CharityChannel's volunteer article editors are the unsung heroes of the CharityChannel professional community. Editors are responsible for determining who may be invited to join the Contributor's Panel for a given article category, working with contributors in settling on article topics, and lending their expertise where needed in helping contributors ready their submission for publication. Editors, who are chosen in part on the basis of their long experience and demonstrable record of accomplishment in their field, also serve as peer reviewers. Serving in this role takes real dedication and of course time, most of which takes place behind the scenes and therefore is invisible to most of us.
Here are the editors:
Mike Burns is co-editor of Nonprofit Boards and Governance Review, along with Mary Hiland.
Mike is a partner in the firm of BWB Solutions. His practice focuses on improving the capacity of organizations to solve their own problems. Mike facilitates and serves as a resource for nonprofits addressing issues of governance, strategic planning and m
arketing planning, helping each organization set goals and priorities and establish appropriate budgeting and monitoring processes.
Prior to joining BWB Solutions in 1994, Mike was the Executive Director of DATA [Development and Technical Assistance Research and Resource Center], based in New Haven. For 10 years, Mike was Associate Professor of Management at the Antioch-New England Graduate Schools of Organization and Management and Environmental Studies. Mike has 30 years of consulting experience; he has written and edited several books on nonprofit management and fundraising.
He is a member of and has been a trainer in the Alliance, the association of nonprofit management assistance providers.
He has a BA from Marquette University in Business Administration; MA from Lesley College in Nonprofit Management and Governance and a Graduate Certificate from University of Hartford in Nonprofit Marketing.
Mary Hiland, Ph.D. is co-editor of Nonprofit Boards and Governance Review, along with Mike Burns.
Mary is an organizational and board development consultant dedicated to assisting nonprofit leaders to maximize their potential for community impact. Mary’s consulting practice focuses on board and leadership development, effective governance, and strategic alliances. In addition, Mary is an executive coach for new and experienced nonprofit executives and board leaders.
Mary has over thirty-five years experience in the nonprofit sector – twenty as an executive; she has managed all aspects of nonprofit operations. As an executive she led two nonprofit mergers and in her consulting practice has facilitated several. 
Having chaired and served on nonprofit boards, Mary understands the board member perspective first hand. She has presented at numerous conferences, conducts workshops on effective governance, leadership, and strategic alliance, and has taught nonprofit management and governance at San Jose State University.
Mary is a researcher and published author. She has a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems (with a focus on nonprofit leadership and governance) and three Masters Degrees: in organizational development, social work, and public administration. Her research has included studying the dynamics of the board chair/executive relationship and identifying the critical success factors in effective board development.
Mary has received numerous honors including Tribute to Women in Industry, the Women’s Fund 2001 Woman of Achievement Award, and the Silicon Valley Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Award.
Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE is editor of We Review.
Linda is President/CEO of CAPITAL VENTURE, a full service consulting firm. Linda is one of fewer than 100 professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation.
In her eighteen years as a philanthropic consultant, Linda has managed capital campaigns ranging from $250,000 to over $30 million; helped 
hundreds of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and has trained more than 20,000 professionals in all aspects of development in Canada, Mexico, Egypt and most of the 50 United States. Linda has received the Outstanding Fundraising Executive award from both the Eastern PA and the Las Vegas chapters of AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) and in 2006 was recognized internationally with the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Service to AFP.
Linda is a graduate of Alvernia University with a BA in Banking & Finance and Theology/Philosophy and a minor in Communications. As a graduate of AFP’s Faculty Training Academy, she is a Master Teacher and currently serves as Chair of the ACFRE Application Task Force. She is a member of the Planned Giving Committee and the Chapter Gift Committee for the AFP Foundation, and President of the AFP Sierra Chapter in Reno, NV.
She is a frequent presenter at regional and international conferences and has received two AFP research grants. Linda is the author of Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers, The Development Plan, Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy? Everything You Wanted to Know about Capital Campaigns, The Genius’ Guide to Fundraising, a contributing author to The Fundraising Feasibility Study—It’s Not About the Money, co-editor of You and Your Nonprofit, to be published in 2010 and co-author of The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook. She is currently working on Raising More Money from Your Business Community, to be published in 2011 by CharityChannel Press.
Stephen Nill is editor of ePhilanthropy and Technology Review, Major Gifts and Planned Giving Review, Nonprofit Consulting Review, Volunteer Management Review, and Nonprofit PR and Marketing Review.
Stephen founded CharityChannel in 1992 as a means of connecting his nonprofit hospital chain's fund development staff over the Internet to their colleagues at other organizations. That first discussion community grew into what is today the oldest and largest community of third-sector professionals in the world, comprised of well over 150,000 participants worldwide.
He has been working in the US and international third sector for more than 30 years. He has served as the Chief Development Officer at a major Southern California university, the CEO of a large health care foundation, a vice-president of fund development of a U.S. west-coast nonprofit hospital chain, as a founder and acting director of development of a parochial school in his 
community, and as a founder of an organization dedicated to providing food and clothing for homeless persons in Southern California.
Stephen is an attorney admitted to practice in California in 1981. His clients include some of the 100 wealthiest families in the United States as well as nonprofit organizations and educational institutions throughout the United States, Canada, and the UK. He has conducted continuing education classes for lawyers on advanced topics in estate planning and taxation (including gift planning), tax-exempt organization law, and Internet law, for such organizations as the State Bar of California, the Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations, CEB, and others.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles (1981), and his Bachelor of Arts degree in two majors, Communications and Political Science, from California State University, Fullerton (1978). He was selected as Executive Editor of the Daily Titan, the university's daily broadsheet newspaper.
Over the past nearly three decades, he has been a keynote or plenary speaker at most of the third-sector's professional organization international, national and regional conferences.
Stephen is a frequent media source on nonprofit-organization issues, appearing on numerous broadcast news programs such as Fox News and CNN. He has been quoted in numerous print publications such as Fortune Magazine, London Times, New York Times, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nonprofit Times, etc.
He formerly served on the board of the Giving USA Foundation (also known as the AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy), which publishes the annual Giving USA report. He is a member of the advisory board of the National Philanthropic Trust. In 2005 he received the President's Award of the American Association of Grant Professionals. In 2010 he recieved the President's Award of the Grant Professionals Certification Institute.
Rebecca Shawver serves as editor of Grants and Foundations Review. Rebecca Vermillion Shawver possess an MPA degree from Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indianapolis campus. She is currently the Director of Grant Administration at B
razosport College. Her duties include assisting college administrators, faculty and staff members in the development of federal, state, corporate and private foundation grant applications; developing the conceptual aspects of proposals through the proposal review process and the analysis of statistical data; developing proposal budgets and determining personnel, equipment, and other costs to be charged to funding agencies; researching funding opportunities; conducting proposal writing and other grant-related workshops for college personnel; assisting project directors in monitoring funded proposals; and publishing a twice monthly grant newsletter.
Rebeccais an active member of the Grant Professionals Association and has earned her GPC. Additionally, she is a member of the Council for Resource Development (CRD) for community college fund development professionals. She is a past CRD Director for Region VI and a past member of the CRD National Board. She has presented numerous workshops at multiple regional and national CRD conferences.
A native born Hoosier, Rebecca continues to serve as a consultant for agencies located in the State of Indiana. Additionally, she is the author of What Funders Want: Developing Evaluation Plans to Support Your K-12 Grant Applications (LRP Publications).
Rebecca is a dedicated volunteer working with the AFS Intercultural Programs. As the Volunteer Chair for the AFS Cradle of Texas Chapter, she is responsible for implementing and coordinating the AFS high school exchange program in part of Harris and all of Brazoria County, Texas. Having hosted twenty exchange students over the past twenty-five years, she and her husband are currently the proud host parents of AFS daughters from Japan and Hong Kong.