forming partnerships Archives

What you need to understand about your donors

by Suzanne Bakker | Feb 24, 2024 | Project management

As soon as you get that project grant, you and the donor are partners for a shared purpose. You’re working together to achieve something for the community or cause you both care about. And that changes the relationship you have. Even if it remains formal. Even if it...

What to focus on in December?

by Suzanne Bakker | Dec 5, 2021 | 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...

How to keep track of and learn from your fundraising actions

by Suzanne Bakker | Nov 7, 2021 | 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...

Reaching out to your donor base in Q4

by Suzanne Bakker | Oct 17, 2021 | Nonprofit management

In a previous article I focused on what is guiding you in the final quarter of 2021. In this article I want to zoom in a bit more on what you can do and plan regarding your donor base in this period of the year, on reaching out to your donor base in Q4. Wrapping up...

Why they don’t pick your nonprofit as a partner

by Suzanne Bakker | Sep 26, 2021 | Building Partnerships

My talk about how to find a partner organization for your nonprofit led to several questions about how organizations pick and choose local partners to work with. About why they don’t pick your nonprofit as a partner, maybe. Recap: why are they looking for a partner?...