Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps quickly became two of my favorite tools, teaching me about researching funders, finding specific grant opportunities, and making connections in the fundraising and grantmaking landscape of my state. We hope this will result in a model we can share with other states across the country.

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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

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In every study I’ve read and every study I’ve conducted, there was always a group of people who, despite experiencing dangerous levels of stress, were not burned-out. So, what did these resilient role models have in common? Question: The book's servant leadership teachings are particularly interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Trails – Trails are guided learning paths that group both Modules and Projects together. These teach you skills and knowledge about a specific topic with carefully curated modules and projects to streamline your learning experience. . Reach out to our team of experts!! Reach out to our team of experts!!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. Aspire Research Group. Aspire Research Group is a fundraising and research consulting firm that specializes in boutique research, campaigns, and major gifts. The Munshine Group. The Covenant Group. The Phoenix Philanthropy Group.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. The second year in 2011, we did two sets of peer groups using workshops, action learning projects, and micro grants to encourage experimentation. The first phase was an intensive “ Digi-Strat ” boot camp last month. Training Design'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Our group of advisors includes 20 impressive women from 8 technology companies who are sharing their skills and expertise with local women entrepreneurs help them to scale their businesses. The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion. She modeled reading hers.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These two groups are important, but you already know how to find them, so let’s set them aside for a bit and focus on the third group: prospective mid-level donors. In our work with Oxfam America’s mid-level program, we expanded their prospect pool from two existing modeled audiences to six additional prospect groups.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. Aspire Research Group. Aspire Research Group is a fundraising and research consulting firm that specializes in boutique research, campaigns, and major gifts. The Munshine Group. The Covenant Group. The Phoenix Philanthropy Group.

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Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52

Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2022

Hosted by Community Brands, Xperience allowed attendees virtual one-on-one meetings with conference exhibitors, in addition to larger group sessions. Rachel Seratte led the session, teaching administrators what to expect in their new role and how to use Nimble AMS to get the job done. Best practices for Nimble AMS administrators.

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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. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2016

In California the Pew Research Center finds that Latinos have surpassed whites as the largest racial/ethnic group at 39% of the population, the largest percentage of any group in the state. The research affirms that philanthropy is embedded across all groups and genders. percent in 2012 to 14.7 percent in 2060.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It isn’t your organization’s values, delivery model, or social impact. We can allow donors to teach us through their behaviors. So, how do you define it? Your value prop is an effective way of connecting with donors that goes beyond your mission statement. But we must set up a system to listen.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The next day, the whole group had an opportunity experience The Llama Pack Project first hand, by going on a half-day trek in the Sacred Valley. The Llama Pack Project partners with indigenous families like Mr. Luis’s family to create an economic development model that allows these families to earn an income through their llamas.

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Project Peru South America Literacy 101

Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? How do you adapt your touchpoints model to create a transformative donor journey? Brian Solis suggests a journey model for business that’s eminently adaptable for the social benefit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Establish norms around compassionate behavior and modeled by SLT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. At one point, when talking about the Chinese men who had built the railroads in the Western US, she asked each man in the group how tall he is. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.

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India Education Software Learning 104

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Want to help assemble evidence used to convict dictors of war crimes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I later became a member of the GIGI group ( girl geeks of the World Cafe ). The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

" Be A Role Model of Generosity. He notes, "So we model the values that we hope our children will emulate, and support charities that our kids can see connections to. Parents and relatives are the best role model for their kids in sharing generosity, that is,generosity is passed on from generation to generation."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

They should be role models who inspire colleagues to see from a different perspective. Recreational activities allow groups to practice working together in a fun setting and celebrate accomplishments. Innovators Innovators are the rule-breakers and disrupters who see beyond the status quo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We learned and practiced a “ making ” technique called “paper prototype” where we created a model for an idea out of paper. Each four-person team had 20 minutes to design and build a paper prototype for a new type of car radio. In the last question, we were asked to add a final or revised solution.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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