Co-Founder & VPAction Connected
Simon Reckla is the Co-Founder and Vice President at Action Connected, a groundbreaking online fundraising platform promoting an equal partnership between funders, implementers and beneficiaries.
He aims at realising and promoting Action Connected's vision of an inclusive and transparent development fundraising ecosystem responsive to demand-driven solutions and to learning and adaptation within the project cycle. Motivated to do more to help and concerned by reports of fraud and misuse of resources, a new generation of concerned global citizens and change makers wants to know more about how their money is spent and the impact it has. Action Connected’s partnership model of online non-profit fundraising responds to this immediate desire of people and institutions to have a deeper, shared and lasting connection and impact with beneficiaries as those communities served through their donations and resources. Accountability lies at the heart of Action Connected's equitable approach to development project design and delivery of contributions, supporting more lasting change and meaningful experiences for everyone involved in the process.
Simon’s passion lies in fostering truly sustainable development practices at the highest level of international standards. This involves ethical business practices and sustainable policies that take into account the direct needs of beneficiaries as a priority and guiding principle.
Simon’s experience in management and strategic communications for private sector firms and inter-governmental agencies throughout the European Union gives Action Connected acute understanding of the sometimes-volatile international policy landscape effecting global development and financial transactions across countries.
Simon Reckla is a native of Italy with Austrian lineage fluent in German, Italian, English and Russian. He holds dual Masters Degrees in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK and in International Relations in Eurasia from the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.