Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. Wiens also discovered during her research that people with burnout immunity have a special relationship with stress. I wanted to understand one big question – why do some people get burned out and others do not?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the past I have been guilty of launching into end of year fundraising without reflecting upon the previous year. It is true, the way individuals gave last year was a different, with online giving growing by 21% year over year ( 2020 Charitable Giving Report, Blackbaud ). Your donor should and will look different.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Completely Opposite Viewpoint Debates : a form of strategic conversation that requires leaders to engage with diverse viewpoints, sometimes unwelcome ideas, and a wider range of radically different options before setting a strategic agenda. Be prepared to transform your attitude, mindset and habits to break against the status quo.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Completely Opposite Viewpoint Debates : a form of strategic conversation that requires leaders to engage with diverse viewpoints, sometimes unwelcome ideas, and a wider range of radically different options before setting a strategic agenda. Be prepared to transform your attitude, mindset and habits to break against the status quo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. It is using private goods for social good reasons. Rob started off with some observations about the young people he sees in his business school classes. The New Social Economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

While we were busy catching up on sleep, we also spent a lot of time reflecting on the experience. Getting to know so many wonderful people in the non-profit sector - it simply amazes me everyone's so passionate about what they are doing! We’re thrilled that the NTC is a place for you to find your people.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Sudden cynical attitude about the job, company, or working conditions . A: If people aren’t well, their quality of work diminishes. If your people are burnt out, your organization is burnt out, and that directly impacts your morale, culture, and ability to serve your communities. Exhaustion, lower moods, anxiety, or depression.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

One thing is for sure: people all over the world are truly missing the unique and soulful experience of attending a festival. A music festival, food festival, or cultural festival, to name a few, can bring people together in some of the best ways. . People can stay in their vehicles and watch films.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

It's an interesting idea and I'd love to talk to people or organizations that have used it - have you? Reflections on America’s Giving Challenge - Did you follow or participate in the America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation? Check out the evaluation report from Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. "The

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

The pioneering, pull-no-punches Simone Joyaux , who passed away too soon on Sunday May 2, 2021, understood this well before people were talking about it. And your attitude will be contagious. When people are presented with something novel they don’t understand, a natural tendency is to ignore it. It takes a village.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 9, 2012

The field" is hundreds or thousands of miles away, and it's hard for me to see that I’m "making a difference" when sitting behind a computer all day. I love getting to know them personally while hosting them in our office, and their attitudes remind me that my job is a privilege. Bush's "Reflections of a Nonprofit Heart".

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

This night is just one of many things we’ve done in the organization to help create an attitude of gratitude. Over the years, people drift in and out of our organization as life happens. Because we call these “kudos” we typically hand out Kudos granola bars, or a different sweet snack. Live the Attitude Everyday.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We often hear about the doing good movement in the context of millennials , and oftentimes Gen Z’ers, two generations that have demonstrated substantial shifts in attitude surrounding the belief in their own power to create positive change in the world. Imagery can also be static or show movement based on the desired action from the donor.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2018

To generate ideas for a tagline, start by asking yourselves a few questions to see if the answers point to a solution: Why should people donate money to your organization? Go beyond the immediate problem that your team solves and look to the big-picture challenges that grab people emotionally. Make people think—but not too much.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

One thing is for sure: people all over the world are truly missing the unique and soulful experience of attending a festival. A music festival, food festival, or cultural festival, to name a few, can bring people together in some of the best ways. . People can stay in their vehicles and watch films.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. What is the difference? There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Example of A/B Testing Results. It comes down to organizational culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold. This generated a good discussion allowing for expression of different points of view. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It was very exciting to finally meet people on the In-Country Leadership Teams face-to-face. I was also impressed by the energy in a room with twenty people who have a networked mindset, leadership skills, and social media expertise. Interest in people. What are the opportunities for reciprocity? World Travelers. Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

What roles do different organizations play? The report identifies metrics to measure progress around this these questions – it asks and answers – “What exactly are the right metrics for today? They should how people, organizations, and movements have been altered through the collective efforts. Civic engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

happen in different locations several times a year and for the past three years, these meetings have taken place after the annual NTC: Nonprofit Technology Conference. A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. How to bring new people up to speed. Penguin Days.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2012

state of grantseeking for different types of organizations. Arts, culture, and humanities- focused organizations comprise 10% of nonprofit organizations in the United States and 11% of the State of Grantseeking 2011 survey participants, so it wasn’t as if this survey inaccurately reflects the attitudes of these groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

These thoughts changed how I moved, and dance became a self-conscious, self-critical experience, which was a bigger reflection on how I lived life and viewed myself within it. When I first started teaching dance fitness, I approached it with a more serious attitude, as I had found my strength studying martial arts. And, myself.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Why should institutions engage with people in this way? It looks different in different types of institutions.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

This forces us to create systems to deepen relationships with people that are fans of what we do, rather than just treating them as ‘the public’ or ‘our constituents.’ Second, genuinely respect and honor your donors and the difference that they make in the world. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Chew ‘em up.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

The Science Center World Congress looked standard in makeup--keynotes, plenaries, parallel panels--and yet the content was made distinctly different by the people involved. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Diverse Goals.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Anecdotally and intuitively, you know that changing demographics and technology are driving a shift in your engagement with donors, volunteers, event participants and other people your organization relies on to fulfill your mission. Yeah, more people to do fundraising solicitations! " The report of my death was an exaggeration."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

We all have problems getting in the door—they’re just different doors. Cultural icons serve many important purposes, but these, I have reluctantly begun to realize, may be quite different from, and perhaps mutually exclusive with, museums focused on community well-being. It seems like they're about objects, not people.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Why should institutions engage with people in this way? It looks different in different types of institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Now that we have 5,000 Facebook friends, how we can get them to make a difference on the ground?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. The report, which focused on Cincinnati, found that the common arguments for public support for the arts don't hold up for most people. Why force everyone else to do it?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 6, 2010

Linda helps people get clear about what they want and helps them move toward it. The key to your success is in what you think about, in what you say to yourself and others, in what you believe, and in what your attitudes are about yourself and others. I think you’ll enjoy this! We create what we think about.

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