Starting this month, watch for more books with content edgier than ever from Civil Sector Press. With twelve years and three dozen titles under its belt, this month Hilborn’s book publishing arm is taking a giant step forward with the creation of its new imprint, Gail K. Picco.

Until now CSP has published books in both print and eBook format focussed on the nuts and bolts of fundraising and charity management — we launched in 2007 with the very appropriate Complete Handbook for Planning, Implementing and Sustaining a Successful Charity Golf Tournament — and we’ll keep doing that … more than ever in fact, with five of our regular titles scheduled for spring/summer 2020:

• Adam Aptowitzer will give us the legal basics of charity management in Running A Charity
• Sheree Allison’s Nonprofit Book of Wisdom will distill her years of experience in the trenches
• Michelle Harder will distill her father Ben Harder’s corpus with her own experience in Fundraising for Faith-Based Organizations
• David Love will tell us about fundraising for environmental causes
• Francesco Ambrogetti will review how our passion and support for the causes we love is changing and challenging us to keep up.

The new imprint, however, will be edited by Gail Picco and will take the Hilborn Group deeper into sector issues we first tackled in Gail’s 2017 title Cap in Hand. An energetic and focused reader herself, Gail is committed to quality publishing of titles that seek to advance understanding of the charity sector, the people who operate within it and those served by it. Her imprint will be distinguished by the quality of the authors, its commitment to social justice and the timeliness of its content.

Gail already edits the weekly Civil Sector Press Book Blog — big idea books about the charity sector — and writes Canadian content for AFP Global Daily E-News. For years, she has been at the forefront of writing about charity dynamics in Canada — in 2015, she even authored What The Enemy Thinks, our first novel about Canadian fundraising — so it seems only fitting that Civil Sector Press provide her with a forum to bring together the best and most-experienced authors in the sector to help us all better understand its complex and changing dynamics.

Stay tuned for an announcement about Fall 2020 titles coming from Gail’s imprint.

For more information, contact Jim Hilborn, james@hilborn.com, (416) 554-9403‬, or Gail Picco, gail@gailpicco.com (416) 799-1993.