by Suzanne Bakker | Apr 3, 2022 | building trust, human resource management, non-profit management, team management | Practical Labour Law & HR
As a leader you are responsible that your team has a safe place to work from. This can only work if the team members feel owners of this effort, too (see also my post on unwanted behaviour). But another important requirement is to have mechanisms in place that help...
by Suzanne Bakker | Mar 13, 2022 | building trust, human resource management, non-profit management, team management | Practical Labour Law & HR
Clear communication is super important in building and keeping trust in your team. And also between your organization and the outside world: your target group, key stakeholders and (funding) partners. Clear communication becomes exponentially more important as the...
by Suzanne Bakker | Jan 23, 2022 | building trust, project management, roject basics, working with donors | Project management
Looking at your work plan you will probably see some projects there. No matter whether your projects are paid by grant making donors, private individuals or your own resources. A project is a project: a set of actions towards a clear end goal starting and ending at...
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 7, 2021 | building trust, call for proposals, forming partnerships, fundraising, human resource management, non-profit management, project design, team management, working with donors | Building Partnerships, Practical Labour Law & HR, Project Design
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...
