How can I get some?

The shortest cut to getting a piece of the money that’s floating around the charitable sector for your own personal self is to obtain your CFRE® — the Certified Fund Raising Executive certificate, a fundraising certification program run by the industry self-regulator, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).  The test is tough, made up of […]

How do I show I have it?

Deep down, Your Working Girl’s populist side believes that hospitals, universities and associated government-funded buildings should be called “The People’s Cardiac Centre”  or “The People’s Breast Cancer Laboratory”, “The People’s Law Library” and so on.  She does, however, acknowledge it has the tinge of the Maoist about it and she doesn’t want to throw her […]

Where the money is

Welcome to The Money Edition of Your Working Girl.  This week it’s all about money — who has it, who doesn’t, how to get some and how to show it.   Your Working Girl never thought, with all due respect to the profession, that accountants would be a necessary part of the revolution.  Today she […]

108 Stitches

The promise of a new baseball season is upon us. All things are possible now. In Toronto, we are wild with excitement: R.J. Dickie, Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Melky Cabrera, the whole darn gang are just so full of potential. Surely, we are contenders.  But win or lose, watching these million dollar players bounce around […]

They’re hanging from the rafters!

Your Working Girl witnessed four women from the Canadian Armed Forces gracefully rappel from the rafters at the Leafs vs Jets game on March 16th what in what was billed as a tribute to the Canadian Armed Forces. “It means so much to the forces to have the people in the stands behind them,” said […]

IAMGOLD: We are pink

Tipping the scales at just a little under half a page, the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers ad in the Globe and Mail last week trumpeted IAMGOLD CEO Steve Letwin’s participation in the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation mega event that’s has raised $120 million in the past 10 years.  His team’s name?  We are pink. […]

Good, bad or kinda creepy?

Kimberley-Clark is growing its market share of the $2.6 billion feminine-protection market with Generation Know, an integrated marketing campaign aimed at 14 – 22 year olds says Brandchannel. The campaign features a “refreshingly direct” and explicit ask-anything website by UByKotex.com where young visitors can “Take action to be the first generation in the know.” “Girls today […]

Good morning, Earth!

One of the best of 2013 so far. Commander Chris Hadfield has gripped the Twitterverse with his three or four-a-day tweets featuring the most stunning views of our planet that Your Working Girl has ever clapped her eyes on. The International Space Station runs in the UTC, Coordinated Universal Time zone which is Greenwich Mean […]