by Suzanne Bakker | May 1, 2022 | budgeting, fundraising, timesheets | 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 include everything you need There are several reasons why...
by Suzanne Bakker | Mar 27, 2022 | budgeting, human resource management, learning, team management | Practical Labour Law & HR
How can you help your team acquire knowledge and skills they need to plan work and set boundaries? To learn new knowledge and feel accomplished as a person? To learn new skills and have more variety in the work? Learning can be so helpful, inspiring and motivating....
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
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 | 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...
