Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. They can handle the discomfort of learning curves and uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future. Therefore, we need to recognize and respect this dynamic as we lead and support our teams.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 23, 2024

Equipping them with volunteer orientation knowledge ensures they understand the value proposition of volunteers and can champion: Effective Volunteer Recruitment: Board members and committee members can leverage their networks to attract skilled volunteers. Volunteer Retention: Positive volunteer experiences lead to long-term engagement.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2023

To improve the experience for volunteers, nonprofits should focus on providing a supportive environment, clear communication, flexible opportunities for involvement, and a chance for personal growth. This cultivates a community of dedicated supporters. Ongoing support. Use a variety of training methods.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

How to incentivize volunteerism At its core, volunteerism is the engagement and mobilization of groups of people to support others or fight for a worthwhile cause. Volunteerism definition Volunteerism is the act of contributing free labor to conduct community service or support a nonprofit organization.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 11, 2023

Minds Matter Southern California supports students in their sophomore, junior, and senior years. Their program offers a unique combination of mentoring support, group instruction, and social-emotional learning. Other giving levels supported similar objectives of helping young adults transition to college.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’ve been part of the Salesforce community for a while, you’ve certainly heard of Trailhead — the fun way to learn about all things Salesforce. Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. First, some tips for your learning program based on our experience. You may have even earned some badges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This is key to empowering your ambassadors and giving them the skills they need to fundraise with success. . Create a mentor program. . This helps them hit the ground running and reduces support time needed to get your ambassadors up to speed. Create a mentor program. . When launching your mentor program, be sure to: .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

And local Boys & Girls Clubs helped open the door to opportunities young people might not have otherwise, offering career training, skill building, positive mentors, and pathways to a great future. Today, experts estimate kids have lost up to nine months of learning and youth of color potentially up to a year of learning loss.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 20, 2022

Read on to learn why association leadership should take the extra step of investing in volunteers and for a “how-to” on improving volunteer engagement in your program. . Publicly acknowledging your volunteer program is a great method to attract new volunteers and increase the recruitment of highly skilled members. .

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Every day you’ll inevitably learn something about our products, coding, our nonprofit customers, or how you can make a bigger impact on the team. The work environment in the Kindful offices is collaborative, communicative, challenging, yet supportive. We leverage each other’s diverse perspectives and experiences for success.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Aiming to learn more about what it offers and hear the real experience of a fellow. . Thanks for the support, team. . The hope in sharing part of my story is to give program insight to applicants, share the immense value to supporters of the program, and give thanks to my incredibly supportive team. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Training and Workshops Your nonprofit can offer training programs and workshops where members enhance their skills and industry knowledge. Mentorship Programs Mentorship programs connect experienced professionals with newcomers, providing guidance, skill transfer, and personal growth opportunities. Let’s get at it!

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1]. Thank you. [1]

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Forum One

AUGUST 11, 2022

The summer internship is an opportunity for students to get a glimpse into the world of digital technology, learn from our experts, and apply their experience to a variety of exciting projects. Our staff enjoys the opportunity to work with our interns and learn from their experience as well. Building a Network. Gaining Experience.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. Glenn taught himself the skills needed to maintain and repair computers. Byte Back works to fight low wages and ensure STAR (Skilled Through Alternative Routes) workers get the paychecks they deserve. Programs and Impact.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . Visit Grantli to learn more about how I do my grant research and writing and how your organization can find even more funders and funding opportunities. The Awesome Foundation.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Q: What if one I have only basic office skills? They were an intelligent and sophisticated group, and I learned a lot from them. Prior to college, I had also taken typing courses to hone my office skills, and this made me a valuable employee. All along this early adventure, I learned on the job. My mind was a sponge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Note: This guest post was published on the Packard Foundation OE Blog reflects what was learned from designing and delivering leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. Creating Next Generation Leaders and the Organizations to Support Them – by Beth Kanter and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. We learned a lot.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Leadership support is essential. You’ll need leaders to support—or at least not block—this work. And then we checked in with them and offered support as they decided who should be a part of the committee.“. Share what support participants will have to fulfill their role. Support from a mentor, peer, or staff person.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Compassion is to take a step away from empathy and ask ourselves what we can do to support the person who is suffering. Their extensive research shows that there are four skill sets needed for a leader to operate with wise compassion when doing hard things. But compassion is different. In this way, compassion is an intention.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

The book (co-authored by Dick Weiss ) chronicles Michael’s story of going from an underdog athlete to a turnaround CEO, and how he took his student-athlete experience and translated those learned lessons to successes in his career. As a basketball player, Michael learned teamwork, courage, adaptability, and much more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 26, 2022

To stay ahead of the curve, those working within the ecosystem are looking for employers who will nurture their desire for continued learning and help propel their careers forward. . During those three months, apprentices learn the platform, industry-specific products/use cases, consulting methodology, and consulting soft skills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

They are learning the ways different generations adapt and grow in the workplace and how to build an environment that helps the organization succeed. Leaders that empower their team to take on initiatives and pursue skill growth will develop a productive staff.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

Compassion is to take a step away from empathy and ask ourselves what we can do to support the person who is suffering. Their extensive research shows that there are four skill sets needed for a leader to operate with wise compassion when doing hard things. But compassion is different. In this way, compassion is an intention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Before I share some the big takeaways from the Big Room session, let me tell you about the IFC. It is one of the best nonprofit conferences I’ve attended in over my 35 years in the sector. I learned some much from the sessions as well as the opportunities to socialize and network. It as a fantastic discussion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Society depends on nonprofits, nonprofits require sustainable revenue, sustainable revenue comes in large part from fundraising professionals, and fundraising professionals need more support and appreciation. Professional coaching support. Internal mentoring program. Fundraiser talent investment interventions.

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Media Cause

MARCH 8, 2021

Nearly 200 people applied to our Fellowship this Spring because they’ve been in this situation of wanting to grow, to learn, to gain that critical experience, but not finding anyone who would offer them the opportunity to do it. But we still need more. Cue Veruca Salt, but in a much less whiny and far more altruistic way.)

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

Dear Charity Clairity, Every time I attend a conference or webinar on the subject of major donor development I learn about the importance of meeting with major donors in person. Sometimes they won’t have the skills. Sometimes they won’t have the support, time and resources. . Thanks for this question, Charity Clairity.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

With support from influential figures like Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman to run for President of the United States in 1979, the NSBE has grown from its six founding members to include over 30,000 members worldwide. At a collegiate level, NSBE supports all students who are in pursuit of a degree in any STEM field.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Volunteer to support one or more of the thousands of Trailblazers pivoting to Salesforce careers from other industries. You can mentor or teach a class with Tech Forward. Follow the DEI Open Source Commons project on Twitter to learn about upcoming events, resources, and opportunities to volunteer. What’s next? See something?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2022

Compassion is to take a step away from empathy and ask ourselves what we can do to support the person who is suffering. Their extensive research shows that there are four skill sets needed for a leader to operate with wise compassion when doing hard things. But compassion is different. In this way, compassion is an intention.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A few weeks ago, we aligned with the YW for a skills-based volunteering project with one of their partners, Independence High School in Manhattan. I look forward to staying connected with them and plan to do whatever I can to help mentor them as they continue their education and pursue their careers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

In order to counter the pending “leadership deficit,” organizations must take a new approach to building HPT’s, which involves approaching human resources strategically, creating a development plan, building a supportive culture and measuring performance. Build a Supportive Structure. Approach Human Resources Strategically.

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