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Get Some Stakeholder Satisfaction
Last weekend we hosted my mother’s side of the family for a last hurrah Christmas gathering. Over time we’ve decided that December is too busy for all 17 of us to get together, so a few years ago we decided to shift our annual gathering to early January. Takes a bit of the pressure off […]
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New Year, New Changes for Charities
Happy New Year! How did you spend your New Year’s Eve? A random survey of my friends and family revealed quite a diversity of responses to this question: from going to bed at 9:30pm after the new baby finally went to sleep, to staying out until 8am on New Year’s Day. Of course there were […]
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Can Someone Else Write This Report (Please!)?
Many years ago – last century in fact – when I was in Grade 5 (told you it was a long time ago!), I went off to a week long Writers Camp. There were about six kids from my school, and similar from other schools around the region. We spent a week writing stories, and […]
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What price accountability?
One of the, ah, benefits of doing most of my work from home is that I’m around for any visiting salespeople. Recently I had a visit from a lovely young lady who was doing an energy efficiency swap program funded by the government. She swapped our old shower heads and light globes for new ones – […]
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6 Things to Remember When Preparing an ACFID Code Compliant Annual Report
Recently I was assisting a client in getting their Annual Report ticked off against the ACFID Code requirements before it went off to the printers. I was reminded of the many hours that I have spent preparing annual report financial statements, graphs, explanations… and then reading and rereading the copy till I could almost recite […]
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