Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Don’t just manage people, coach your people. Many people realized during the discovery process that these new working norms were more efficient in certain areas of their organization, while also consistently seeking feedback and ideas from team members. Generate and bring positive energy daily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. This goes beyond wellness in the workplace, but embraces how people do their work together that is sustainable. It isn’t just about the tools, but about how people need to work and think differently.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. Centering audiences more broadly means hearing people who aren’t like us. People will not like you. Some people will not ever like you. People took the class they wanted and left us.

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Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

Given this, articulating your mission can help fuel your peer-to-peer campaigns, which means it’s time for you. People are much more likely to engage with your posts when it’s clear what you’re asking them to do. Millennial Impact Report. volunteer fundraisers to brush up on your storytelling abilities. . Clear calls-to-action (CTAs).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

Don’t just manage people, coach your people. Many people realized during the discovery process that these new working norms were more efficient in certain areas of their organization, while also consistently seeking feedback and ideas from team members. Generate and bring positive energy daily.

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Culture Build Impact Lesson 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

To work every day with and for some of the most inspiring and passionate people dedicated to building a stronger Arizona was a dream come true. Wow, ten years passed, and here we are in 2015: social enterprise is the rage, the boomer retirement wave is a concern, and people are talking about nonprofits operating like businesses.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2017

I think many of us are pretty clear that inclusion simply means to not exclude people on the basis of gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, etc. If people of different groups don't feel comfortable at your office, then they aren't going to share their ideas and contribute in the way that will most help your organization.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I know that time flies, but it seems like it was just yesterday that I was sitting in my 7th grade creative writing class and saw what felt like the world come tumbling down. Why Designing Your Nonprofit Culture is Do or Die is about sharing values, a defined mission and vision, and valuing your people. The iphone 5c was introduced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I teach a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space. I also had was a guest lecturer for a Berkeley MBA Class on networks and New School for Public Engagement.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Align with the goals of the organization and people you serve . Data doesn’t just allow organizations to create profiles of the people you serve, it also serves as a bridge to extremely valuable impact measurement. Know your audience . Foster a data culture, and a testing culture .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. You need to find what works for you to shift you into that mindset. So is creativity.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 1, 2007

They want the journals and publications, the professional seminars, the reduced prices on publications or classes. Members join primarily to offer financial support to the organization, although a well designed program will offer benefits or premiums that help to draw people in. But it also includes groups like JCCs and YMCAs.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. People are busy around the holidays. Don’t choose something long and complex that people are bound to forget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2021

A good place to start is by making sure that our communications and branding fulfill one or more of the following goals: Move people to a specific action. Motivate people to donate. ALYN is a world-class hospital in Israel dedicated to the rehabilitation of permanently and temporarily disabled children. ALYN Hospital.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

People who sprint too early in a marathon rarely succeed. See also this book about DEAI work from Sara Taylor (of deepSEE), Filter Shift: How Effective People See the World , that the Alliance is giving to all the Facing Change museum board members as a tool during the program. For transgender people, this number goes up to 77%.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

posted by Sadhna Bokhiria Class 11 American Express Leadership Academy Chief Operating Officer of Kapoor Foundations. With the ability to take classes online from some of the most prominent institutions in the world, I was enrolled in tons of classes and getting a lot of great education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

While the last ag censuses showed an increase in the number of small farms, and most of those farms are owned by people that are younger, which is great, we still need many, many more producers of food products in order to relocalize and regionalize our food systems in the U.S. It would be a lot of people. It stops at a certain point.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our team articulately expressed direct, succinct truths that required no editing. Technology just happens to be a great way to get to scale, to create leverage to re-invent the way people are doing business throughout the social sector. Quality: building a great technology tool or doing science to world-class standards.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. Writes all the time for lots of different people, not just Bloomerang. Nearly 70% of people make gifts to charity during their lifetimes but only 6% leave a bequest. Claire: Okay. Why is that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve Williams: POWER stands for "People Organized to Win Employment Rights" and we are a membership organization of low-wage workers and tenants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Now that Clay??? easily represented.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So what we’re seeing is a shrinking of the middle class that historically provided the base, the backbone of most donor programs. . But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

Donors gravitate toward different opportunities (infrastructure, people, endowments, etc.) Nonprofit executives are charged with keeping a 30,000-foot view of the organization, and in that sense, they seem best-positioned to articulate what your organization is about. and the statements need to address that diversity of interest.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

I seem to spend inordinate amounts of time responding to people (proprietary software vendors, to be specific) harping on the idea that “open source software is free&# is a myth , and blathering on about how it’s not really free, because you have to hire a geek to install it, and maintain it, and blah blah blah. 3 AJ 07.16.08

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Let''s say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience. There are expectations around what people wear, what they can and can''t do, and how they relate to each other that may be comfortable for whites while feeling alien for people who don''t grow up in a white culture.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Let's say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience. There are expectations around what people wear, what they can and can't do, and how they relate to each other that may be comfortable for whites while feeling alien for people who don't grow up in a white culture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

It's very simple to calculate: you take the total operating expenses for your public-facing efforts and divide by the number of people who walk through the door. Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language. Their well-organized photo gallery page makes great use of space and showcases a variety of their efforts. Mission page.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Many people mentioned the intelligent design/evolution debate, raising examples of angry homeschoolers and religious groups. Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. It let her know that people were reading it and cared. Why do homeless people smell bad?”

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

a recently released analysis of American giving patterns, these gifts are coming from fewer people. Whether politically motivated or not, a clear trend is emerging: People across the country are looking for more effective ways to bring about the kind of change they’d like to see, and the. Giving USA. The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2011

But the filter bubble reduces the opportunities for online serendipity, we just keep bumping into the people, organizations, ideas that we already know. The “ Vote NO on 8 ” campaign sought to defeat a November 2010 ballot proposition that would have led to larger K-12 class sizes in Florida public schools.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

This is because race-neutral alternatives, including class/income, have not proven to be as efficacious in addressing disparities. Will charitable foundations shy away from making grants designed to advance racial justice and racial equity or efforts to fund community-based organizations led by people of color?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, NAS brought 25 people (including me) to Washington to discuss what issues might be appropriate to cover in the report, which is at least 3 years from hitting the press (assuming it receives funding). How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? The six topics are: How do you plan for the future?

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