Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. Platform builder. Storytelling is key.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

If one or more of your directors is involved in diversity planning in their professional life, ask them to present to the group; Or invite a CEO and/or staff members from another association to tell their story. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. All of us have baggage.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Written in partnership with Equivolve Consulting, we capture lessons from the BMA Fellowship as a case study of what’s possible when Black social innovators exist in an affirming environment of support and respect. The money pledged is an example of historical cycles of reactionary funding traditionally followed by retrenchment and backlash.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Passion, clarity, and confidence are key to telling your story. You must be able to tell your nonprofit’s story through numbers. You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. When you confidently share about your vision and why it matters, you’ll attract supporters.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. We rarely like to acknowledge the competitive nature of the sector, but it is beyond real, and competition is another dynamic that funders have created and now sustain with their flawed grantmaking structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. Leave in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. So what did you do next?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money – but we were the age of Aquarius! When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you’re normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure. And that’s an important lesson to learn.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, most candidates will have a handful of success stories to share. What lessons did you take away from the experience? Candidates will also need to be self-motivated and highly organized and should be able to articulate personal style (or previous employers’ structure) for keeping multiple detailed priorities in flight.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Why do we tell stories? The amazing thing about the web is what we can do with those impulses, stories, and gifts. We don’t own the stories, we are stewards of the stories. What is it about the health community that’s different? It’s about death. PatientOpinion was created as a gift economy.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This recent article from AIGA, “ Small Budgets, Tight Deadlines, Important Work: Lessons all designers can learn from working with nonprofits ,” was one of those instances. What would the structure be like? Ethical storytelling: It is not just about telling the right stories, but also telling the stories the right way. .

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Everyaction

JULY 2, 2018

Training and team structure is key Another lesson learned by the Nature Conservancy over decades of planned giving work was that structuring their planned giving team around different types of planned gifts was more effective than dividing fundraisers based on geography. Start the conversation by sharing stories.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2015

Paul Smith Paul Smith's book, Lead with a Story , is one of the top 10 books I recommend every leader should read. Since the book was published about three years ago, my admiration for Paul's passion for storytelling and helping to teach people how to effectively tell stories has only but grown. Any surprises?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

One topic they discussed the challenge of networked governance and leadership and mentioned that they’d be holding this convening to talk about to “smush&# the two networks together and have the networks design the best governance structure. Akhtar Badshah captured the story in this blog post. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

In the book, O’Neil shares his deeply personal, honest, uplifting, inspiring and sometimes tragic story of grief and healing and his discovered most valuable lessons in what keeps him present, grounded and thriving as a father, husband, coach, mentor, and leader. It is life. It is messy. O’Neil : Time is your most precious commodity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In the book, O’Neil shares his deeply personal, honest, uplifting, inspiring and sometimes tragic story of grief and healing and his discovered most valuable lessons in what keeps him present, grounded and thriving as a father, husband, coach, mentor, and leader. It is life. It is messy. O’Neil : Time is your most precious commodity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

In the book, O’Neil shares his deeply personal, honest, uplifting, inspiring and sometimes tragic story of grief and healing and his discovered most valuable lessons in what keeps him present, grounded and thriving as a father, husband, coach, mentor, and leader. It is life. It is messy. O’Neil : Time is your most precious commodity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

They will also discuss the many opportunities and challenges that arise from the aftermath of a viral campaign and more importantly the lessons they have learned about replicating the results. Our session used the following structure. In August, 2015, the second ALS Icebucket Challenge took place.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

From recruiting, developing and sustaining Black teachers for schools, BTP works to develop recruitment strategies, create support structures and even conduct research to ensure long term sustainability for Black teachers. Black Public Media emerged out of a need for more stories from Black storytellers. Black Public Media.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I’m sure we each have stories like this. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! That’s the lesson here. Reading these comments, I felt terrible. I had asked my contact whether participants were comfortable using Zoom with Google Docs. It wasn’t a big deal.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Optimize existing strategies: Fine-tune your existing fundraising strategies by incorporating lessons learned from your evaluation. Develop a story that highlights your nonprofit’s impact and the importance of ongoing support from donors. Embrace data-driven decision-making and continuously monitor performance.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Emotion will pull viewers into your story and help them remember your message. Let your audience feel what you or your story subjects are experiencing. Drawing emotion requires you, as the story creator, to truly be present in the moment. Give structure to your story. Bonus tip) Teach a lesson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Have you evaluated your work with intermediaries, and if so, what lessons have you learned? Please visit the OE Strategy Refresh site and share your thoughts on these questions and, more importantly, your stories. Have you participated in a great peer learning community —either in person or online? What made it great?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The networking conference was an opportunity for participants from different countries to share their lessons learned and network with one another. For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Congratulations on the campaign, and thanks for sharing lessons! Peter Campbell writes a provocative post about IT isolation in an organizational management structure that goes very wrong: the System Administrator goes to jail. It's a true story. Peter points out the lessons every nonprofit can take from this. .

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

Their new report dives into lessons on how to engage volunteers in community change efforts, telling the unique story of KaBOOM!, In return, she'll invite you to join her no-charge webinar in July, "How to Tell Your 5-Star Stories" Hurry, the deadline is Wednesday, June 13th. The Knight Foundation published KaBOOM!:

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. But for some reason, I applied none of those lessons to my new situation. The book explains how to host events with purpose, drawing lessons from intimate parties, mass happenings, and international summits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Lessons learned from our work with agencies in the field. When combined, the quantitative (financial) and qualitative (lessons learned in practice) data tell a powerful story, and the report’s findings come as DV providers brace for additional government funding cuts.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Operations & Leadership How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 4 Great Examples) 14 min read Read Now That’s a lesson you can apply to your own board communications.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

These top five lessons serve as a good starting point for evaluating the effectiveness of your organization’s website. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Evaluating Your Website’s Effectiveness. Tell a compelling story and tell it well. Admittedly, these lessons only scratch the surface of website effectiveness.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. The National Vending Machine is a travelling exposition that tells the historical and personal story behind everyday objects. All these objects and stories together we call our ‘community of objects’.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Both posts influenced this speech. Movements versus campaigning.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money - but we were the age of Aquarius! When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you're normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure. And that's an important lesson to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

She shared some powerful stories from the heart, and also mentioned that we shouldn't think we're too small to make a difference. "If She also announced that the Huffington Post has a new living section which feature the stories of people volunteering, raising money for causes they care about, and other inspirational stories.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Create a blog about “top five moments” or “top five lessons” from the event. Host monthly events with a “town hall” structure. Give tours of your facility, take them behind the scenes, tell real-world stories specific to your organization and who the dollars have gone to support. Monthly Town Halls.

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