Saving log - $2 tip box
Spending log - $10 lunch + $10 toiletry drive
When you work at a non-profit, you can get yourself into odd positions. Today I helped to save us quite a bit of coin (about 12K) during our busy season by "hiring" an internal staffer part time.
The odd part is that its our Director of General Accounting.
It turns out that General Accounting's very slow season is Nov, Dec, Jan, and Feb. You can only refine your procedures for so long, the Director said, so they approached us to help out because that's our hot time & we take in pledges, money and data. It seems a natural.
I figure that its worth a try because while my workload is more than one person, it really isn't enough for another whole person full time - an internal person has their own gig, so part time a few hours three days/week should catch me up; accounting is very close to what we do so we only have to re-invent the rim, not the whole wheel; easy to contact the internal person; has a greater stake in doing the job correctly because the internal person will feel the effects.
Its just going to be very odd bossing around a director. Treating my helper as a volunteer seems the best approach. She shares a trait with me - finds it much much easier to do than to teach. But I did teach her a bit about what I do a couple of months and she found it interesting. Day one is already done in a sense.
We have a toiletry drive - I forgot to pick up a few things so I put $10 for the parallel collection.
saved some, spent some
September 10th, 2008 at 04:12 am