Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Other key lessons from sports coaches include these says Mayberry: Develop a burning desire to improve culture.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a lifetime, we spend approximately 90,000 hours working. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. There’s a reason they call it work. Let’s make joy a priority.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It’s a good idea to include people from outside your organization’s playing field who can introduce a different point of view and push the group forward.” I’ve often thought that the model could work effectively in an association environment.” Value Talent Put people on the team who contribute to the culture.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Articulate the Vision Writing the diversity statement can be a co-creative activity. We strive to include diversity, equity, and inclusion practices at the center of our daily work. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. LIVE UNITED Approved by the United Way U.S.A.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. Be sure to ask stakeholders in different departments. Improved efficiency that will reduce manual work, optimize processes and eliminate redundancy. Ask your colleagues questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Brainstorming is very useful for staff meetings to generate ideas for different programs or campaigns. It can also be used to create work norms or processes. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This section of the report covers new ways of thinking about organizational culture based in continuous improvement based on feedback. It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Cultural Indicators.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Last year also brought with it civil unrest, a rise in the call for social justice, and decentering of white supremacy culture. Organizations should also articulate the particular characteristics and leadership traits needed for different types of crises within their plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

What is the difference? It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The challenge has to do with organizational beliefs and work styles. Whether it be a widely held belief that measurement practice is not worth investing resources.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2022

She has been both volunteer and activist for organizations working on human rights, poverty elimination, non-violence, and cultural exchange. Her passions are community-building and behavioral psychology, and so she is excited to be working at their crossroads in nonprofit technology. Highlight new initiatives and.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. This year one thing I am doing for myself is exploring fountain pens and working on calligraphy. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing.

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Kindful

APRIL 5, 2021

Do people in your community know who you are, but have trouble articulating what your mission is? For this type of video, you should interview people within your organization who can properly articulate what it is you do. You should also make sure you show B-roll footage of your organization at work! Story and mission video.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

So you work at Nonprofit XYZ and increasingly you hear about other organizations' success in utilizing Google Analytics to increase impact. it is just too much work when no one is supporting your efforts. Integrating data and analytics into your organizational culture can be a huge hurdle to overcome. So, what next?

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It may also be a bit intimidating—creating work we are proud of that WOWs our team or client and checks off all needs can be challenging. . This means making it relevant and culturally appropriate. . Each color conveys something different. To learn more about our design work, click here. Understand the client’s vision.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

I’m starting to really appreciate the difference between being an individual agent and creating a culture of agency. And increasingly, what I’m trying to enable is a culture of experimentation. I’m not even sure a “culture of change” is a meaningful concept or one that could be sustained over an extended period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to the calendar, we’re supposed to start counting our blessings around Thanksgiving and work our way up to total and complete joy by New Year’s Eve. So how do you go about creating a culture of personal gratitude for yourself and for your organization? Your unique gifts and talents mean that your path will be different.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. It’s a remarkably ineffective way of working for an industry built on numbers. . “We Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. You should also do this with donors at different levels.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 17, 2021

The excitement in some cases may even override one’s decision-making process when determining if this inquiry can work. For that work in volunteer management or development, this opportunity could just be the foot in the door to a promising long-term relationship. Or is the employee inquiring from the grassroots level of the company?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Both have worked for homeless services agencies, ironically in the same type of work – fundraising and communications. And they both feel passionately about working with organizations and people to shine a light on homelessness, tell those stories, and help people. There is one key difference.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Nonetheless, many others recognize the value of such a commitment and show up as allies and in solidarity for the work of social change, while also sitting with the discomfort, dissonance, and truth required for such change. Has the organization’s policies, practices, and overall culture been evaluated through the lens of a JEDI approach? .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I can still feel the weight of my pencil as the TVs were turned off and I was encouraged to keep working. You work on a daily basis to protect, preserve, educate, eradicate, advocate, evangelize, and serve (just to name a few). Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: It’s not about the clothes you wear. Or free sodas.

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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. When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. .”

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

But there is also another kind of transparency: the kind that emerges from a cultural shift. Constant access to information is the new norm, and nonprofits and their stakeholders are not exempt from this cultural shift. 4 Benefits of a Culture of Transparency. So, there is this kind of transparency: the kind that is mandated.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Work backward from the end goal. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? What would you do differently if you could redo the first years of your career? You’ll learn how to: Build and sustain relationships while working remotely. Think like an owner.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Work backward from the end goal. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? What would you do differently if you could redo the first years of your career? You’ll learn how to: Build and sustain relationships while working remotely. Think like an owner.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Work backward from the end goal. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? What would you do differently if you could redo the first years of your career? You’ll learn how to: Build and sustain relationships while working remotely. Think like an owner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I also write a list of work habits that I want to maintain or modify. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2018

OFBYFOR ALL is a framework to help civic and cultural organizations become OF, BY, and FOR their communities. We're launching it with partners at community-based libraries, parks, museums, and cultural centers around the world. Our contexts are different. Our contexts are different. Our organizations are different.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2017

In this post I would like to share my thinking around the importance of demonstrating to the grantmaker that your organization reaches out to, and includes, varying cultures. Both our boards and our staff, not to mention our membership, need to reflect the cultures of the communities where we work and live.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

At Media Cause, we work with nonprofits of all shapes and sizes, focused on raising awareness and driving donations for their specific causes. A brand guidelines document is a set of rules and standards defending the use of different components of your brand. ” back in the early 2010s, no one understood why a brand was important.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

Q: What led you to working at a community foundation? A: To be honest, I was resistant to working for an organization that I had considered unapproachable and to a degree, exclusive. A: The reprioritization to meet partner needs due to COVID-19 was a test of our adaptability, a major component of our cultural ethos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I am no stranger to family diversity having adopted two children and being of different cultures and races.) The film helps kids see and understand that families can different shapes today. That's a different issue and you definitely need to use a spam filter. What does your comment moderation work flow look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Regularly collects data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people. Organizational Culture. Articulating measurable goals.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I spent last week holed up in a cabin, working on my forthcoming book, The Art of Relevance. One of the most powerful books I read while doing research was We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence ( read it free here , great appreciation to Bob Janes for sharing it with us). But not to keep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The power of social media is that it is easier than ever to both articulate, and reinforce, the vision and values that create and inspire alignment,’ said Benioff. panel on “The innovation culture: Four Entrepreneurs’ Perspective,” in talking about her views on the Silicon Valley culture. A is for alignment.

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