by Suzanne Bakker | Mar 6, 2022 | contracting, human resource management | Practical Labour Law & HR
When you add a new member to your team, you need to be clear about the arrangements. This is what a contract helps you achieve. In many contracts, other documents are referenced that are then also part of the arrangements. For instance, a personnel guide or a Code of...
by Suzanne Bakker | Feb 27, 2022 | human resource management, team management | Practical Labour Law & HR
Do you know this feeling of things (people!) moving too slow? That you ask yourself, why can’t the team finish this task in a week? What are they doing with their time? Are they serious enough? Are you concerned about productivity of your nonprofit team? Here...
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 28, 2021 | budgeting, call for proposals, expenses, finance management, human resource management, income, non-profit management, project design, team management | Finance Management
Now that you have developed ways to have insight into your expenses, we can start looking ahead. It is good (great, even!) to have insight into what you spent, but remember, this is the past you’re looking at. And you also need to look at the future. What resources do...
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...
