Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The new book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

The new book, Thrive With A Hybrid Workplace , provides a way forward to understand the changing world of work, to dispense of old biases, and to establish trust between the enterprise, its leaders, and its employees. Develop a thoughtful approach to hybrid work that is consistent with your organization’s core values. Kantor, PhD.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

Include information about the time commitment, necessary skills, and any specific training required. Develop a recruitment strategy that targets the ideal volunteer demographics. Training and Orienting Volunteers Once you’ve put together the perfect mix of volunteer roles, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get started.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

At the end of the day, it is the experience of ourselves and our colleagues that make the difference between industry acceptance and being just another small fish in the industry pond. Sit down with department heads and obtain the commitment to developing your workforce. Establishing a formal policy of Continuous Learning.

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Volunteer Hub

JUNE 28, 2022

Your volunteer onboarding process should include standardized training, help cultivate meaningful connections, and reinforce why your organization does what it does through its mission. The best way to future-proof your volunteer program is by adapting to the needs and expectations of volunteers that provide their time.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

This is a question I broached in “ What Will a Post-COVID Nonprofit Economy Reveal ? ” We looked at problems associated with “status quo” management and thinking. And the difference between “iteration” and “innovation.” We are witnessing the rise of a new generation of donors and nonprofit employees. — Brian Solis.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

The new book, The Empathy Advantage , speaks to anyone with responsibility for recruiting, engaging, leading and retaining the next generation of workers – a workforce shaped by the pandemic that fundamentally transformed the relationship between individuals and organizations. Fortunately, book authors Heather C.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

Brad: Nancy, what a pleasure to talk with you today about this groundbreaking partnership between the Packard Foundation and Candid. The first option was to build our own bespoke tool, where we could ask the exact questions we wanted with tailored data visualization tools. Also, why do this now?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions. Set a SMART goal.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. But we need different ways to learn at different points in our professional careers.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit’s mission is the foundation of everything you do. It’s your north star, your guiding principle, and your roadmap to changing the world. Your nonprofit mission statement is how you communicate your organization’s impact to supporters, clients, and the community at large. All right, let’s get started.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

Integrating data and analytics into your organizational culture can be a huge hurdle to overcome. So you work at Nonprofit XYZ and increasingly you hear about other organizations' success in utilizing Google Analytics to increase impact. Worried about being left behind, you bring it up at your next staff meeting, and you're surprised!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This week brings the new book, The Mindfulness Edge , a fascinating manual that teaches you how through mindfulness training you can become a better leader. Mindfulness training also helps leaders to make decisions that have better impacts on gross margins and expenses," explains the book's author Tenney.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Subsequent action steps are grouped according to your level of fundraising development: Getting Started, Advancement (somewhere further along), and Going from Good to Great. In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Corporate giving isn’t just about writing checks; it’s a strategic partnership between businesses and nonprofits to transform communities. As we delve into the CSR trends shaping the nonprofit sector, we’ll explore why these developments are relevant to nonprofits and corporate social responsibility (CSR) directors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Other areas include: communications, executive transition, evaluation/learning, networking/convening, and professional development. 2: Culture Change. The guide provides some good diagnostic questions as well as two excellent examples of how to understand organizational culture.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You were the executive director, development officer, marketing manager, and HR department, all rolled into one. HR is the department responsible for managing hiring, onboarding, training, and benefits. As a smaller organization, perhaps your nonprofit started with just you. After all, your nonprofit is practically run like a business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked! I do not speak Spanish.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The other day I attended an information session for a new initiative centered around increasing diversity in design. It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause. Join OUR system.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Elizabeth, I’ve got 2:30 Eastern officially. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If you put your question in there, it might have a little bit more visibility. But no matter where you ask that question, we’ll see it, and we will try to get to it before the 4:00 Eastern hour here. But no matter where you ask that question, we’ll see it, and we will try to get to it before the 4:00 Eastern hour here.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

As cultural institutions, we are a “field” competing against “industries”—gaming, movie, TV, and amusement—that have the money to spend on weapons of mass audience engagement. As programmers of events and performances, collectors of things, and producers of content, our main business seems to be a battle for the attention of our audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

The model works well because it helps organization identify incremental improvements and build their capacity. We started with doing the assessment in the social media measurement peer group to answer these three questions: What level of social media practice is your nonprofit? Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Through the Google Ad Grants program , nonprofits everywhere can leverage pay-per-click (PPC) marketing for free. Google gives eligible nonprofits $10,000 monthly to spend on its paid advertising platform. By amplifying content on Google Search, participating organizations can connect with motivated prospects searching for their causes online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

So I share with you first-hand experiences of the dynamic relationship between the board of directors and the executive director. You achieve this by developing an amazing onboarding process. If you don’t have a well-trained board, they can actually go rogue or even get in your way of progress. Help your board help you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

You can read more here ) Later, they worked with Fedex to develop the first hybrid truck. The Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a grantee organization and also attended the Packard Foundation's recent Network Effectiveness Convening by the Monitor Institute in Washington, DC in May.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Question And Answer with Jesse Sostrin author of Beyond the Job Description Question : What does the title of your book mean and what’s the truth about what employers really expect that is never written in job descriptions? Question : How can employees discover the true demands or “double reality” of their job?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Q and A with Jesse Sostrin author of Beyond the Job Description Question : What does the title of your book mean and what’s the truth about what employers really expect that is never written in job descriptions? Question : How can employees discover the true demands or “double reality” of their job?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Thomas Alva Edison held 1,093 patents for different inventions. Thomas Alva Edison held 1,093 patents for different inventions. In his question to create the storage battery, he conducted 10,000 experiments before arriving at a method that worked. However, not everything he created was a success; he also had many failures.

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