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Penny Stephens leaves Professional Fundraising
Howard Lake | 12 October 2005 | News
Farewell to Penny Stephens, who is leaving Professional Fundraising magazine today after seven years as editorial director.
Penny, together with publisher Kevin Kibble and editor Ian MacQuillin, have turned the publication from a good read into an essential magazine for the fundraising sector. The magazine has for some years achieved a breadth of coverage and analysis that makes it valuable reading for most people in the fundraising sector.
Penny has helped develop both this, the magazine’s range of conferences and events, and the magazine’s website.
It is also alleged that she is the humorous and scurrilous source of The Raizer, the back page gossip column, and author of such breakthroughs in fundraising thinking as “Anarchy Fundraising.”
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Penny will be working as a freelance and has told UK Fundraising that she will continue to contribute to Professional Fundraising and other charity publications.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.