by Suzanne Bakker | May 1, 2022 | budgeting, fundraising, human resource management | Project Design
In my experience it really helps to visualize things. Visualizing your project design helps understand whether it can actually be successful. And visualizing your activities makes it easier to create a budget that includes everything you need. But maybe you are...
by Suzanne Bakker | Apr 24, 2022 | budgeting, donor relations | Finance Management, Project Design
What if you are implementing your grant and realize that you have made a mistake in your budget? What if your project budget doesn’t include everything you need? Four reasons why your project budget may not work There are several reasons why your budget could be ‘all...
by Suzanne Bakker | Feb 6, 2022 | project basics, project design, project management | Project Design, Project management
All donors require a monitoring framework as part of a project proposal. This helps you (and them) monitor progress towards your project results, objectives, and impact. Very often, monitoring focuses on collecting numbers. So in fact you are measuring quantities...
by Suzanne Bakker | Dec 12, 2021 | annual accounts report, budgeting, call for proposals, expenses, finance management, income, project design, year-end accounts report, year-end goals | Annual Reporting, Finance Management, Project Design
December is for many of us the final month not just of the calendar year but also of the book year, the fiscal year. If you work with finance in your nonprofit, you are focusing on being sure you have all the needed data for closing the book year. So how to go about...
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 | Annual Reporting, Building Partnerships, Finance Management, Practical Labour Law & HR, Project Design
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, Practical Labour Law & HR, Project Design
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...
