Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The better you can articulate how you can hit the ground running and will be a problem solver, not a problem creator, the better your chances of getting hired. What are the most important things to keep in mind in the first day, week, month, and year on the job? What metrics will you be evaluated against?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The better you can articulate how you can hit the ground running and will be a problem solver, not a problem creator, the better your chances of getting hired. What are the most important things to keep in mind in the first day, week, month, and year on the job? What metrics will you be evaluated against?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

The better you can articulate how you can hit the ground running and will be a problem solver, not a problem creator, the better your chances of getting hired. What are the most important things to keep in mind in the first day, week, month, and year on the job? What metrics will you be evaluated against?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. Keep the best interests of the donor in mind and you won’t have any need to feel yucky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters. WORD STORM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

A theory of change is a specific and measurable description of a social change initiative that forms the basis for strategic planning, on-going decision-making and evaluation. It requires stakeholders to articulate underlying assumptions which can be tested and measured, and it also charts an incremental path towards results.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Through stories, people can speak out their minds, share wisdom, and pass information to others. The first step of generating a good story is to articulate your goals. Evaluate your Campaign. Evaluation is the last step which is very crucial in determining whether your storytelling campaign is working as you intended.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Here are a few tips to keep in mind when doing so: Recognize that branding goes far beyond choosing a logo and color palette. When you think of powerful nonprofit brands, what comes to mind? With these big plans in mind, it’s crucial to create a brand that can withstand the test of time. Positioning.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

With a deep focus on results and sophisticated technology built to match, we see foundations growing their outcomes measurement maturity and shifting how they evaluate grants, from applications through reporting. After all, the best data scientists are also great storytellers.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

How does your nonprofit stack up against competitors or like-minded organizations? If you’re struggling to articulate your objectives, consider partnering with a nonprofit marketing consultant early in your market research process. What motivated donors to make their first donation to your nonprofit?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Most people don’t write grants with this in mind. Step #3) A – Articulate the goal(s) of a grant An A rticulate goal is the main aim that will result because of your program and will solve your problem statement. Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. These are N arrowed objectives.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this article, we’ll cover things to consider when evaluating the safety of your event, share some resources, and provide best practices on how to develop your plan. At Qgiv, we guide our work by keeping our core values top of mind, and one of those values is empathy. Not sold yet? Here’s why you should be!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Keep in mind the following points from speakers Brooke Hansel of Blackbaud, Merrie Beth Nauman of Ocean Conservancy, and Lisa Tacker of Two Ten Footwear Foundation: . Have you taken the time to clearly articulate your desired impact , and the outcomes or indicators you’ll need to monitor to see your progress toward that goal?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2016

The pillars range from leadership to management to evaluation for mission effectiveness. High-performance cultures are innovative cultures, mindful that every program and process eventually becomes data, even obsolete. Senior management creates the conditions for staff members to feel safe acknowl- edging when there are problems.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

With this in mind, I’ll be conducting a three part fundraising series on the core principles to acquire, retain , and upgrade your donors. Number three, how do we articulate and communicate our impact to others? Number four, how do we evaluate our impact? Number one, how do we define our impact?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I was physically still tired, but my mind was racing. The evening closed with an inspirational speech from a board member who articulated our story and our vision for the future perfectly. The main reason my mind was racing when I woke up was that the work for the event was not over. Sleep was no longer an option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs. When you’ve been doing what you do for a long time, it is also about unlearning (being mindful when bad habits creep in and changing them) and relearning what you have learned or updating it or reinventing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. The only way to evolve is through implementing a series of social media measurement pilots and small data wins. Keep the end in mind when agreeing to how experiments will be structured, run, and measured.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet. Tim Anderson tackles an issue I've troubled over in the back of my mind but never quite articulated. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Take the time to assess your operations and evaluate any gaps that volunteer work could fill. A volunteer recruitment letter is a more formal way of soliciting volunteers, but you can have your current volunteers personalize them for the prospects they have in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Defined Audience. Communicating the results.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

From the little I know about evaluation, it seems that most museum folks focus on what visitors come out saying--not what they come out asking. Some simple thoughts: Present stories and situations where the characters change their minds. This doesn't just apply to issues exhibitions. Questions keep the door open.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. Keep in mind that many visitors will evaluate your website in seconds. Nonprofit and association website design is often understood subconsciously.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. 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. . We’re going to do a little intro. . no, no, no.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. This is particularly true when it comes to project evaluation. T]he sticking point in everyone’s mind is that what you proposed was not an artwork.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. In past postings Ive shared Marriotts core values.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And let me turn it back to Sarah for a little icebreaker, with that in mind. So what we’d like to ask of you is just use the chat, and you all are already great at that, share some words that come to mind for you when you think about engaging younger people with your nonprofit organization. And listening with an open mind.

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