Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Keep in mind that learning organizations are those that prioritize the development of – people – everyone comes to work every day in part to grow, and to support one another in doing so. The dreaded F-word: How to make sure your team doesn’t fear (or rely on) feedback. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Getting an MBA takes time and money, making it inaccessible to many people who want to take charge in the business world. This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2019

Gamification means adding game elements, such as points or rewards, to your fundraising model. You’ll want people to make donations on the fly, send campaign updates, and be able to manage their campaigns easily through their mobile devices. Use gamification and leaderboards.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Major event tickets Major annual events are bucket list items for many people, but that also makes tickets hard to come by. Tech basket Many people prioritize keeping up with the latest tech releases or having the best new gadgets. million people are expected to set sail on a cruise in 2024—6% more than the pre-pandemic year of 2019.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Boulder and seeing the winter beauty of the place right after a big snowfall as well as of connecting with many people excited about social impact. Laura DeLuca’s class on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. We mainly commiserated about the challenges of the app business model!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I Sponsor, Sponsor, Sponsor!

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

One in particular that piqued my interest was Mindful Design , a new framework that supports the intentions of people using our products and services instead of pushing our own agendas—making purposeful design decisions that actually help people. When I was starting out as a professional designer, David Carson was a celebrity.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 7, 2024

She’s the author of the bestseller Philanthropy Revolution and is ready to guide charities to a new mindset that sees donors as people, not sources of revenue. A subscription-based model is one trend that nonprofits can take from the private sector. Of course, in the nonprofit world, a subscription model is a recurring giving program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

That’s why peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns do so well – people want to give to their friends, or their friends’ friends, and rally around their loved ones. Each of these popular items can be sold and redeemed online: Fitness or cooking classes. Start crowdfunding with birthday fundraisers. Personal training sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. Here’s an overview the tips and resources I shared. Don’t wing it alone. Use Zoom breakout rooms.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 23, 2020

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is how the traditional development model puts up a lot of barriers to engagement. In fact, this was something that came up in the Office Hours call with the Master Class students last week. The traditional development model uses what’s called a ladder of engagement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

With this 360-degree visibility into people, funds, and outcomes, an organization can make better decisions that drive bigger impact. Tom Leddy, Customer Success at Salesforce.org: Many people who work in the industry will tell you that no two nonprofits are ever exactly alike. Assess Your Data & Map it to Your New Model.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

O ur Intelligence for Good® approach combines licensed and proprietary data assets, world-class industry data science expertise, advanced machine-learning techniques, and robust analytic methodologies – all optimized to drive your mission impact. . It’s no longer sufficient to hold data – a best-in-class database is just table stakes.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

It’s not a business model. . Develop an evaluation and performance model. . Establish a logic model and identify inputs, outputs, activities, and intended outcomes. . Here are a few mistakes people make when starting a nonprofit. Want to get started with an affordable, world-class donor database?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

By Jess Woloszyn , Content Specialist at Classy.org – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. People tend to take more immediate action on these platforms, so provide them with a direct path to give.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Being from a Support mindset, the best way to help as many people as possible is to help those that help others. Coming into the association space as a developer eventually shifted into combining my technical skills with my people and business understanding and becoming an Applications Analyst and several other roles. The culture!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 15, 2021

It represents people who are making measurable differences in communities and those whose lives are being changed. . The Urban Institute’s Insights Depend on Best-in-Class Data Management. But for mission-driven organizations, data is more than numbers; it is the story of their impact. The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based,

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

Chris will continue Classy’s track record of creating world-class technology to serve the social sector. . A: It’s not often you find a company where great people and technology serve thousands of nonprofits who make the world a better place every day, but I’ve been lucky to be a part of the Classy journey for a while now. .

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The cumulative revenue of the donors acquired in the “class of FY18” is over $1.1 A list model is a potent tool many organizations use to find new donors, and it’s often much easier and cheaper than most organizations realize. After a certain amount of time, people forget they gave to you. Compare this to the cost to acquire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Over the past two decades of teaching workshops to nonprofits on the use of technology for mission-driven work and more recently on the use of online networks and data, people come workshops with different degrees of organizational readiness to embrace change that is needed to be successful.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Over 300 million people are using crypto, and globally that number has nearly doubled every year. To understand what that means for nonprofits, look at how people search for donation options. Why do people donate crypto? Crypto giving is flipping that traditional giving model. The crypto market today is over $1 trillion.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Stable Diffusion’s AI model is much more flexible to use real people’s names and images in its renderings. . Media Cause employs talented, world-class designers who can illustrate or mock-up just about any concept you can think of. A lot of people are talking about it right now. What does AI art mean for designers?

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds. But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. Here’s a unique model of nonprofit board governance based in consensus. ︎

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

The end goal is getting the right content in front of the right people at the right time so that they are more likely to open, click, and become informed,” said Thrailkill. . We’ve been sending short surveys and checklists to help students plan for upcoming semesters, send reminders to register for classes, etc.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 5, 2019

Part of how we do this is with our Starting a Nonprofit class , offered each quarter, for folks who think (or know) that a nonprofit is the best way to help a cause they care about. That’s why we write ad nauseam about things like earned income revenue models, treating your nonprofit like a business , leadership transitions and culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The model is called “SAVI” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. California Passes New Law That Bans Bots From Pretending to Real People: California Gov. You can watch the YouTube presentation or read the takeaways here.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Who are these people we talked with? In-person engagement is great, but you only reach the people who are standing there with you.”. It’s a good way for me to be a little bit more accessible for people who live out of town before they commit. Information technologies and social media are here to stay.

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See3

JANUARY 13, 2009

The other thing that impressed me about Flashpoint was that they do not simply do student work and then send people out for internships. Flashpoint graduates their first class this May and I think we can say for certain that we can expect great things from them and from the classes that follow. Link [ Flashpoint Academy ].

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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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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. The staff speakers are an important element of the calls’ success.

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

There is no better way to drive our mission forward than to invest in the people doing the hard work. It is not lost on me that women and people of color have historically been, and still are, paid a fraction of what their white male counterparts make. There are two reasons in particular that nonprofits often underpay their employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. YES YES YES YES YES @davegray “People don’t learn from spreadsheets, predictions, and plans, they learn from making things” #NeXConf. Diversity correlates with innovation?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

Tech solutions combined with forward-thinking, inspired, and innovative community leaders like Gita Rampersad, vice president of healthcare partnerships and nutrition at Feeding America, and Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), offer a model for how to tackle complex issues. About the Author.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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