Editorial team
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Sasha Endoh
Sasha Endoh is the website and technical lead at The Philanthropist Journal.
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Lesley Fraser
Lesley Fraser is the managing editor of The Philanthropist Journal
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Jillian Witt
Jillian Witt is community engagement editor for The Philanthropist Journal.
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Leslie Wright
Leslie Wright is the executive director of the Agora Foundation and editor-in-chief of its publication, The Philanthropist Journal.
Agora Foundation Board of Directors and publisher
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Pedro Barata
Pedro Barata is the president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Canada.
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Raine Liliefeldt
Raine Liliefeldt is a communications professional with more than 18 years of experience in the non-profit sector and is the director of membership engagement at YWCA Canada.
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Allan Northcott
Allan Northcott is president of Max Bell Foundation, which for 25 years has focused on supporting charities engaging in public policy development.
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Sylvia Parris-Drummond
Sylvia Parris-Drummond is CEO of the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute in Halifax.
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Patti Pon
A veteran community and arts champion, Patti Pon is the president and CEO of Calgary Arts Development and the president of the Agora Foundation Board of Directors.
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Susan Rowbottom
Susan Rowbottom has been helping individuals and families establish and manage charitable foundations for more than 30 years.
Editorial advisors
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Monica Allaby
Monica Allaby is a senior communications specialist with MakeWay. She is based in New Brunswick.
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Jodene Baker
Jodene Baker is vice president of research, advocacy, and external relations at Imagine Canada, where she leads national research and policy initiatives focused on strengthening the charitable and non-profit sector.
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Adriana Beemans
Adriana Beemans is director of the Inclusive Local Economies Program at the Metcalf Foundation.
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Thea Belanger
Thea Belanger is the director of philanthropy with Dragonfly Ventures
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Nujma Bond
Nujma Bond is manager of communications for the Royal Canadian Legion.
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Terrance S. Carter
Terrance S. Carter, B.A., LL.B, TEP, is the managing partner of Carters Professional Corporation.
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Dan Clement
Dan Clement is president and CEO of United Way Centraide Canada.
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Anver Emon
Anver M. Emon is a professor of law and history at the Jackman Faculty of Law and the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
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Zahra Esmail
Zahra Esmail is CEO of Vantage Point.
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Danny Glenwright
Danny Glenwright is the president and CEO of Save the Children Canada and a director on the board of the Humanitarian Coalition.
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Anita Khanna
Anita Khanna is vice president of government relations and public policy at United Way Centraide Canada.
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Sara Krynitzki
Sara Krynitzki is associate CEO of Philanthropic Foundations Canada.
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Marcel Lauzière
Marcel Lauzière has led several national organizations: the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Canadian Council on Social Development, and Imagine Canada. He has been a senior public servant in Canada and New Zealand. He was also CEO of the Lawson Foundation.
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Ruth MacKenzie
Ruth MacKenzie is the president and CEO of CAGP, the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, and executive director of the CAGP Foundation.
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Margaret Mason
Margaret Mason, KC, is a retired partner with Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP with close to four decades of experience advising donors, charities and other tax-exempt organizations and their boards.
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Paul Nazareth
Paul Nazareth has worked in Canada’s philanthropic sector for almost 30 years. He writes on philanthropy for a variety of publications and regularly appears on national radio and television to speak about finding meaning in generosity.
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Chantelle Ohrling
Chantelle Ohrling, CFRE, is chair of communications and chair of equity and right relations for the Greater Vancouver Chapter of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners. She contributes to the Black Canadian Fundraisers Collective, volunteers for Hogan’s Alley Society, and is an editorial advisor for The Philanthropist Journal.
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Hilary Pearson
Hilary Pearson is the former president of Philanthropic Foundations Canada. She works as an independent policy consultant and co-chaired the federal Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector from 2019 to 2023.
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Andreae Sennyah
Andreae Sennyah is the Director of Policy with Cardus.
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Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe from St. Peter’s/Little Peguis and is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba.
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James Stauch
James Stauch is a complex-systems strategist with ATCO and a visiting fellow with the Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford. He has worked in (or adjacent to) philanthropy for two and a half decades.
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Vicki Stroich
Vicki Stroich is a Calgary-based facilitator, nonprofit leader, artist, and community builder who serves as engagement director for Alberta Ecotrust, an organization that supports environmental non-profits.
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Cathy Taylor
Cathy Taylor is president an CEO of the Lawson Foundation.
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Musu Taylor-Lewis
Musu Taylor-Lewis is president and CEO of Food for the Hungry Canada (FH Canada).
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Geneviève Vallerand
Geneviève Vallerand is director of communications for Community Foundations of Canada.
Featured contributors
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Sherlyn Assam
Sherlyn Assam is a freelance writer and editor. Her work can be found in Broadview, Future of Good, The Walrus, Xtra, Everything Zoomer, Our Times, Trad Magazine and more.
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Gordon Bowness
Gordon Bowness is a Toronto-based writer, editor, and producer with more than 30 years of journalism and entertainment experience. He is the founding editor of two queer magazines, In Toronto (now In Magazine) and Go Big.
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Toula Drimonis
Toula Drimonis is a Montreal journalist and the author of We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada.
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Tim Harper
Tim Harper is a Toronto-based writer. He is a former Washington correspondent and national affairs columnist with the Toronto Star.
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Angela Long
Angela Long is a freelance writer currently working on a book about rural journalism in Canada.
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Abdul Nakua
Abdul Nakua is an executive with the Muslim Association of Canada. He served on the board of directors for the Ontario Nonprofit Network and was a member of the sector’s Equitable Recovery Collective. He served as a member of the Champions Council for CivicAction’s Mental Health in the Workplace initiative.
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Christina Palassio
Christina Palassio is a non-profit communications professional and freelance writer. When she tweets, she does so at @mcpalassio.
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Hilary Pearson
Hilary Pearson is the former president of Philanthropic Foundations Canada. She works as an independent policy consultant and co-chaired the federal Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector from 2019 to 2023.
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Sharon Riley
Sharon J. Riley is a journalist based in Edmonton. She is the managing editor of The Narwhal, and her writing has also been published by The Walrus, Alberta Views, Harpers, and others.
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Yvonne Rodney
Yvonne Rodney is a Toronto author, career consultant, speaker, and non-profit worker with extensive experience in career development. She is the author of Moving On: A Quick Guide for Non-Profit Workers and Military to Civilian Employment: A Career Practitioner’s Guide.