Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the book, Strategic. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

Making sure I got the ball to the right person at the right moment allowed my teammates to trust in me, and the fact that we were able to score goals over and over again built credibility in our collective skills. Passing the design ball” on projects similarly builds skills amongst team members. They can even be done virtually!

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Often, this means conducting periodic focus groups, needs assessments, or surveys. This kind of advisory committee might be crucial in making sure the programs your organization implements actually serve the community effectively. Create structure. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

They contribute their time, skills, and passion to support the cause, all without expecting anything in return. What skill sets are required for these tasks? Include information about the time commitment, necessary skills, and any specific training required. Recruiting Volunteers Ready to find your dream team of volunteers?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As nonprofit finance leaders, we are charged with empowering our teams with the technology, skills, and support they need to adapt and grow. Here are the crucial things technology for nonprofit finance should be able to help us do: LEVERAGE SMART FUND ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE TO IDENTIFY THE MOST EFFECTIVE REVENUE SOURCES.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Senior citizens?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Each year, we celebrate Pro Bono Week: a time to recognize professionals around the world who volunteer their skills for causes they care about. Enable Community Members to Effectively Use Salesforce. Access to digital tools is only the first step in using technology effectively. You can contribute your skills for good, too!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A staff-wide survey last year revealed some key priorities, including: An equity review of compensation. Through an internal compensation review, as well an external one to benchmark against market rates, we are actively evaluating our current salary structures to ensure that they are equitable across the organization. What’s Next.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

You should also acknowledge that your Board members each have different skills and personalities, and some will be better at asking for money than others. Ensure Effective Organizational Planning The Board is responsible for both short-term and long-term strategic planning.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Segment your donor base : Use the information from the report to segment your donor base effectively.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

As top leaders in your organization, your board members should be skilled, trustworthy, reliable individuals who are passionate about your mission. Determine the type of leadership your nonprofit would benefit from What skills or connections would you like board members to have? Identify skill requirements.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Not every nonprofit board member needs to be a financial whiz to effectively serve on a board. Because with the perks and benefits of board service like meeting great people who are also passionate about the mission, honing your leadership skills, and making a difference for others comes the task of maintaining strong financial oversight.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

79% of businesses say the effects of the pandemic resulted in them having to increase their budget for digital transformation. Each stage requires a new skill set, and much of the timing is driven by company culture and comfort level. As you change stages, you may even have to change organizational structure. You can’t rush it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 9, 2019

For nonprofit organizations to effectively serve their missions and be sustainable, they must invest in some of their most vital resources: their staff. Patty Hampton of Nonprofit HR urges organizations to focus on finding candidates who have a balance of personality/culture fit and necessary skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. Because staff turnover challenges effectiveness and poor morale does not inspire staff to move the organization’s forward to great heights.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Part Three : Finally, Blakey reviews the impact of the three pillars and discusses governance, remuneration, corporate social responsibility, reporting, scale, regulation and structure. By the time you finish the book, you will also have learned about the nine habits that inspire trust. And this then becomes their Achilles heel.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The various menus and buttons and links need to express the visual identity of the site, for example, by using the key colors and typography in effective and prominent ways. Effective digital navigation paths truly support the brand by picking up key elements in language used, terms emphasized, styles of animation, and so on.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

[This is part three of a series taking a closer look at the key benchmarks from our 6th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report , conducted with The NonProfit Times. The above chart represents the responses from survey participants. You can download the complete report for free here.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation draws from a 2012 survey of the “ Always On Generation ” that provides insights from experts on the benefits and drawbacks of a hyperconnected life and how it is rewiring the young people’s brains. More than half of those in that age cohort have smartphones and 23% own tablet computers like iPads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders. Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems. As these forms spread to other European countries, researchers began to study their effectiveness (Defourny et al., Defourny et al.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). I do this all the time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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Business Empowerment Authoring Roles 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

Then, he closes by explaining to me that he believes I have the core skills to do a good job and to deliver on the things he needs me to achieve. Several companies, such as Kimberly-Clark , actively teach storytelling skills to their leaders. A story‘s structure should be context, action, result. And, scared.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Says one survey respondent, "Our greatest challenge is building a strong Board of Directors that is willing to fundraise for the organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2013

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." In the process, they are increasingly confronted with enablement constraints that limit their ability to get their jobs done effectively.

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Empowerment Authoring Skills Roles 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 18, 2018

Part Three : Finally, Blakey reviews the impact of the three pillars and discusses governance, remuneration, corporate social responsibility, reporting, scale, regulation and structure. By the time you finish the book, you will also have learned about the nine habits that inspire trust. And this then becomes their Achilles heel.

Leadership 40

Leadership Game Integration Team 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2011

In Spring 2010, I administered an informal survey as part of a Public Allies independent study project. I asked nonprofit professionals about their views on work-life balance and how it effects their day-to-day lives. If the tight rope line and its supportive structures are too tight or rigid, it's hard to maintain your footing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While most of the tech experts used lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice as their pedagogical approach and we did some pre-session surveys, it was still important for us to get to better understanding of the skill, knowledge, and mindsets of the participants once in the room. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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