android communicate between activity and broadcast receiver

Question

I have an activity which displays some data fetched from the server. If no connection is available, activity displays some cached data; if connection is available, activity fetches data and displays it. It all works as expected.
Now, I would like to make my activity reload the data as soon as the connection occurs. I am using a simple Receiver that extends the BroadcastReceiver:

public class ConnectionChangeReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) context
                .getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo activeNetInfo = connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
        if (activeNetInfo != null) {
            //what to do here? 
        } 
     }
}

Broadcast receiver is declared in my manifest file as follows:

<receiver android:name=".ConnectionChangeReceiver"
          android:label="NetworkConnection">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.net.conn.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE"/>
        </intent-filter>
</receiver>

In my activity, I register the receiver:

ConnectionChangeReceiver receiver = new ConnectionChangeReceiver(); this.registerReceiver(receiver, new IntentFilter(ConnectivityManager.CONNECTIVITY_ACTION));

Now, I am confused as what to do next. When onReceive method is executed, how to make my activity aware of that? I know I could start a new activity, but that's not really what I want. Should I declare ConnectionChangeReceiver as a private class of my activity? Or is there any other solution?