Pat Porth, Editor

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Pat Porth has been a journalist since the days of hot type and “stop the presses”, beginning her apprenticeship on the Free Press Weekly Prairie Farmer and the Winnipeg Free Press. She worked for, then edited, Style, the (then) Maclean-Hunter fashion retail trade paper, and served as chief communications person for Eaton’s Central (Ontario) division for a year.

After a period as an organizational guru at Retail Council of Canada, where she developed and administered a wide variety of educational events and other meetings and also retained responsibility for the association’s public relations and marketing efforts, she started her own freelance writing/editing business. Initially specializing in corporate newsletters, often in partnership with Jim Hilborn, she began writing for Canadian FundRaiser about five years ago, and assumed the editor’s role in August, 2001.

The relationship with CF has pulled Pat into the nonprofit sector; she is currently chair of the York Region Relay For Life for the Canadian Cancer Society and serves on the board of the Literacy Council of York Simcoe, as well as participating in such one-off activities as handling registration for the MS Walk in April.