Category Archives: BIG GIVE

*** The Big Give 2010: The First Meet

After months of email and telephone communication, I finally got to meet Heather and Andrew – the recipients of this years Big Give !
The three of us had lunch yesterday and we literally talked non-stop for 2+ hours.  When the waitress dropped the bill on our table, we kinda got the hint. Our conversation...

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*** The Big Give 2010: Winning Submission (Part 1)

FINALLY !!! We have a winner !
This has been quite the journey trying to find a deserving winner for my Big Give 2010 and I am so relieved to have finally selected the winning submission.
On April 22, 2010, I received a wonderful submission in my inbox from Heather.  Now, her name kinda looked familiar because...

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Big Give 2009 Reunion :)

What a beautiful day it was in Toronto today.  The weather was fantastic and the Big Give 2009 Team finally had our overdue get together with Holly and Matt.  Believe it or not, a lot of us have never actually met so it was great that we were able to actually put some faces to...

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*** The Big Give 2010 (Update)

Here’s the long awaited update for this years Big Give.
7 weeks worth of submissions….127 submissions read….top 10 submissions selected…10 calls made out…and no winner.
Bummer.
Typical reasons: conflict of dates // couldn’t wait for announcement // story was fabricated (ya, not cool)
So, at this moment, I don’t even know if this is going to happen, which is...

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