Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These types of leaders also model and directly encourage a culture of learning inside their organizations. Advice : Ask for advice. With only 152 pages, it’s a quick read that’s packed with helpful advice for leaders who truly want to excel. They are information extractors. Share your results and say thank you.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

In our models, we assume that astronauts are intelligent, that they’re experts in their technical areas, and that they have at least some teamwork skills. Charlie Judy, Chief People and Culture Officer at Intelligent Medical Objects, and another contributor to our book, shared this advice about the value of clarity.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

Our colleague, Hugh Lee, owner of Fusion Productions, had this advice on the value of correctly matching people and responsibilities. You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.” The digital age is all about leadership.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Reactions to your advice or feedback often surprise you. But most IT programs don’t offer a minor in getting everyone around the campfire to sing Kumbaya. If you are uncertain whether you are up to the task, these are signs that your skills could use improvement: People frequently respond negatively to a comment you thought was harmless.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model?

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Having to take over as a young leader for a beloved department head who passed away, the best advice I got was that I needed to build trust in order for the others to follow me.” During a development retreat, the board discussed various governance models and how they could shift perspective to maximize CITE’s potential,” Sharon recalled. “We

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the economy recovers in some ways and dips in others, and elections dominate political giving, 2024 is shaping up to be a truly unique—and potentially disruptive—year for funding models. Sharing our learning—in white papers, guides, webinars, and conferences—is a key way we follow our own advice to build trust and community in our sector.

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Our mission is to disrupt the traditional accounting model through technology, innovation, and a radically client-focused approach that truly empowers nonprofits and social enterprises. IRS Recommends This for Identity Theft Prevention Don’t Ignore This Nonprofit Financial Management Advice From NTEN Worried About Identify Theft?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

For nonprofits looking to sharpen their communication strategies, CompassPoint's 24th Annual Nonprofit Day offered a wealth of advice. In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications.

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.orgSource

MARCH 20, 2023

Digitalization is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities; it is the process of moving to a digital business.” Said another way, digitization takes an analog process and changes it to a digital form without any different-in-kind changes to the process itself.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. As it turns out, these models were originally developed decades ago and many are written in Fortran !

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In this episode, we focus on the devastating impact COVID shutdowns and restrictions had on fundraising, how nonprofits pivoted and embraced new digital tools to transform their fundraising models in record speed. The post CharityVillage Connects: Post-Pandemic Fundraising and Beyond appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Blue Fox

MARCH 17, 2021

Per their advice, here are three financial reporting items your organization should keep a keen eye on. Revenue model structure. Reviewing your nonprofit’s revenue model monthly allows for adjustments to be made when funding is a little wonky. Side note: Our team can help with that! Restricted vs. unrestricted funds.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 3, 2023

Yet, are you stuck trying to recreate a model of service from 2019 or earlier? Join two of my co-editors, Doug Bolton and Jerome Tennille, and me for a conversation about service days — the benefits and challenges — and hear their advice to rethinking these approaches to volunteering and community impact.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

shared this valuable advice. If you don’t have the budget to provide these resources, you probably need to rethink staffing and business models. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. My colleague, Joanna Pineda, CEO and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix International Inc.,

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ideally, one of these meetings will be a welcome from the executive director, which includes his or her unique advice and views on board service. A buddy system helps to reinforce the culture and model the behavior that you want to promote within the organization. Celebrate Success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Question: What is the best first action to take for a business leader to become more strategic and to follow your book's advice?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Like the stickers are for food delivery, the trust as a service model is a great opportunity for most businesses today. The model is defined by two mains steps. Historically, the trust as a service model has been used to grow businesses, get new customers, and set industry service/safety standards.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Today’s question come from a nonprofit employee who want advice on how to budget and pay for capital campaign fundraising expenses: . They summarized pros and cons of each funding model, ultimately settling on a combination. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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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. Older models tended to be AMS-centric, leading to siloed data, static reports, and that trapped feeling.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Accelevents’ flexible self-service model allowed the Chamber to work on their own timeline and host the event whenever they wanted. Looking for advice on how to go virtual ? Follow Amanda McLoughlin’s advice for making the most of your online experience: “Test it out! I think this may be the future!”.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in digital analytics tools. . Below is what Jay Baer of Convince and Convert describes as a five-step “Digital Analytics Maturity Model.” . CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s useful to invest in wealth screening before a capital campaign. . To do so, apply predictive modeling, wealth screening, or wealth appending, as necessary, as tools to narrow down your portfolio and perhaps develop target ask amounts. .

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Candid

APRIL 19, 2022

This shift in funding from in-person events to major gift solicitations not only kept our work alive, it also helped us explore a more sustainable, long-term funding model. . My advice to other organizations in similar positions is don’t give up! Lessons learned .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But if we look at for-profit companies using the sponsored tweet model (e.g. I know it is a different animal - a campaign implemented by a charity without a for-profit marketing motive lurking beneath. retweet this message and our company will donate $x to charity), there is a better a benchmark.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. The Governing Board took the Advisory Board’s advice to heart and created a series of achievable goals rather than a hard deadline. The Advisory member then asks guests for a donation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. They will have good advice about ways to structure your nonprofit finances responsibly. Recognize that you’re a small business. These tips can help: .

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

When funders model vulnerability and power-consciousness , it signals to grantees that they can show up more fully. This often includes engaging trusted advisors to help assess the situation, provide unbiased advice, and help set realistic goals and objectives. Solicit and Act on Feedback: Philanthropy doesn’t have all the answers.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? – – Too Greedy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Jenn Lim Today, Lim shares these additional insights, thoughts and advice about four-day workweeks: Question: In addition to the research supporting a four-day workweek, why do you believe more companies should adopt this practice? And workplaces designed on old-school factory-style model/thinking are becoming obsolete.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Question: What is the best first action to take for a business leader to become more strategic and to follow your book's advice?

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Blue Fox

DECEMBER 19, 2019

From QuickBooks hacks to advice on how to talk finance with a board of directors, the Blue Fox blog has it all. The Blue Fox mission is to disrupt the traditional accounting model through technology, innovation, and a radically client-focused approach that truly empowers nonprofits and social enterprises.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 23, 2020

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is how the traditional development model puts up a lot of barriers to engagement. When I talk about the traditional development model, I’m talking about annual giving, major giving and planned giving. The traditional development model uses what’s called a ladder of engagement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership: Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart Kouzes and Posner explain that leaders who use these five practices more frequently than their counterparts: Create higher-performing teams. Enhance motivation and the willingness to work hard.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

The authors draw decades of their professional experience and on knowledge and advice from 24 of the world’s most successful leaders to identify the seven key practices to thriving as a leader : Invest in your best self. Lead inclusively by modeling it for others and creating a culture of equity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models. My idea was completely legal!

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