by Suzanne Bakker | Apr 17, 2022 | donor relations, planning | Nonprofit management
Public holidays can be good opportunities to reach out to the community you serve, including your (foreign) partners and donors. For instance, by hosting an event, organizing an activity, or sending a (personal) message. Here is what you need to consider when planning...
by Suzanne Bakker | Apr 10, 2022 | systems, team management | Nonprofit management
Inevitably, someone is going to leave their position and your team. Maybe only temporary, for maternity leave. Or because they have a serious illness to deal with. Or ‘forever’, for another job at another organization. In any case, when someone is stepping out for a...
by Suzanne Bakker | Jan 16, 2022 | non-profit management, project management | Nonprofit management, Working for Your Mission
Before you finalize the work plan for the year, let’s look at your lessons learned of the past year. How can you make sure you use your lessons learned to do better? Let’s start with your annual work plan Look at your work plan. Which elements are the same or very...
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 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...
by Suzanne Bakker | Nov 7, 2021 | building trust, call for proposals, forming partnerships, fundraising, human resource management, non-profit management, project design, team management, working with donors | Nonprofit management
Since fundraising is a process, monitoring what you do & what happens and learning from that is key. So, let’s look at how to keep track of and learn from your fundraising actions. Plan Since the next best step depends on what comes out of the step you have just...
