Two minutes with Rita Morin
November 29, 2004
By Cam Tait
Agency: Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN)
Title: Director, Social Enterprise Development & Corporate Relations
Favourite colour: Pink
Favourite television show: Friends
Favourite movie: The English Patient
Favourite book: Me To We by Craig Kielburger and anything by the Irish writer Maeve Binchy
Favourite food: Seafood
Favourite web site: www.plan.ca
and www.philia.ca
Favourite music: Classical - particularly Mozart
Favourite destination spot: Cozumel, Mexico (I've been there 8 times!)
Childhood idol: President John. F. Kennedy - (that dates me!)
Your hero: Katharine Hepburn - she did it her way!
Why you decided to work in the nonprofit sector: I started as a volunteer and the vortex sucked me in!!
Person who has had the most influence on you: Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute. I had the privilege of working with him for part of my career.
In three words, describe charity: Caring for others.
Favourite charities you support, excluding your own: Médecins Sans Frontières, Vancouver YWCA, St. Augustine's School Capital Campaign (I'm volunteer chair)
What two things would you like to see changed in the sector in the
next five years?: That every organization has enough money to achieve
its mission! And that the sector is treated as an equal partner with
government and business for its contribution to the health of Canadian
society. (Boy can I dream!!)
Favourite saying: "It's much easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission."
Favourite hobby: Kayaking anywhere on the West Coast.
If you could spend 30 minutes with anyone, who would it be?:
Nelson Mandela
Fantasy fundraising event: Organizations no longer need to hold fundraising events because everything is funded! (How's that for fantasy??)
Which movie star would you pick as your group's honorary chair?:
Michael J. Fox
Favourite joke you can share with children and adults: I never
remember jokes - or I screw up the punch line!!
Do you know someone who deserves to be in the Charity Village Spotlight? Send us their name, telephone number and details about their community involvement to cam@charityvillage.com.
