by mfg | Jan 7, 2010 | Calgary, Canadian Philanthropy
From Pat Morris, Connections Counselling – in her 2010 New Years Greeting. I once read a quote that loosely translated said “we don’t always realize the impact we have on others -through our words and our actions. We may never know how our interactions and kind...
by mfg | Jan 5, 2010 | Canadian Philanthropy
Look what can happen when 20,000 strangers come together. Oprah didn’t know that a director arrived before her. Teaching the audience how to dance together. What will we do together?
by mfg | Dec 16, 2009 | Calgary, Canadian Philanthropy
Driving around Calgary on sheets of ice and in snow, isn’t something that I love to do. My little Scion slips and slides along the roads – and I hear my father’s voice “shift into neutral”. I grew up in the Mid-West so I know how to...
by mfg | Dec 15, 2009 | The "Socials"
Social finance, rather than detracting an organization from their mission, provides the ability for an organization to achieve their mission using a more robust diversity of tools, namely, generate revenue. Too often we assume a broad philosophical gap between...
by mfg | Dec 15, 2009 | The "Socials"
Social finance, rather than detracting an organization from their mission, provides the ability for an organization to achieve their mission using a more robust diversity of tools, namely, generate revenue. Too often we assume a broad philosophical gap between...
by mfg | Dec 4, 2009 | US Philanthropy
I last asked, “Will the West let Asia rise?” I was playing off a comment from Hans Rosling’s TED presentation – and was applying a similar notion to philanthropy and social innovation. Writing for Alliance, Olga Alexeeva turned my thesis around in her article...
