I’m really starting to understand the immensity of the philanthropic world. It seems every time I “peel the onion” and meet another person engaged in a non-profit endeavour it leads to yet another person of the same persuasion. I’m really enjoying the totally different tone of dialogue that exists in the business-of-giving compared to my […]
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Today Morgan, Simon and I took the first steps toward creating our own brand of creative imagery for Wheel2Wheel. I’ve always found it interesting the way people behave in front of the camera, but today was very refreshing – they are obviously good friends and the rapport that exists between them translates brilliantly in front of
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Today we spoke of the importance of getting some “on the road” time. We agreed we would organise a road trip for when we are all in Australia next. We’ll most likely leave from Morgan’s house in Noosa and make our way south. I’m pretty excited about the ride as it will really give us
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The 2nd official Wheel2Wheel team meeting was held today. There is now a real sense of excitement building about the 18 months ahead of us. We have a dozen individual work streams to get moving on. The team is going to be busy … and I think we need a bigger team! Subscribe to our
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Wheel2Wheel will produce lots of photographs before, during and after the adventure in 2011. Today, internationally recognized photographer Nathan King joined the Wheel2Wheel team to capture all the magic. Thank you to Nathan for offering his time and enthusiasm to the initiative. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/Wheel2Wheelchannel Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wheel2wheel Follow us on
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Today I spent two hours with Zorica King learning the basics of Krav Maga. Wow, it was so awesome. I thought I was reasonably fit, but now I really know how much work I have to do to get into shape. Even though it’s only my first session I can already tell these combat
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Every time I’ve spoken to someone in the last 6 months about travelling through south-east Asia on a motorbike, their routine response is “ooh, you’d better be careful, lots of nasty gangs and militia out there”. So I started doing some research recently to see whether the threat of danger for the Wheel2Wheel team is
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Tonight I attended the ICM (International Care Ministries – www.caremin.com) annual Gala Banquet in Hong Kong. ICM has been doing great work in the Philippines for years and presents as perhaps the best organised small to medium-sized charity I’ve seen. The banquet was attended by 700 Hong Kong people – through a mixture of silent
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A key principle of the initiative was fleshed out today as Jessica Robertson and I talked about the types of charities Wheel2Wheel should shortlist for inclusion and the process for ultimate selection. As an intermediary between capital and charitable organisations, it is of paramount importance to us that the optimal methodology is adopted for selection.
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I picked up my first W2W t-shirt up from Morgan’s mother’s house in Brisbane and it looks terrific. I’ve been wearing it on my morning walks along the Brisbane river to build the brand! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/Wheel2Wheelchannel Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wheel2wheel Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wheel2wheelteam
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