Jean Crawford, Contributing Editor

As President of crawfordconnect, Jean provides recruitment and retention solutions exclusively to the nonprofit community. Her more than 20 years of executive management experience includes senior management positions at a university, hospital foundations and a national charity. At the forefront of fundraising, strategic planning and board governance issues, she also serves as a consultant to local national charitable organizations.

Jean has written and spoken extensively in all areas of the nonprofit sector from management to fundraising, in a leading industry magazine, in a chapter in the Non-profit Handbook 2000 and most recently in the Globe and Mail. She writes a regular column about issues affecting hiring and retention for Canadian FundRaiser, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and has developed a Competency Dictionary for key positions in the nonprofit sector.

Jean is the founder of the Flare Magazine Volunteer Awards, a national award that recognizes outstanding young women volunteers. She serves on the Board of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, the Editorial Advisory Board of Canadian FundRaiser and is a contributing member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. Jean holds the designation of Fellow in the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, the highest accreditation in the philanthropic sector.