(January 24, 2023) Created in 2020 to be a course of independent reporting on the charity sector, The Charity Report announced today that it was ceasing publication, as of January 30, 2023, two months shy of its third birthday.
The Charity Report will carry on hosting the website, so articles will be available on the website. The long-format Intelligence Reports produced will be pulled from behind the subscribers’ paywall, and are available on the Features and Reports page of the website..
“I’ve been working in the charity sector my entire professional life,” says Gail Picco, editor-in-chief. “And since 2010, I’ve been writing extensively about the framework of inequity and destructive power dynamics the sector is built upon. My first blog, Your Working Girl, began in 2010. Cap in Hand: How charities are failing the people of Canada and the world was published in 2017.
“While our writers and researchers produced outstanding work, I simply don’t have the creative, human and financial resources to continue putting a such a significant amount of energy into this analyzing and critiquing significant economic sector that for some confounding reason doesn’t really get covered by the business or social justice press,” she says.
“While I loved all the writing The Charity Report produced, and want to thank anyone we’ve ever spoken to, I am particularly thrilled with The Charity Report Literary Circle, where we reviewed hundreds of books notionally of interest to charity sector. Each and everyone one of our Literary Review Panel is second to none, and many, along with our non-literary writers, have become friends.”
All the content we’ve ever produced including book reviews and our podcast Talking Up, a show interviewing authors whose books we covered, will be preserved on the site.
The Charity Report thanks its subscribers, writers, readers, and supporters. “Without you all, we wouldn’t have existed at all,,” says Picco.