Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2022

The four components of the Wise Compassion Flywheel are: Caring presence – “Be here now” Caring courage – “Courage over comfort” Caring candor – “Direct is faster” Caring transparency – “Clarity is kindness” Within the book, you will discover: How to unlearn management and relearn being human. Listen intensively.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

The four components of the Wise Compassion Flywheel are: Caring presence – “Be here now” Caring courage – “Courage over comfort” Caring candor – “Direct is faster” Caring transparency – “Clarity is kindness” Within the book, you will discover: How to unlearn management and relearn being human. Listen intensively.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Gagging at the thought of another article on “self-care?” Self-care IS probably one of the most overused and misappropriated terms out there right now. If we think about this in terms of individuals, self-care, by definition, runs deeper than external or physical pampering. Learning acceptance and self-love.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Instead, people help those they care about. Build that trust, and that person will likely reciprocate in caring about you, too. Between our long lists of things to do and increasing demands on our time, it’s easy to feel stretched too thin. It’s all about self discipline and commitment to yourself. It feels manipulative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. I made this part of the instructions. … Read More.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As you can imagine and/or may have felt the effects of yourself, this puts extra pressure on the remaining and available staff to stretch themselves to wear more hats than they already were. . What self-care training, wellness-related programming, and other resources can you provide to ensure your team remains strong and steady?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One of our hopes for the book was that it would spark conversation about the need for self-care as part of doing the work. Erika approached me after the session to chat about her idea of adapting the workshop process as part of their staff retreat so staff could self-assess for burnout symptoms and then create self-care plans.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

This act can create anxiety, self-consciousness, and reluctance. Many fundraisers feel awkward promoting their cause or event, even if it’s for an organization or issue they care deeply about. Set a bold goal – Aim high to stretch yourself and attract ambitious supporters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Persuade them to stretch. Create an environment that encourages and reward self-discipline. He writes, "One of Colin Powell's leadership principals is, 'The day soldiers top bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

EDT, New York Times bestselling author, activist, philanthropist, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast, offers her inimitable take on self-care as the pathway to organizational success. These are two powerhouse presenters who will inspire you to make your mark on your organization’s mission: Glennon Doyle , Monday, Oct.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

After the first few long dark months of lockdown, I hired babysitters and was starting to find actual stretches of time to work. While so many things were collapsing around us, 18Doors secured a PPP loan, and staff were urged to practice self-care. But we do what we do because we care about the work and the people we help.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Persuade them to stretch. Create an environment that encourages and reward self-discipline. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Create an environment that encourages and rewards trust. Empower every individual to create and achieve greatness. Love them when they fail.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2014

Finding the balance between being productive and self-care is well, just that: a balancing act. In my experimenting, I found three consistent, but persistent pitfalls to finding balance: Skipping breaks or self-care activities because there''s too much work to do. How are you finding productivity and balance?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Persuade them to stretch. Create an environment that encourages and rewards self-discipline. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Create an environment that encourages and rewards trust. Empower every individual to create and achieve greatness. Love them when they fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

The simplest way to incorporate movement in your training is to use mini-stretch breaks. The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. You ask participants to copy your stretch and movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. A walking meeting is not just a walk on the beach, you are doing work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 28, 2016

Persuade them to stretch. Create an environment that encourages and rewards self-discipline. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Create an environment that encourages and rewards trust. Empower every individual to create and achieve greatness. Love them when they fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Review self-care activities and celebrate Friendship. Allow staff to identify “stretch assignments”. Create safe space to discuss any negative issues, Provide clear procedure for reporting grievances or complaints so people feel heard. Establish norms around compassionate behavior and modeled by SLT.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 29, 2015

Persuade them to stretch. Create an environment that encourages and rewards self-discipline. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Create an environment that encourages and rewards trust. Empower every individual to create and achieve greatness. Love them when they fail.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2015

Persuade them to stretch. Create an environment that encourages and rewards self-discipline. He writes, "One of Colin Powell's leadership principals is, 'The day soldiers top bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By making your prospect identification proactive rather than reactive you can cut down on the time to secure a major gift, avoid missed opportunities from prospects who will never self-identify, and ensure that high-value prospects receive purposeful cultivation commensurate with their value from day one. Upgrade Your Asks Strategically.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Persuade them to stretch. Create an environment that encourages and reward self-discipline. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Create an environment that encourages and rewards trust. Empower every individual to create and achieve greatness. Love them when they fail.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 24, 2013

By learning and reading, you grow your world, your self, your compassion and tolerance for the differences that are all around us. Others stretch us. They stretch our compassion, understanding, and tolerance. The nonprofit sector needs your expertise, goods, time, and care. Exercise compassion.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Working with a lean budget and stakeholders who care about where every dollar goes means that the stakes and expectations for financial management are sky-high for nonprofits. Some revenue sources will clearly be revenue-wise (self-supporting or clearly core to the mission and supported by outside sources), and some will be ready to sunset.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re not careful, you can find yourself scattered over so many tasks that you’re not doing any of them very well or effectively. Your schedule will only be as effective as your self-discipline. But it’s important to recognize your own limitations and practice self-care, too. That’s why systems are so important.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’re in the final stretches of year-end, and there’s still some cool things that you can do. Everybody cares about Giving Tuesday, right? Tell yourself, “Self, you did great.” I don’t care if it feels weird. And they will care about that. That’s right. Does that sound good?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When you treat your donors like the caring people they are, with philanthropic goals of their own, they will respond positively, often by giving more often or giving bigger than you’d hoped. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Target them based on how much you think they care about your cause.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And one of the elements that I brought together was, you know, how important it is to really nurture and take care of your community. . So you might say something along the lines of, “We both care about STEM education. And so today, I’m talking about, well, what does that really look like? And how do you do that?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

So people did stretch, they gave more than they would traditionally give because we were able to deliver that story and the payout of: you’re going to provide a safe dining room chair for a sister to replace current ones that are 20 years old and just aren’t safe. Leverage your networks.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

But there’s a balance, there’s absolutely a balance, and you don’t want to leave yourself too stretched and overexposed if you’re continually going out and evaluating and rolling out new software or systems. Just sharing some information with your team about encouraging them to stand up and stretch. All right, seventh-inning stretch.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. We all saw something in the uproar and possibility for ourselves and those we care about.”.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

For example, you might explain the story of your humane society this way: “Emma and Jennifer, our founders, noticed there was a great need for humane homeless pet care in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Include a self-addressed and stamped envelope for donors to place checks in. I’m sure they’ve got this taken care of.”.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

As Elaine points out in her essay, there are butchers who sell phone cards, barbershops with de facto day care centers, and bookstores that resemble cafes more than libraries. There are concerts, pow wows, and holiday bazaars, all kinds of things that stretch the popular ideas of what happens at the museum. And it's hardly unique.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And I feel like if everything I’ve screenprinted in my life were lined up, it’d stretch coast to coast. Well, friend, like that bad date, the mission doesn’t care about you. Ideas can be self-propagating but slippery. I’ve probably made more coasters than I’ll ever need. Most of the jewelry I wear are old samples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Networked Fundraising Networked fundraising is where many individuals leveraging their personal networks to make a donation to a charity and in some cases it is self-organizing. I wonder if we will see more of these self-organizing campaigns or will the next reteriation be a nonprofit organization powering a groundswell.

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