Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2014

Through thousands of community-run events around the world, the Maker Party unites educators, organizations, and enthusiastic Internet users of all ages and skill levels. Technology shapes how we learn, how we connect, and how we communicate, but not everyone has the basic skills and information they need to harness the power of the web.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 12, 2023

R ead our blog to discover how PEAK Grantmaking empowered its member volunteers and strengthened its volunteer program. The peer groups also offer opportunities for member v olunteers to develop more skills and become leaders. Does your association count on the hard work of member volunteers? Speaking opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Set up a Spend, Give, and Save Allowance Policy: For younger kids, here’s a nifty piggy bank , with separate slots for investing, saving, spending, and donating is a great way to teach kids about devoting a portion of their income to charity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. The five EI skills are: Build self-awareness to identify what makes you vulnerable to burnout. Was it an acquired skill? How much and what types of support they must work on their burnout immunity skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Another example includes using AI to optimize volunteer engagement by aligning opportunities with individual skills and interests. In other words, use all your critical thinking skills. 65% are using it to clean-up their Monday morning inboxes. She pointed out there was a wide range of use cases for staff as well as volunteers.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work. Passing the CFRE exam demonstrates you’ve done the work necessary and have the skills to develop relationships with donors, increase volunteer engagement, and lead a team of skilled fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

I facilitated several peer learning groups, including Teaching Tuesdays for trainers with John Kenyon for the Parents Center staff, and numerous workshops for the Resilience Initiative on leading with empathy, using generative AI for personal and team productivity, and ethical and responsible AI use. That is twenty years!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Writing and Blogging: I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004 and on this updated wordpress blog since 2010. This past year, I found myself writing less on this blog. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs. Skills in this area I want to deepen are reflection and creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2024

Another example–noted in Gump’s book–is the Junior Achievement’s JA BizTown program, which teaches younger students about being citizens, workers, and consumers in society. The post Embracing Intrapreneurship: A Nonprofit Game Changer first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. It didn’t take long). That wasn’t fair.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 20, 2024

Off-the-shelf AI tools are being touted as the solution to all our content woes, promising to churn out blog posts, social media updates, and newsletters at lightning speed. But just as a microwave can’t teach culinary skills, generic AI can’t inherently understand your organization’s unique voice, mission, or brand.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. When you step in the door, you come prepackaged with skills you can share. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

I have continued to teach facilitation and meeting design workshops and coaching for online and hybrid meetings Training & Facilitation: I have maintained an active schedule of conference keynotes, master classes, workshops and webinars on the topics of workplace wellbeing and digital transformation for nonprofits.

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

READ TIME: 3 minutes This post was originally published on EveryAction’s Thursday Thoughts blog. The Planned Parenthood team has built a community that they nurture with content and skills. As spring unfolds and the days get longer, many nonprofit supporters are ready for opportunities to show up—in person, virtually, or both!—and

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Invest in your fundraising skills There’s never a bad time to prioritize professional development, so start thinking about putting together a plan based on your career goals. Take your fundraising skills to the next level by: Attending that conference you’ve wanted to go to for years.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life. I deeply emphasize the importance of grit, charisma, perseverance, and emotional agility. I believe in diving in, staying focused, and getting the job done, all while learning and growing in a position.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Feeling like an island, burned by management, with no growth opportunities to lean into any of my previous passions or skills (did I mention work-life balance is nonexistent when working two jobs to get by?) That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Seth Godin has a post called " The Growing Productivity Divide " where he lists some basic digital literacy skills that incorporate social media tools. Digital or Internet literacy skills are nothing new - my first introduction was over ten years when Doug Johnson developed the Mankato Scale. skills to artists and educators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

I have continued to teach facilitation and meeting design workshops and coaching for online and hybrid meetings Training & Facilitation: I have maintained an active schedule of conference keynotes, master classes, workshops and webinars on the topics of workplace wellbeing and digital transformation for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? Essentially, design thinking process teaches how to be iterative. Next, we looked for patterns and grouped together the sticky notes into clusters. The following emerged for our group: How do we support individual leaders in risk taking that leads to emergence?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life. I deeply emphasize the importance of grit, charisma, perseverance, and emotional agility. I believe in diving in, staying focused, and getting the job done, all while learning and growing in a position.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

In just thirty minutes, we will identify the “how” and the “why” questions your data is asking, find out how your program data can help you showcase your impact, and teach you how technology can help you visualize that impact. You May Also Enjoy: Blog: Introducing Cloud for Good Campaign Services.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. Happy reading!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

JA teaches students financial literacy, professional skills, and everything else they need to become independent adults in both in-school and after-school programs. Teach for America. Teach for America (TFA) is another nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all children have equal access to a good education. Final thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

We wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the age of automation and it implications for fundraisers, Leveraging the Power of Bots for Civil Society on SSIR Blog and The Robots Have Arrived: How Nonprofits Can Put Them To Work on Guidestar. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Every one of our meetings, practices, and team events starts with prayer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Trailblazers are invited to sharpen their skills with 1,000+ sessions and workshops. Reimagining Engagement with Omni-Channel Personalization – Learn how Teach For America is using real-time, personalized experiences across marketing channels to drive conversion, increase efficiency, and provide a better supporter experience. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2020

And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns her/his rookie smarts and is still able to retain her/his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

While we use our technology skills for good, we don’t stop there. In the last year, 85% of my colleagues volunteered, 63% participated in skills-based volunteerism ; and 86% say that Blackbaud’s work powering the world of philanthropy was important in their decision to join the company. We Give Back. Camp Blackbaud.

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In another recent blog post , we talked about the amount of free time the average person has access too. Provide volunteers with valuable skills. Helping volunteers gain new skills is a great way to provide them with value in exchange for their time. Be flexible and considerate of your supporter’s schedule. Takeaways.

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