by mfg | Nov 25, 2009 | US Philanthropy
Returning from two weeks in India – with my mind full of thoughts, I came across Hans Rosling’s video from Ted India. I adore how excited Rosling is about statistics (b/c I’m not), and think GapMinder is quite clever (b/c helps people like me to “get it”)....
by mfg | Nov 6, 2009 | Canadian Philanthropy, US Philanthropy
As a side project to my day job, I’ve been exploring the world of Canadian public policy. Given the opportunity to participate in a very smart program for non-profits called the Max Bell Public Policy Institute – I’ve been opening my eyes ( & brain) to the...
by mfg | Oct 30, 2009 | Calgary, Canadian Philanthropy
I’m still mulling over my ‘helpful’ theme from my last blog post – we all (usually) have good intentions to be helpful. In my last post, I was asking donors to be helpful – and after two philanthropic conference in one week, I am turning...
by mfg | Sep 21, 2009 | Canadian Philanthropy
Greeting me this morning was a Twitter post from Imagine Canada – forwarding an article from the National Post titled, “Let the Donor Beware”. Reading through the article, I quickly asked, “is this helpful?” Life in the non-profit...
by mfg | Sep 11, 2009 | Canadian Philanthropy, Philanthropy
A colleague sent me this video the other day, posted on Katya’s Non Profit Marketing Blog. It made me both laugh and cringe. We’d never find ourselves bartering with our hair stylist or in a restaurant on the price of a service received. We’d...
by mfg | Sep 1, 2009 | US Philanthropy
The increasing professionalization of (Western) Philanthropy has left most of us, the average check writer, in the dust. Professionalization is not necessarily a bad thing, but it elicits a similar answer to questions of “why I am unable to do my husband’s treasury...
