by Suzanne Bakker | Jun 7, 2020 | call for proposals, crisis management, finance management, handling adversity, income, project design, project proposal | Nonprofit management
Even if you are a stellar fundraiser you will face rejection of some of your proposals. It happens. This is life. You merely get to decide how you will use this experience to improve your organization. You may not be what the funder is looking for at that moment after...
by Suzanne Bakker | May 31, 2020 | board, budgeting, call for proposals, expenses, finance management, income, project basics, project design, setting up, starting your project | Finance Management, Getting Started, Project Design
No need to worry, this is not going to be a philosophical post. Not at all in fact. I want to highlight something very practical. And a very practical solution as well! If you want to know something at the end, you must make sure you collect the necessary data from...
by Suzanne Bakker | May 24, 2020 | budgeting, expenses, finance management, income, project basics, project design | Finance Management
Many of the principles of love and attention for your nonprofit’s finance apply to your personal finance, too. For instance, making a personal budget and weekly spending plan for your household are remarkably like developing your project budget and making a liquidity...
by Suzanne Bakker | May 17, 2020 | accountability, expenses, finance management, income, project design, systems | Nonprofit management
Last week I wrote about your cash box and how to handle cash properly. I hope you got the impression that I find it very important and am passionate about this. Because I am. Not because I care about cash (or non-cash money), really. But because I know that proper...
by Suzanne Bakker | May 10, 2020 | expenses, finance management, project basics | Finance Management
Very probably you have a cash box in your office somewhere, with a small amount of money in it. You probably use this sporadically. For instance, when someone needs to run to the shop quickly to buy something very minor. In most organizations, petty cash is not...
