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About Us Modern Donor focuses on important trends and developments in philanthropy, fund development and nonprofit management. Our perspective is global, and our objective is to support senior managers in nonprofit organizations world-wide perceive and understand significant societal shifts and directions that will influence their medium- and long-term success and survival. Our editor, New York-based author and consultant Judith Nichols, has long been widely recognized as one of the foremost trend analysts working in the nonprofit sector. A widely sought-after keynote speaker and trainer, Judith is known and respected for her ability not only to identify and understand underlying demographic and psychographic shifts but also to develop proactive responses and solutions for voluntary sector organizations across the USA, Canada, Australia, South America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Judith’s latest book is Pinpointing Affluence in the 21st Century. She is the author of Transforming Fundraising, Lessons from Abroad: Fresh Ideas from Fund-Raising Experts in the United Kingdom, Global Demographics: Fund Raising for a New World, and Growing from Good to Great: Positioning Your Fund Raising Efforts for BIG Gains. Her books are part of the Association of Fundraising Professional’s Heritage Collection. She was a regular columnist for Contributions Magazine for eight years and currently serves on the International Editorial Board for the Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. As the Editor of Modern Donor, Judith draws on more than thirty years of hands-on fund raising and marketing experience, working with higher education as well as with arts and cultural, health-related, human benefit and social service, membership, and youth organizations. An active member and certified fund raiser (CFRE) of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, she has served on both the Michigan and Oregon boards. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in Education. Our publisher Jim Hilborn is based in Toronto, Canada, where he has been active in the provision of a wide range of information services for the voluntary sector for almost twenty years. The co-founder of CharityVillage, one of the world’s most successful and best-known voluntary sector web sites, he is also the publisher of Canadian FundRaiser, one of North America’s first fully-formatted and trackable e-letters serving the sector. The ‘Fundraiser’, as it has come to be known, also offers its readers dozens of practical workshops each year, both in person and online, on a wide range of topics important to nonprofit managers. Jim has been named a “Friend” of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, the highest honour the CAGP awards its members. A past instructor in newsletter publishing at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Jim is considered one of the leading newsletter publishing experts in North America. Quoted in articles in the Financial Post, Canadian Business and Masthead magazines, and the author of articles on accountability in the nonprofit sector in Hospital Administration and Association Business magazines, he is the only Honourary Life Member of the Canadian Chapter of the Newsletter Publishers Association (NPA), and has won a variety of editorial awards, including the Kenneth R. Wilson Award for Business Journalism. Judith and Jim are eager to hear from the readers of Modern Donor, and solicit your suggestions, questions and comments. Judith may be contacted by telephone at (503) 349-3212, by email at judnich@aol.com, and by regular mail at 125 Court Street, Suite 8IS, Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA. To contact Jim, email to info@hilborn.com, call (416) 345-9403, or mail to Box 86, Station C, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3M7, Canada.