Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

and Amazon included), and presents a proven expedient route to start-up success. Developing and evolving a solid business model , rather than agonizing over writing a formal business plan, with attention to their venture’s unique value, target segments, key partners, and creating a customer relationship “feeling.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Jim Fruchterman and Marcia Adler During our party, we also honored Social Profit Network's Robert Levenson, the Skoll Foundation and the Omidyar Foundation which provided vital philanthropic funding to expand Bookshare over the last decade. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. copyright law.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. cut funding for drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. WildAid uses a proven track record of success with a unique model that will support anti-wildlife consumption and anti-poaching in Asia and Africa, with the support of donations and awareness.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

and Amazon included), and presents a proven expedient route to start-up success. Schroeder calls this The Lean Model Framework. He was also involved in the initial branding and marketing launches for Amazon, ESPN Online, Travelocity, and Yahoo! He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founder of Yahoo!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

Think of Amazon, where you simply go online and purchase the product and it arrives at your door. This can be a great option for nonprofits looking to sell merchandise as a way to raise funds or promote their cause. Dropshipping can be a convenient and cost-effective way for nonprofits to sell merchandise and raise funds.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 3, 2014

FirstGiving was designed specifically for nonprofit organizations (versus being built on a business model and then adapted for nonprofits). If you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, check out GiveZooks , Fundly , JustGive.org and Amazon SimplePay Donations for some more options. of the donation, plus $0.30. FirstGiving.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 27, 2017

FirstGiving was designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, instead of being built on a business model and then adapted for nonprofits. If you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, check out GiveZooks , PaymentSpring , JustGive.org and Amazon SimplePay Donations for some more options. Network For Good’s DonateNow.

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Classy

JUNE 2, 2021

Through our analysis of nonprofit trends, we found seven key steps that successful nonprofits leverage to raise funds for their missions. . Gen Z is particularly used to the subscription model. We’ve seen this with face-recognition authorized payment through Apple Pay and one-click purchases on Amazon.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

For example, if you are raising funds for a much-needed van and someone donates a van that meets your organization’s needs, you can close that campaign and focus your efforts elsewhere. It may be older, smaller, a different model, and less-than-perfect. Cool, right? But, it’s yours!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

TechSoup has long sent our old phones to the 911 Cell Phone Bank , a nonprofit that provides emergency cell phones and funds to meet the unexpected and urgent needs of law enforcement and disaster victims. Here's his insight: " Like anything, the cell phone donation/recycling model is driven by economics. Phones 4 Charity.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Today Bookshare adds around 3,000 books per month to the collection, with our publisher and electronic distribution partners supplying most of these books, at the same time as they go to electronic retailers like Amazon. Department of Education Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. It is the newest fundraising model of these three, and spreading wildly as a way to get individual projects or ideas off the ground. Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consider auctioning off a streaming service package with one-year subscriptions to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime, and Disney+. Cars A car can be an exciting big-ticket auction item, especially if you can get your hands on a vintage model.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

Instead of scaling community giving and philanthropy and empowering their local nonprofits to use crowd funding, Give Local America Day amplified frustration, panic, hopelessness, and anger. That can’t scale unless there is the technical capacity of a giant like Amazon or Facebook is involved.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Auctions Auctions are a major source of funding for a lot of nonprofit associations because they engage the competitive spirits of supporters. Of course, they’re also challenging to manage as you’re handling the donations of items on one end and funds on the other. Organizations can gain funds through entry fees and individual pledges.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

This tool is exactly what it is says—it gives people who are passionate about their cause a way to raise funds by creating a different type of event. If they see a cool gadget they need, they head to Amazon and get free two-day shipping. Take that model and apply it to your organization. And that’s okay. In fact, it’s great!

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Is your organization using a recurring model for revenue? In this post, we’ll discuss more specifically why the recurring giving model is beneficial to adopt, how to launch it, and how to keep it going. Think about your Netflix, Spotify, or Amazon Prime subscription. This is a recurring revenue model.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin useful school-supplies you need with links to Amazon product pages that parents can buy for the school. That might mean the new school opening, the elder-care center, the new hospital wing, or the playground you funded to help revitalize the neighborhood. Build a Board of images modeling healthy food choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

The majority of the funds being raised on Instagram are coming from the “Donate” button on profiles, but that requires asking followers to visit your nonprofit’s profile to donate. That said, when “Donate” buttons come to posts in the feed – that will be a gamechanger!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change. The first was the ebook.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I was struck, looking at the Amazon page for the book, by one of its negative reviews. We’ll spend the least time here, since these are the people who are presumably being served well by the co-creation models at hand. Consider again the Amazon reviewer madhatter. our returners and core audience, who’ve been there done that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Salesforce is an inaugural founding member — thanks to Phil Bennett, who is now an independent technology consultant for the anti-slavery sector — and works closely alongside the other member companies Amazon, BT, and Microsoft with Business Social Responsibility as our Secretariat.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Amazon, Facebook, and Ebay have all had ways for consumers to donate through their platforms for years, but what is different about this trend is that a specific charity is leveraging a technology platform to source free or discounted supply to meet its demand. " And then there's the personal causes funding service, Go Fund Me.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

They figured out how to use Amazon and apps and all kinds of stuff. The chief operating officer in the ’50s developed this model that is true for all of us, and it’s called the J Curve. So there’s tons of different models of governance, and you don’t need anything fancy, trust me. Like a funny J.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

These trends are all part of the New Normal, and will increase competition for a relatively stable pool of funds, as well as put pressure on organizations to fulfill their missions and meet ever-increasing demands for services. And, for better or worse, this New Normal is not going away anytime soon. A Delicate Balance.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

” You can find it on Amazon, but I’m going to sort of give you a cheat sheet today and share some of the principles in it with you so you don’t have to buy the book. And sometimes, when people write their organization’s case statement, the impulse is to write about what the money will be used to fund.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

They differ in many ways – how they raise funds, their approach to technology, the events they attend, whether or not they engage in advocacy, just to name a few. The growth of peer-to-peer social networks like Facebook enables a new model – a constituent-driven model - for giving and volunteering.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

They differ in many ways – how they raise funds, their approach to technology, the events they attend, whether or not they engage in advocacy, just to name a few. The growth of peer-to-peer social networks like Facebook enables a new model – a constituent-driven model - for giving and volunteering.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

OPF is preparing to convert their model into a web platform where third parties can start their own 1% circles, which will diversify the geographic reach and problem focus of this model. Crowd funding. The crowd funding model uses the web to pool financial support for projects from large groups of individuals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

One Mango Tree uses a fair trade model to provideincome generating opportunities for women artisans inimpoverished and conflict-ridden areas of the globe. They fund programs that foster good health, education, and economic self?sufficiency Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (December 22, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 6.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. 25 These companies are wedded to a model of platform capitalism and do not advance notions of sharing rides or homes in the absence of hefty profit potential. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3

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Candid

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This interweaving allows us to understand the relative contributions of donor-advised funds (DAFs) to charities, for example, or how social businesses stack up against the usual suspects of tax-exempt nonprofits in their impact on social good. Join us for a webinar on October 27 for a detailed introduction to Candid’s U.S.

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