by Suzanne Bakker | Feb 20, 2022 | non-profit management, project basics, project management, reporting, working with donors | Project management
How often have you created a report? For your board maybe, or for a donor? And how many times have you enjoyed this task? One of the reasons why many nonprofits find reporting so tedious is because it is not always clear what the point is for themselves. And many...
by Suzanne Bakker | Feb 13, 2022 | evaluation, project management | Project management
A good monitoring framework helps you collect relevant information in the implementation of your project. So that you can know how you are doing and what to adjust, if necessary, to do better. At the end of your project, it is time to zoom out a bit and evaluate the...
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 | 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 | Jan 16, 2022 | non-profit management, project management | nonprofit management, Working for Your Mission
Before you finalize the work plan for the year, let’s look at your lessons learned of the past year. How can you make sure you use your lessons learned to do better? Let’s start with your annual work plan Look at your work plan. Which elements are the same or very...
