Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training, and pay increases.

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Forum One

AUGUST 11, 2022

This year, we were happy to continue our partnership with the Posse Foundation to recruit from a diverse group of talented students.Over the past two months, they seamlessly blended into the Forum One team and gained valuable hands-on experience along the way. Building a Network. Meet our 2022 summer interns!

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Grant writing tip: While the task of writing a proposal often falls on the shoulders of a project manager or grant writer, anyone—even an outside consultant—with the proper skills could write the proposal. These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” . New Earth Foundation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2019

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Why the Nonprofit Work Ethic Is Outdated and Needs Change ,” about why nonprofit professionals need to pay attention to self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. (The Flexible start time so staff can bike to work, workout, etc.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

Over the years, I have worked with many founder-led (or until-recently-founder-led) organizations. For staff, working in a start-up nonprofit is often an exercise in mindreading. You may frequently revise the work plan, despite staff reluctance or resistance. Stepping away is part of the nonprofit circle of life.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training, and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2013

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2012

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Research shows that there is high turnover as employees experience burnout from a lack of work-life balance, fair compensation and career growth opportunities. This sector faces the challenge of having limited funding to support their employees and mission, which can lead to work-related stress and burnout.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2016

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training, and pay increases.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Finance leaders should be able to calculate the projected ROI of their decisions—to make the business case for every hardware purchase and software subscription, report on the impact of those investments, and evaluate the need for upgrades or new technologies on an ongoing basis.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

The planning, preparation, execution and blend of multi-generational activities really comes together to make a community impact. A participation goal (either trying to achieve a specific number of donors or gifts) seems to work best. Create a clear work plan or communications calendar. Planning a Giving Day is a lot of work!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 9, 2013

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 20, 2012

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 28, 2013

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Enter the AI 2-minute rule, a blend of GTD and AI tech that expands the window of quick tasks that can be done to unblock yourself and your team. Organize : Once you have clarified each item, organize them into projects and next actions. Organize : Once you have clarified each item, organize them into projects and next actions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It encompass mindset and ways of working which can be used to exercise new power despite whatever platform or tool is available to us. How do you blend?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. • Sometimes it was through company organized volunteer projects. Employees were challenged and rewarded through growth opportunities, education and training and pay increases.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. Project Management. OpenProject is a web-based project management system designed to help dispersed teams collaborate on projects of varying scope. Image 1 : Blended Images / Shutterstock.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Something about the way Farra presented, answered questions and described the campaigns she worked on stuck with me. I got up the nerve to introduce myself to her and we chatted a bit about our Cover Your Butt campaign which was similar to a campaign she worked on for a breast cancer organization. She got it. Let's Raise a Brand!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

Many funders, including individual donors, are averse to funding these indirect costs, preferring to support direct program expenses: food for hungry people, medical care for the sick, and childcare for working parents. Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge, 2. Grantor agencies also eschew funding these necessary expenses.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In this case, they’re directly relating the work they do to the immediate need for relief efforts in Puerto Rico. From the bright color scheme to the punny tagline, this page is the perfect example of blending a bit of humor with perfectly executed design for a great donation page. Reproductive Health Access Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development. It isn’t enough to read an article about a leadership skill, it is also important to practice it as part of doing your work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum. And that brings us to CamClickr.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. His project, Is It Necessary? blends sculpture, repetition, and ritual performance in a political statement about the genocide of animals in factory farms. He smashes a sculpture of an animal.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. OUTSIDE IN Before the Abbott Square project, I approached planning from an internally-driven perspective. We develop the ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.” ” Widad E.

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