by Suzanne Bakker | Jan 9, 2022 | annual work plan | Nonprofit management, Working for Your Mission
Let’s look at what you may want to do to make sure you’re getting off to a good start of the new year. Annual work plan You may have created an annual work plan already last year, when you were preparing your annual budget and work plan for approval by the board. Is...
by Suzanne Bakker | Dec 25, 2021 | annual accounts report, financial management, nonprofit management, year-end accounts report | Annual Reporting
We have looked at why you might need or want to create an annual report. So now it is time to look at what to include in your annual report. A legal obligation If there is a legal obligation, there often are legal minimum requirements for information you must include...
by Suzanne Bakker | Dec 19, 2021 | annual accounts report, financial management, nonprofit management, year-end accounts report | Annual Reporting
This period of the year is a period of reflection and looking back for many people and especially for nonprofits. Especially for those that run year-end donation campaigns, as looking back can be a powerful part of such campaigns. Sharing past impact can help mobilize...
by Suzanne Bakker | Dec 12, 2021 | annual accounts report, budgeting, call for proposals, expenses, finance management, income, project design, year-end accounts report, year-end goals | Annual Reporting, Finance Management
December is for many of us the final month not just of the calendar year but also of the book year, the fiscal year. If you work with finance in your nonprofit, you are focusing on being sure you have all the needed data for closing the book year. So how to go about...
by Suzanne Bakker | Dec 5, 2021 | annual accounts report, budgeting, building trust, call for proposals, expenses, finance management, forming partnerships, fundraising, human resource management, income, non-profit management, project design, team management, working with donors, year-end accounts report, year-end goals | Nonprofit management
December for me is very much a loose-ends month. I look at my accounting, and clear up loose ends there. I look at my data, collect a few missing ones and run a few experiments. And I look at my goals for the year and figure out if I can still do something to get...