Essays and Reviews

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Essays and Reviews

February 7, 2020: CSP Book Blog

From Bleak House to Manhattan Society

January 22, 2020: CSP Book Blog

How far up the river do you really want to go?

January 21, 2020: CSP Book Blog

Please heed the call

January 14, 2020: CSP Book Blog

On the Block for 2020: The Truth

December 20, 2019: CSP Book Blog

Your CSP Book Blog holiday book list

December 10, 2019: AFP Daily

The 2020 Vision

November 20, 2019: AFP Daily

Connecting the Dots on Sexual Misconduct in the Philanthropic Sector: Part Two – The Response

November 6, 2019: CSP Book Blog

A tale of how the oil and gas industry took its seat at the head table of democracy

October 31, 2019: AFP Daily

Connecting the Dots on Sexual Misconduct in the Philanthropic Sector

September 26, 2019: AFP Daily

Diversity, Inclusion and the Foundation Diversity Fellowship Impact Report

October 4, 2019: CSP Book Blog

Indigenous Non-Fiction: We Have a History

July 4, 2019: Review for CSP Book Blog

Dynamics affecting the charity sector: Are we there yet?

June 5, 2019: Review for CSP Book Blog

Trains of Thought: Emerging Thinking on the Role of Philanthropy

March 7, 2019: Essay for Your Working Girl

Is is that everything SNC-Lavelin touches dies?

October 16, 2018, Submission to the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector

Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector Submission – Gail PIcco

October 10, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

How the CRA is Unleashing the Power of Big Money into the Charity Sector as it Plows Ahead on Deregulation

September 28, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

Violence Against Women: A Charity Case?

September 21, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

Your 12-Step Guide to Addressing Charity Challenges

September 11, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

The Role of Ultra-Wealthy Charities in the Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor

September 4, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

The 5 Myths of Charities and Political Activities

August 22, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

How an Ontario Superior Court Decision Has Remade the Charity Sector, Failed Vulnerable Canadians and Why Some People Are Cheering?

June 14, 2018: For The Osborne Group

Remembering Tony Schwartz: The Communication Genius of Manhattan

June 7, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

Child Development Charities Urge U.S. Administration to Halt Child Separation at the Southern Border (Or Not)

April 26, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

Charities’ fading moral high ground

March 8, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

Ninety Thousand Words To Go

February 15, 2018: Blog for The Osborne Group

Five Things To Do If Allegations of Sexual Misconduct Occur In Your Charity

February 12, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

Will Charities Face a Day of Reckoning?

February 8, 2018: Essay for Your Working Girl

Trying to Live Life on Yellow Alert

October 2, 2017: Essay for Your Working Girl

It’s Hard To Feel Sorry For A Neighbour Who Keeps Setting His Own House On Fire

July 9, 2017: Global Cap in Hand Facebook Series, Episode 2

The Wolf at the Door

June 14, 2017: Essay for Your Working Girl

The Have and Have-not World of Charity

May 28, 2017: Global Cap in Hand Facebook Series, Episode 1

Charity Talk: How can you compete with changing the skyline?

April 13, 2017: Column written for Hilborn Charity eNews

Op Ed: Ways in which the CFRE accreditation lets down fundraisers, charities and donors

March 25, 2017: Essay for Your Working Girl

And Away We Go: F1 on the Grid for New Season

March 15, 2017: Column written for Hilborn Charity eNews

How self-styled charity evaluators have laid waste to productive critique of the charitable sector

March 12, 2017: Essay for Your Working Girl

Why AFP needs to be kicked to the curb (and pronto)

March 3, 2017: Blog for The Osborne Group

Putting Charitable Brand Value to Work

March 2, 2017: Column written for Hilborn Charity eNews

Independence lost? The struggle to make fundraising donor-centred is morphing into fundraising that is donor-directed

February 6, 2017: Essay for Your Working Girl

Charity mergers and “wealthy big-name donors”

January 31, 2017: Column written for Hilborn Charity eNews featured in Nonprofit Quarterly

10 Reasons Why the 15% Charity Overhead Myth Prevents Social Change

January 11, 2017: Blog for The Osborne Group

Fired Up and Ready to Go! 

January 9, 2017: Media Release from The Osborne Group

Gail Picco Brings Fundraising and Advocacy Skills to The Osborne Group

January 4, 2017: Essay for Your Working Girl

Pink Daffodils or Yellow Ribbons? Questions around the merger of Canadian Cancer Society and Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation