by Suzanne Bakker | Jul 26, 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
Last week I wrote about planning as a way to organize your work. To create clarity around what you should be doing when in order to achieve a set goal. Setting up systems is another element of organizing the work of your nonprofit. To most people this sounds like a...
by Suzanne Bakker | Jul 19, 2020 | board, call for proposals, project basics, project design, setting up, starting your project | Getting Started, Project Design
As I wrote last week, in regard of finding the right donor, good planning is a big part of your success. Planning is a way of helping you organize your work. A good planning is a plan that is realistic for you under the circumstances, that includes reflection and...
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 | Mar 15, 2020 | call for proposals, project design | Project Design
Many project proposal templates include a section that refers to the relevance of your idea. What do they mean by that? In my view, there are three aspects to relevance that you should keep in mind when designing a project. Relevance to the context First of all, you...
