Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The SQ evaluates a leader’s current mindset and behaviors using the “3A Framework” – acumen, allocation, action. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential. People are only as good as their actions.

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Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

When the calendar turned to 2021, we all knew COVID-19 was not going to disappear. I came up with a process for matching volunteers with capacity-building roles that was very successful. I worked closely with those teams to help build committee role descriptions for the various events. Step 4: Put Your Volunteers In Action!

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. Inspiring calls to action. Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Inspiring calls to action. Intuitive user experience. A compelling “why.”.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The new Clone action menu option is a huge time-saver! Your users can now search for a custom address and then access each address that’s stored in a custom address field as a structured compound data type or as individual address components. This is going to make flow building much easier! Clone Lightning Apps (Beta).

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

When you started researching to build your nonprofit’s first website, what did you encounter? At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofit organizations to custom-build a site that meets their unique needs. These services are often out of range for new nonprofits building a site for the first time.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This repetition not only increases the likelihood of individuals taking action but also reinforces the importance of your cause and the urgency of their support. When implementing this strategy, create compelling and visually appealing call-to-action buttons that convey the purpose and urgency of donating to your cause.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Every membership program needs a structure that appeals to its intended audience. Membership Models: The What and Why A membership model is an organizational structure where a nonprofit offers a valuable set of benefits in exchange for a recurring membership fee. Often, members can join for a nominal fee or for free!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 5, 2022

.” You’ll hear exciting updates from Blackbaud executives and discover how we’re building software just for you. K–12 Super Session: Building a Thriving School Culture in a Time of Great Change. bbcon is an opportunity to get inspired, learn from experts, and build your network. Register for free today !

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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. Try this simple trick to build a brilliant career: Forget about achieving “balance!” Look at your “Outlook equity” or “calendar equity” and see how you can adjust how you spend your time.

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Classy

MAY 12, 2021

Back your nonprofit social media approach by a strong plan to increase the likelihood of attracting donors worldwide , driving them to take timely action, and building a following of new supporters to engage for recurring giving campaigns. . That structure makes it simpler to plan content for weeks or months at a time.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing goals often focus around building recognition, fostering community, and increasing your funds raised. Investing in marketing helps you build a foundation for growth, community engagement, and impactful change. However, marketing for nonprofits can come with its difficulties.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Call to Action. JUST for fun!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re smart and build revenue projections into your plan, you’ll have a good idea of cash flow for the year. You can build both warm touches into your plan to make donors feel good as well as many chances throughout the year to give. A building that lends itself well to a tour, like a shelter or a school. All of them!

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

In the following blog post, we will delve into practical strategies to help your nonprofit maximize its efforts during the crucial calendar year-end period. Stay tuned to discover actionable insights that can truly make a difference. It goes without saying, but calendar year-end is a critical time for many nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

The challenge is to reach our audiences where they are, in that moment, with compelling content and a call-to-action… Not exactly what siloed organizations are best at. The messaging itself is almost a function of way the internal team is structured and communicating. Build story-gathering into your process.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Think of automation as a tool to help your team focus on the uniquely human skills of creativity, relationship building, and critical thinking that only they can bring to their fundraising roles. Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. Ready to Get Started?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That is, 80% of the desired actions are completed by 20% of the audience. These numbers are made possible largely by major gifts, which typically make up the majority of what is fundraised by an organization each calendar year. In almost every industry, the 80/20 rule applies to nearly all aspects of a business.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Use these to build your event ticketing plan and get selling! Provide clear event details, including ticket prices and benefits, to encourage immediate action. Use compelling subject lines, appealing visuals, and a strong call to action to entice recipients to purchase tickets. You can check it out below!

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! The 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar is ready for upload right into your Google or Outlook Calendar with a single click. Drop us a line!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

The participants were amazing and came up with some terrific strategies and action plans. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Here’s the list: Function.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Building an online community allows your organization to engage with your supporters on a personal level. Engagement.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Their latest iteration, titled “Radical Impact” will bring together over 25,000 nonprofit professionals across three days and 75+ high-impact sessions to provide them with actionable next steps in their fundraising and marketing efforts. The theme of the 2023 Cause Camp conference is “Lessons in Building Momentum.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation. One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. My answer: Yes!

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Create a direct mail and email calendar and checklist. During the Year-End Fundraising Fair session, “How To Build A High-Performing Online Site For Year-End With CauseVox” Jenna Notarfrancesco shared three examples of successful online year-end campaigns that used CauseVox’s digital fundraising platform. The Structure of Google Ads.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

Schedule time on your calendar monthly for training so it doesn’t drop to the bottom of the priority list again! When you have a portfolio management meeting on the calendar, it will drive ongoing attention and activity. Tons of organizations are offering free training – including Blackbaud! This is important because….

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2018

By sitting down quarterly to review communication calendars, marketers and fundraisers can strengthen calls to action with educational, promotional, and fundraising components that reach all of their target audiences. A mutual communication calendar can even facilitate logistics like consistent verbiage or timing of messages.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

As your nonprofit starts to build a new website, you may immediately run into questions or roadblocks. How should your website be structured? Your CMS should provide you with the tools and functionality to build out the exact website you want, without any confusion or frustration. What content do you want to display up front?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar?

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

When you create a unique hashtag for your event, continue to encourage attendees to use the hashtag to create content, giving you access to user-generated content that you can re-share among your community to build trust and authenticity. . Build a post-event landing page. Host monthly events with a “town hall” structure.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar is ready for upload right into your Google or Outlook Calendar with a single click. Name (a-z).

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Use a Consent Agenda A consent agenda gives you a way of structuring your meeting so that you can handle the routine things quickly, leaving more time for important conversations. This will hopefully build her comfort level and help her to become a stronger contributor. Is your landlord selling your building? You know David.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more. Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants. Thanks for being here.

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Bloomerang

JULY 16, 2021

I also know there’s a start date on the calendar for a new job that’s kind of a fresh go. ” Informal relationship building helps create a collegial culture, which can be hard to build. Improve content, design, calls-to-action, welcome emails and more. That helps and is nice to have. .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly. And as fundraisers, this is really important because it grounds us in the value of building relationships with people. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Purposes for content strategy include: Defining a Messaging Hierarchy to prioritize messages you’d like to convey on your website and building consensus among your content creators. We then assign actions to each page/section of content. Editorial Calendar – spreadsheet or Word doc. Deliverables. What’s Next. Stay tuned!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

By creating structure, holding and protecting your time for the people, passions and priorities in your life, you will be able to commit to each moment fully. Use your calendar to block off personal meetings (from a date night to parent teacher conference meetings) just like you do at work and hold to it just like you would a conference call.

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