10 years is worth a book

I spent 11 years working on finance for projects and linking a lot with NGOs on how best to acount for funds they received. Some NGOs are so keen on acounting for every cent and others are keen on 'eating' as much as possible. Others have leaders who have no idea what finance is all  about and leave it all to the Accountant to figure it out - others have all the details in their fingertips and even direct finance on where savings can come from, negotiate for budget modifications etc. I loved the mix of people. But all in all, the best were those community groups that received modest grants and now the training is about them selecting one among them who is literate and we go through how to record and expenses....the very very basics!!

I was motivated to write about it but got caught up and shelved the idea

Now that am back to writing, i should also revive this!

KPIs....how best to track?

Trying to do my own KPIs for 2016 and got to reading some interesting material online... one article clearly put it that non profits are 'notoriously lofty and vague' in the way they write about what they plan to do and actually do!! That was funny - and they way I thought we were pretty clear!!

I think i will do a paper on KPIs for non profits in Kenya!! That would make for interesting research - let me give myself till August to write a paper on this!!

So thats my challenge for 2016 - so help me God!