Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

My new book is for anyone facing down an uncertain future, as well as a practical guide for every entrepreneur and aspiring entrepreneur,” says Feifer. Question: What is your biggest piece of advice to readers who want to be more forward thinking? But it's not. Feifer : Consider why change is so hard.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

My new book is for anyone facing down an uncertain future, as well as a practical guide for every entrepreneur and aspiring entrepreneur,” says Feifer. Question: What is your biggest piece of advice to readers who want to be more forward thinking? But it's not. Feifer : Consider why change is so hard.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the need-to-know information and steps of creating a major gift fundraising strategy, including: What is a major gift? Empower prospects to see your mission in action and understand exactly how your organization operates and creates the most significant impact possible. Check out this buyer’s guide.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Fundraising advice from phonathon experts. If the answer is yes, the caller begins the donation process with the new donor and helps guide them through the experience. It’s far more valuable if you pair that information with actionable next steps. Fundraising advice from phonathon experts.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

They offer services tailored to nonprofits, such as: Eligibility confirmation and account activation Keyword research and ad creation Account reactivation Getting Attention’s guide to Google Grants agencies explains, “Many nonprofits turn to general marketing professionals to help set up, develop, and maintain their Google Ad campaigns.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

This guide will help you decide whether partnering with a consultant is the right move for your association and how to choose the right team member when doing so. To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. Let’s get started.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A board report also works to outline potential risks for board members, sometimes creating a full risk assessment for review or opting to put a committee in charge and letting the board vote on proposed actions. Additionally, board reports may include ideas for actions or proposals for its members. Committee work . Accomplishments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

I have personally found this use case extremely helpful to have a one-click summary of really long threads transformed into actionable steps w/ links to source email.) Devi’s advice: understand the best use case for your organization and how you and your staff work best with the AI.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this article, I’m going to break down my guide to writing a great fundraising appeal even if you doubt your writing skills. These are the compelling points that I want to communicate in order to make my call to action as compelling as possible. That’s a one-way ticket to overwhelm. Sign up for the FREE training below!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 22, 2009

Social Actions , the platform that makes it easy for individuals and organizations to share actions across the web, has just launched it’s Ning-powered social network: My.SocialActions. Peter Deitz, the founder of SA, has shared his 10 Ways to Make a Difference on Social Actions - a guide to using SA to make a difference.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The auditor’s findings will in fact provide actionable insights on how to improve your back office and financial management practices. Bonus: implement the advice on our checklist and become a better financial steward even before the audit starts. Your donors will like the sound of that!) Is an audit intimating?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If you think that your volunteers will be more candid in person, offer to take a few of your volunteers out to coffee and ask their advice. Finally, be ready with a call-to-action or ask. With volunteer management tools, like EveryAction , you easily track your volunteer’s actions and availability. Solicit Advice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Whether the crisis be global or not, this book offers a practical guide for business leaders on how to navigate a crisis and then emerge in better shape than prior to the crisis. I truly believe that you can transform your future by reading this book and putting The Flexible Method into action,” says Burstall.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I’ve summarized advice from our contributors to offer practical ideas for beginning to integrate the Association 4.0 Sig VanDamme, the Founder of NimbleUser, GoJectory, and VA2A, offered this advice to bring the board along on those speculative ventures: Preparing a board to manage risk is a sales process. Association 4.0:

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Everyone who participated was an experienced risk manager and offered advice for how association leaders could help themselves and their volunteers to become more comfortable with uncertainty. Sig VanDamme, Co-founder at Gojectory, who has been an entrepreneur since he was old enough to mow lawns and shovel snow, had this advice.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With our guide, you’ll be well prepared to create a content strategy for your site, whether you’re migrating from a different CMS or starting from scratch. What actions do you want visitors to take on your site? A high conversion rate means your calls-to-action (CTAs) are working well.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

In this post, I’ll guide you through five critical mistakes to watch out for in your Statement of Activities. Ensuring compliance and accuracy in your financial reporting involves several key actions: Regularly review the latest guidelines and summaries provided by authoritative bodies on revenue recognition of grants and contracts.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

We have several quick reads that will give your skills a boost—with minimal time and effort: Nonprofit Quick Guides by Joanne Oppelt and Linda Lysakowski. This series features seven quick guides to support your professional success, including How to Find New Donors and Get Them to Give Again and How to Run a Strategic Planning Retreat.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

When you turn to another person for relationship advice, whether that’s a trusted friend or therapist, you often start by discussing what’s bothering you. Dive deeper into creating a lightweight data governance policy in this blog or download the Ultimate Guide to Data Governance.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

She asked for some advice around her (bumpy) request for proposals (RFP) process at her nonprofit. Grab this free guide and get easy, actionable tips to make sure you’re using the right RFP process. from our friend Maureen Wallbeoff Lisa pinged me the other day—she’s the development director for a social justice organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

She encourages women to treat their career like an investment portfolio with early deposits of bold moves, courageous actions, and informed risk. Additionally, she shares that the book can be used as a comprehensive guide to prepare yourself to make the most of your early career years. My best bit of advice: Ask, don’t assume.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. My biggest piece of advice to nonprofits at year-end is not to spend money reaching complete strangers. . 3) Create strategic Facebook Ads.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When you have clear goals for your event and a detailed map of action steps to work on, you can have a very successful event. Talk to other organizations and ask for their advice on executing a successful event. If you’ve never created this kind of detailed schedule before, find a mentor who can guide you.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore how nonprofit endowments work and what steps to take to start fueling your long-term fundraising success. One of the first actions they’ll take is to open a brokerage account for your organization, which allows you to invest money and accept stock donations from donors. What are nonprofit endowments?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

This guide will review these tips for bringing in more donations: Prioritize building strong supporter relationships. Bloomerang’s donation page guide recommends following these guidelines to make the most of your donation suggestions: Use your average donation amount to choose suggestions. Explain the impact of donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

PETA Action Alerts App. You can participate in urgent action alerts against cruelty to animals and donate to support PETA’s lifesaving work. For added fun, every action you take will earn you points and badges. The official American Red Cross First Aid app puts expert advice for everyday emergencies in your hand.

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EveryAction

MAY 15, 2017

The annual report details how and why nonprofit fundraising emails end up in spam folders, calculates the damage spam can do on giving days like #GivingTuesday and during end-of-year (EOY) fundraising, and offers actionable advice for improving your deliverability rates. Want to learn how to improve your deliverability rates?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Engaging them to take concrete actions like signing petitions or spreading the word can create ripples of change. Together, we’ll turn that passion into action. By speaking directly to their hearts, you’re turning passive followers into passionate advocates, ready to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book offers lots of great advice on using many of Facebook features like Events. So many people don’t bother to fill out all the information for an Event (or a Page or Group) and so they’re missing out on important messaging, keywords and calls to action. This book was definitely a labor of love, but in a good way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also writes about digital marketing with helpful and actionable advice on Wired Impact’s nonprofit marketing blog and for their online guides. View your nonprofit’s website on a computer, tablet and phone and test these important actions: Complete an online form. Give it a try! Use the main navigation to get around.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

You might need Errors and Omissions/Professional Liability if your actions or inactions could disrupt your clients' operations. This will guide your business planning. Will you have to pay local business taxes? Make sure you have insurance from someplace. Everyone needs health coverage.

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

His words also echoed my opening remarks at our 2023 convening: “I’ve been looking for a beacon on the hill to guide philanthropy forward, and I realize that the beacon on the hill is me. If ever you have a tough moment when you doubt your worth, I hope you remember her sage advice. We are the beacon on the hill.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The Ads Manager interface is not particularly intuitive, and the advertising advice offered by Facebook and third parties is almost always focused on e-commerce rather than nonprofits and advocacy campaigns. Note: any fields that aren’t specifically mentioned in this guide should be fine left with their default settings.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Julia Campbell is social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. They created a pin board with expert advice on how to “Green Your Home” that is filled with beautiful visuals and helpful content. By Julia Campbell . 2) Pinterest is about discovery.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

While it’s not our place to predict the outcomes we might see in the wake of this virus, nor can we provide health or legal advice, we hope that offering the following ideas and resource s ( by no means a comprehensive guide ) might help you and your staff approach the COVID-19 situation with a degree of calm and a plan of action.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s a down-to-earth guide that provides advice and actionable steps on how to: Get teams to embrace innovation beyond empty slogans. To do so, he recommends you consider these four action steps : Discover and engage with the local startup community. The book, published in January 2020, is, Fearless Innovation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The third post in this series, 10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits , provides detailed advice, but its worth reiterating that the first step in being successful in online fundraising is having well-designed, data-driven donation pages. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ). 3) Launch a Tribute Giving Program.

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