by Suzanne Bakker | Dec 13, 2020 | annual accounts report, budgeting, expenses, finance management, human resource management, income, non-profit management, team management, year-end accounts report, year-end goals | Annual Reporting, Finance Management, Practical Labour Law & HR
With the holidays coming up soon, it is high time to think about your year-end work if you haven’t already. With year-end work I refer to tasks and checks that need to be done in preparation of the closing of the year. The aim of year-end tasks and checks is to make...
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 | Jun 21, 2020 | communication, crisis, crisis management, expenses, finance management, fundraising, income, project proposal, risk, risk analysis, risk management | Nonprofit management
Nobody knows what the future will bring. If anything, the current pandemic has made that very clear. Things that seemed impossible before, are possible now and vice versa. It may not be something you could have planned for, as a small nonprofit working on other...
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...
