Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hybrid work is widely recognized as a coveted employee benefit, allowing employees to limit the number of days required to commute, yet providing the in-person training, mentoring and professional development opportunities that come with in-person work. The major drawback is the intentionality that is required for leaders and employees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. Now that ChatGPT and its ilk are out of the box, there’s no cramming them back in. We also provide meals to those that need them.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1].

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Nimble AMS

JULY 19, 2022

By offering a variety of professional and personal perks like remote and work from anywhere positions, unlimited paid time off, mentors for new staff, no-meeting Fridays, and camera-off meetings. Consider adopting similar benefits at your organization to best support your staff. The best methods to use when surveying your staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. If you know my work, you know I have a strong connection to Cambodia because I adopted two beautiful children from the country who are now teenagers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

The Center for Creative Leadership suggests leaders adopt a 70/20/10 Model for learning and development “which asserts that adults learn approximately 70 percent through on-the-job stretch opportunities, 20 percent through coaching and mentoring, and 10 percent through training programs to grow discreet skills.”.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Assessment and Adoption of Sales Methodologies. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Training & Development (Coaching and Mentoring). Technology Adoption and Optimization. Performance Metrics Analyses. Formulation of Incentives Program. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Operations. Sales Activities.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . A key message for an animal shelter might be “Every animal deserves a loving home and you can help care for those in our shelter until they’re adopted.”. See how that works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer. He introduced surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – He was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owned the first Greg Noll surfboard. We will also adopt the beach at Brunswick Avenue in his memory.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

I had an exceptionally knowledgeable mentor who ran an office engaged in multiple types of fundraising activities: endowment (major gifts), special project fundraising (grant writing), annual fund (with a corporate slant), membership, database administration, special events, and volunteer management. My mind was a sponge.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can also be used for those who coach, mentor, counsel and advise early career women, with insights and exercises for those you are supporting. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 3, 2020

Whether it be packing food boxes, mentoring youth, or assisting with general office work, volunteers contribute valuable time and energy to help organizations succeed. An investment must be made to develop a program that is run by paid staff and adopts key volunteer management practices. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

Despite the need to address this gap, PhotoDNA and related tools are currently facing attacks from both tech sector policies (like expanded adoption of end-to-end encryption ) and government regulation (such as the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive ). Brandon has been with IJM since 2016, when he left his nearly 18-year career in U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

These seven children are receiving a quality education, three meals a day, mentoring, and medical care. Thanks to you, these dogs will be protected as they wait to be adopted and go to their forever homes. Because of your gift and gifts from other generous donors like you, seven new students got to enroll in school!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Focus on things that can have ripple effects, like influencing your work to adopt a new travel policy, helping your sport club organize carpooling, or taking part in local decision making. We’ve mentored, advised, and convened people from across the world. It’s important that kids see us acting for their future.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2012

It is committed to matching mentors with Canada’s youth in. mentors, participants, and donors in the loop – and to ensure clear. Recently, more than 80 of the organization’s agencies adopted Microsoft Dynamics CRM , representing a user base of 745 people. across Canada waiting for mentors," he says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead. We are coaching foundations to adopt a capacity building mindset and provide more relevant support to their grantee partners. I am happy to say that after two years we, at the Accelerator, have a much stronger plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Young volunteers and interns who are lacking in the longer view of mobile and social media can quickly advance provided they are mentored by experienced communications or development staff, or given access to quality training.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

. • They''ve also launched the Ecoviate Mentorship Program - so far it''s very informal, they''re mentoring other youth around the world. Ideation process: "I''ve always identified as an environmentalist and an inventor" – Param will sketch something out and then reach out to his mentors to develop it in a pragmatic way.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2018

It seems pushy, or gauche, to insist that passersby check out the art center or adopt environmental habits. So big churches like Redeemer spend time mentoring and funding church plants. Their evangelism makes them creative, courageous hustlers when it comes to inviting new people into their work. Instead of evangelizing, we hedge.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

. – Coordinate virtual meet and greets for individual animals up for adoption (via live streams). Facilitate virtual mentoring, college application review, or interview skills workshop, like Mission Graduates is doing. Urgent issues. Specific examples of virtual solutions. Disruption of young people’s education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Because it took longer than anticipated to formulate the objectives, we didn't have opportunity to explore the adoption/resistance issues. . This points to a great opportunity for reverse mentoring and working across generations. Constant dance between understanding the tools and not leading with them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 17, 2014

We have also been able to piggyback on the foundation’s existing hard infrastructure (such as office space and technology) and soft infrastructure (such as tacit knowledge and mentors)”. Government t often then adopts these innovations, institutionalizes the programs and scales them up for large social change.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

The next step for the winners is incubation: mentors will help the app developers hone their products for distribution in app stores and marketplaces. The Public Choice Award: Rollerblading map of Warsaw is an app for rollerbladers that lets users easily map and share recreational routes. What's Next for Apps4Warsaw. spanhidden.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

I am so grateful to Colorectal Cancer Coalition’s founder Nancy Roach for taking a chance on me and mentoring me through the early years. Now, it’s like they’ve adopted me and I’m moving in. And on a personal note, you can practically eat off the floor of my data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 17, 2014

We have also been able to piggyback on the foundation’s existing hard infrastructure (such as office space and technology) and soft infrastructure (such as tacit knowledge and mentors)”. Government t often then adopts these innovations, institutionalizes the programs and scales them up for large social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

There has been a lot of adoption of social media, particularly in the areas of entertainment. She has seen this in a mentoring program for women engineers. There are over 1 million people on Facebook in her country.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Grant investments no longer need to be in dollars only, they often are in partnership, mentoring, guidance and connecting those grant investments to the people who can help them reach their goals.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

About the same time, CASE released an alumni engagement whitepaper which identified four primary areas to measure alumni engagement: Volunteering: being a career mentor or serving on a board. As we worked through how we could add value to our alumni’s lives, we realized we needed a way to define and measure alumni engagement. Our Takeaway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. When I get out into the real world and come in contact with people who are no early adopters of Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

I also liked Pulitzer prize-winning author Dr. Robert Coles' advice in the Volunteerism section about how to avoid, "the dangers of smugness and self-importance that can come upon a person who sees himself as reaching out to others."

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

With clear benefits to the organization and the sector, the question becomes: what type of leadership development strategy should nonprofit organizations adopt, and how should they execute it? The organization is strategic about who it is investing in, and how it is investing in that person.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Carr demonstrated a sustained, committed effort through his whole career to mentoring the careers of journalists of color and creating sustainable entryways into journalism (including doing away with unpaid internships at the Atlantic Monthly ). Carr's career and the outpouring of grief from journalists of color shows us a path forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Ten years ago, before my son Harry arrived, I volunteered as a mentor for the Computer Club House in Boston. One of the participants was Ashley Boyd from Momsrising who has a significant amount of expertise as an early adopter of social media and genersously shared a lot of what they've learned. Joyful Funerals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? New power and old power leaders would have opportunities to learn from and mentor each other. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Drivers vary from widening access and participation; to career mentoring and networking; to business, civic, or community engagement; to continuous learning; and more. It cannot and should not be all about fundraising. You want interoperability, yes, but with a single point of accountability.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2022

To maximize professional development across teams, encourage mentoring relationships between senior staff and newer employees. By applying engaging content like videos, graphs, and quizzes in myTrailhead modules, USITT ensured their constituents adopted crucial association information. . . Maximize your software product adoption.

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