Digg DiggI’ll be taking a break from posts on re: charity for a few weeks as I am in Rwanda for the Made in Rwanda Insight Trip and Leadership Summit. I’ll be posting on OpportunityCan on my personal page as well as the madeinrwanda.opportunitycan.ca page. You can also follow along...

fo·cus (noun), a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity. Do you think nonprofits or charities suffer from a lack of focus? I do. Not in lacking what they ultimately do (help the homeless, eradicate poverty, etc.) but in how they attempt to get there namely through raising the...

One of my favourite microfinance bloggers David Roodman, from the Center for Global Development, recently published a book called “Due Dilligence: An Important Inquiry into Microfinance” that is drawing attention, once again, to the validity and impact of microfinance. He summed up...

A curation of my best tweets and links from the week that was. Enjoy!   [View the story "Tweets of the Week - January 18 - 25" on Storify] Share “ Another gooder from @charityexec. Somewhat surprising. “Nonprofit Communications Trends for 2012 Infographic” ...

Blog friends of re: charity, charityexecutive.com, recently had a post titled “Changing Your LinkedIn Profile Into an Infographic” that shared a site, vizualize.me, I hadn’t seen before. If you’ve been on re: charity before you’ll know that we love us some...

One of the lessons learned from blogging in 2011 was how hard it is to produce regular content all by yourself so… here’s the first guest post of 2012! Darian Kovacs is hard to describe and I continue to find out new things he does and people he’s connected to. If you had to...

A curation of my best tweets and links from the week that was. Enjoy! View the story “Tweets of the Week January 10 – 17″ on Storify

With 2012 well underway, I was taking a look back at the year at re: charity and the blog. It was my first year of blogging and I have learned a great deal. I hope to be a bit more consistent in 2012 and find ways to get others more involved. That being said, here were the top 5 posts of...

Good post awhile back from the good folks at For Impact called “If it is important, do it every day.” that got me thinking in terms of fundraising, what is important and how could I do it every day? So here it goes, 5 things you should do every day (and some ideas on how you can do it). 1....

This past week I was fortunate to present on Opportunity International, specifically our agricultural finance program, along with Jocelyn Ling from Vancouver for Acumen, Sean Peters from Globaly Catalyst Initiative and Bonnie Wong from Van City at the Canadian Global Impact Investing Group. It...