Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

“Workarounds are effective, versatile, and accessible methods for tackling complex problems,” shares the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds. Those four workarounds are: The Piggyback : Capitalizing on pre-existing but seemingly unrelated systems or relationships.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

At that time, (RED) spoke at length about investments in global health systems, the importance of antiretroviral drugs, and so on. We talk so much about prevention and treatment, but if you don’t have access to testing, none of that matters. One of (RED)’s earliest partners in 2006 was Apple. 20 cents per day.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There is an opportunity to support small-scale farmers in accessing low-cost, connected technology to improve their efficiency and efficacy as producers — both during stable times and times of crisis. Emphasis was placed on making information actionable, accessible, and bite-sized to fit into the lifestyle of a small-scale farmer.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2023

Your constituent relationship management (CRM) platform, ticketing software, volunteer platform, and fundraising platforms would communicate with one another, creating a 360-degree view of your data that’s easily accessible and endlessly functional—which means you can do even more to meet, retain, and mobilize those who support your purpose.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He ended up running for about 1,500 miles all the way to Zambia, arriving with nothing but the clothes on his back, about 90 pounds, and showing up at a refugee camp where he knew nobody. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He ran into Congo.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Access to capital has been growing over the past ten years, and international collaboration is increasing in order to build a stronger infrastructure to support impact investing. At the forefront of strategies is impact investing. From the plenary speech alone, it was clear how much the impact investing field has evolved.

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