GG State Visit to Africa, Goma

April 22, 2010

A day after delivering a historic speech to the government of the Congo on women’s rape, we travelled to the center of it all–Goma. Located on Lake Kivu in the country’s East, Goma is considered the center-point for much of the turmoil that has cost this nation over 5 million lives.

The highlight of the day [...]

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GG State Visit to Africa, Kinshasa

April 21, 2010

There was no more poignant moment during in the day and a half we spent in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, than Her Excellency’s speech to their parliament.
Let me set the stage for you: the Eastern region of the DRC has been embroiled in a conflict for [...]

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GG State Visit, Day 4

April 18, 2010

This video blog marks end of the last day of Canada’s State Visit through Senegal. Off do the DRC first thing Sunday morning.
I’m hoping to blog from Kinshasa, but the poor Internet conditions there may make it difficult. Enjoy!

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GG State Visit, Day 3

April 17, 2010

Ok, I have to write fast–I’ve only got ten minutes.
This State Visit feels more like the middle of a heated election battle–event, after speech, after dinner, after kissing babies. No time to rest. Only time to move.

I respect this about the way the GG and her staff have organized this–it’s no vacation. It’s designed to [...]

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GG State Visit, Day 2 in Pictures

April 16, 2010

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GG State Visit, Day 1

April 15, 2010

So, the day finally arrived.
After months of speculation and weeks of prep, I was off yesterday with Her Excellency, Michaelle Jean, the Governor General of Canada, on a State Visit through 4 African countries (well, officially only 3–Cape Verde is an ‘official visit’ in diplomat speak).
As we left, the challenge ahead of me became clear–relax, [...]

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Priorities and Traveling with the GG

April 12, 2010

I’m not going to apologize for failing to blog much over the last few months.
I was on a hot streak for a while, posting thoughts on nonprofit management almost daily.
But, as a nonprofit blogger who also runs a nonprofit, I got caught in the vortex of my job and, alas, was distracted away from my [...]

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Sponsor Shout Out

March 23, 2010

Am I a stooge of the great corporate beasts when I dedicate a blog post to our sponsors?
Hell no.
We can put on events like the this Friday’s Night for Rights because of them. We can run our projects overseas, helping millions of people, because of them. They are not our enemies–they are our friends. Some [...]

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The Importance of Night for Rights

March 22, 2010

The first time I knew that jhr was going to make it was at our first Night for Rights.

It was 2003; I had started jhr just a few months previous. I was armed with lots of ideas, but no money. So I did what I knew I could–I threw a party.
I distinctly remember looking out [...]

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jhr’s hosting a tweet-up

February 17, 2010

Among jhr’s growing assortment of social media vehicles and experiments, you can now participate in jhr’s first-ever tweet-up on February 26th.

Some might scoff at the idea, but tweet-ups are a great way to turn online communities into offline networks.
We are advertising only through jhr’s social media avenues, and attendees will learn how to promote Rights [...]

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