LGBTQ Pride month – by the numbers
As we celebrate LGBTQ Pride month, let’s check out some numbers about our workplace and our families. We have a lot to celebrate. And as you’ll see below, a lot of reasons to keep marching and organizing as well.…
Detroit Meetup, June 6th 5:30
Stop by before the Tigers game for a Happy Hour with the Fun with Financials crew. Get stickers and temporary tattoos. Talk finance, baseball, and politics. What could be better? http://www.skybardetroit.com/ Add it to your own calendar. Click here to…
Fiscal Sponsorship – Are You Ready, Willing and Able?
Last week we talked about the role fiscal sponsors play in the nonprofit world and why they are the right model for some organizations. Today, we’re exploring the world of being a fiscal sponsor. Should your organization think about serving…
Don’t Hate on Your Fiscal Sponsor’s Fees
Often I hear comments about the financial cost (service fees) of being a fiscally sponsored project. I hear organizations say that they could do the work more cheaply themselves. That they could save money by keeping all of the…
Procedures Manual: Employee Entries and Exits
This month, you’re writing Chapter 4 of your Procedures Manual about new employees and departing employees. When you finish answering these questions, you will have completed one third of the manual! Or are you still working on the previous…
Happy Admin Week!
If you are an Administrative Professional, congratulations this is your week! Administrative Professionals Week formerly known as National Secretaries Week started in 1952 “as an effort to recognize secretaries for their contributions in the workplace, and to attract people…
Procedures Manual: Payroll Process
Today’s the day to write the third chapter of your Procedures Manual. Once you answer these simple questions you will have written the first quarter of the manual. Congratulations! Be honest. Haven’t the first two chapters already come in…
Procedures Manual: Entering & Paying Bills
Today’s the day! The day to complete your second assignment in the fun-filled Let’s Write a Procedures Manual challenge. Last month you answered 4 short questions about making bank deposits. [Click here if you missed last month's entry.] Even though you…
Celebrate Pi Day!
Does today’s date, 3/14 mean anything to you? To mathematicians around the world it means celebrate. Because today is Pi Day. Remember high school math? The relationship between a circle’s diameter and its circumference. That’s Pi. 3.14 for short.…
Do We Need a 4th Wave of Feminism for Nonprofits?
As women across the world celebrate International Women’s Day, I thought I should take a look at the women in our part of the world. In the nonprofit sector. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that only 18.8 percent (75) of…