John Webster Hochstadt, Contributing Editor, Western Canada

John survived to the age of majority in New York City and subsequently worked in neuropsychology research, low-temperature physics, psychiatric social work, commercial fishing, alternative energy, and beekeeping. With a Master of Public Administration degree from Queen’s University he worked on a Metro Toronto United Way campaign, then joined the University of Toronto as Director of Planned Gifts & Bequests, and in 1994 moved to Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation.

A founding Director of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, John chaired the inaugural CAGP conference and served as their first National Chair, while maintaining a consulting practice in program design and evaluation. He began publishing both fiction and non-fiction in 1980, most recently in Canadian FundRaiser, Descant, the Globe and Mail, Alberta Outdoorsman, and Alternatives Journal. In June 2002 he became Contributing Editor to Canadian FundRaiser, based in Twin Butte Alberta and covering western Canada.