The Arlett van Rotterdam Partnership is invaluable. One of the first people Jim Hilborn spoke to when he launched Canadian FundRaiser, Allan, who was at the time the founding president of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, brings a uniquely invaluable perspective to the ongoing development of the Canadian FundRaiser Nonprofit Sector Management Information Service.
	Definitely by far the most organized of this crew is Mary Singleton, our Client Services Manager, who works closely with our Supporting Sponsors and manages the Canadian FundRaiser Key-to-the-Sector Workshop Series.
	As Assistant Publisher of The Hilborn Group Leanne Hitchcock’s assignment is to draw on her extensive communications background to ensure that all of our newsletters get out on time, which involves a thousand weekly tasks that fall off the Publisher�s desk, following up with our subscribers, and playing the key role in the launch of new ventures such as our newest division, Civil Sector Press.
Backing up this core group is a wide-ranging network of sector specialists, our Contributing Editors, who keep us up to speed on everything from faith fundraising and donor research to sponsorship, nonprofit law and database management software.