Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Physical preparation in the business world is less about becoming a Navy SEAL and more about learning how to set goals, overcome challenges, and get in the habit of incremental improvement. "And we can all benefit from a strategic way to approach problems and decisions," he adds. To take command, you must prepare, analyze, decide and act.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. After you decide on your goal, think about the specific questions you want to ask. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. You can even interview beneficiaries, volunteers, staff, or board members to give your telethon viewers a look into the impact your organization is having on your community.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Most people don’t write grants with this in mind. So instead of just talking about the wide needs as if it’s a fact, include: testimonials, statistics, reports, articles, interviews, etc. Now that you have a problem statement that is anchored in research, you will just flip it around so that it becomes the goal of your grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I’m supporting the organizations working on the front line and I’m doing the best I can to fight homelessness.&# Mark is an expert at using social media to connect his work on the ground with a broader network of people and organizations who share his goal. If you’re not listening, your organization has a closed mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

With that in mind, here are nine marketing lessons other nonprofits can take away from charity: water. It’s uncommon for a nonprofit to spend time developing and articulating their unique value proposition, but this is one area in which organizations should act like companies. Keep in mind that not all stories need to be long-form.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A volunteer recruitment letter is a more formal way of soliciting volunteers, but you can have your current volunteers personalize them for the prospects they have in mind. Your volunteers should be able to clearly articulate what your organization stands for and what makes it worth volunteering for.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. We’ve been getting to know each other over the past few months.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to find an incredible professional to work for in an institution that was small enough that I could actually make a contribution. For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in. I started meeting people through the blog--both those I interviewed and early readers who commented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. Staff Interviews. Clients Interviews.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

Museums often pursue the dual goals of presenting accurate, objective information while encouraging visitors to think for themselves, take a stand, engage with the issue at hand. These goals are often contradictory, if not opposing, in nature. Zinn once said in an interview that his goal with the book was "quiet revolution."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. Chris Pirillo comes to mind. Kari came to my house a half hour before the interview went live. I used them to answer some of the questions and to make a few points.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. So our goal is to be done at the top of the hour, but if we’re having more questions, we’ll just stay here and answer them till you’re done asking questions. So these things are floating through our minds all day long. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I interviewed Steven on my podcast, Smart Communications Podcast, about his book. And when I started researching this book, one of my goals was to do that, was to come up with a definition that the nonprofit sector might embrace and use to answer the question, “What is communications in a nonprofit?”

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. Keep in mind that many visitors will evaluate your website in seconds. Nonprofit and association website design is often understood subconsciously. Graphic design elements.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

During the course of the study, your organization will invite major stakeholders to one-on-one interviews. During these one-on-one interviews, your nonprofit has the unique opportunity to gain direct supporter feedback in an intimate setting. The purpose of these interviews is twofold: To learn more about your supporters.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

But as many of us have found out the hard way, on-time and on-budget projects do not necessarily mean a new system will realize proposed goals and yield expected value…or that users will even adopt the system as desired. Keep in mind that smaller, more clearly defined projects have a higher success rates than larger ones.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. Below are the 10 core values of Zappos.com, a company founded in 1999 with the goal of becoming the premiere destination for online shoes.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language. Darien Nature Center’s site has a unique goal—to inspire visitors to close their laptops and come out for a visit!

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