Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” -- Peter Drucker “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -- Dwight D. Truman “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. Eisenhower “Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. As I walked around delighting in the weirdness that is contemporary art, I realized how advantageous it can be to not have any permanent exhibits. Another fun thing I did in Chicago was go to the zoo in the dark, freezing cold. Use Your Space Creatively.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2020

Colleen surfaces several insights that are out of the control of arts organizations , such as the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine and the government lifting travel, movement and access restrictions. . Give your members and donors fun ways to post on social media when they’re at your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Once your website is designed and structured according to this technique, it becomes easier to update it when those needs change by asking these questions: Which tasks don’t apply anymore?

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Arts and cultural organizations are the sources of some of our favorite DipJar stories. Arts, culture, and performance are all personal passions for her. Since its founding, the theater has changed names and locations many times, but its commitment to its work and the community has never wavered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

It’s a quick way to hide your background but also to have fun with your colleagues when picking a background. Reminder: when you are not using it anymore, make sure you change the settings. Ice breakers and energizers are helpful to check in with your colleagues or even to share optimism and fun. Fun Zoom Backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” -- Peter Drucker “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -- Dwight D. Truman “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. Eisenhower “Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself.

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M+R

MARCH 4, 2024

Let us know here if you’re planning on attending any of these conferences — we’d love to say hi, buy you a drink, ply you with delicious conference session knowledge, and other fun stuff. Future-proofing teams for change? Building a stronger culture of philanthropy? Boy oh boy do we have thoughts. Will you be there?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

It’s harder to create a fun event when everyone is sitting at home in front of their computer. Go into the planning stage of your virtual event with a can-do attitude, knowing you can create something fun and meaningful. Plan a program that is fast-paced, engaging, and focused on the lives changed by your organization’s work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” The five different styles included: Educator, Creator, Visionary, Organizer, and Creator.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Now, before organizations jump onto the excitement wagon and just develop a mobile application, they must understand that gamification is not about making things “fun”. Some gamified mechanisms are about getting the user to just have fun, while others can accurately focus on educating the user through animations and graphic interfaces.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” -- Peter Drucker “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -- Dwight D. Truman “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. Eisenhower “Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” -- Peter Drucker “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -- Dwight D. Truman “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. Eisenhower “Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2021

The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” -- Peter Drucker “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -- Dwight D. Truman “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. Eisenhower “Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

And if you’re searching for fun and engaging ways to raise money, auctions and simple online events will get your donors excited to support your organization. Check out our comprehensive list to keep your fundraising campaigns fun and fresh for all of your donors. Designate a night for a few fun games of virtual bingo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

What sets this apart as philanthropy is, are you giving in a way that really affects your passions, your interests, what you really want to change in the world. When it comes to giving donations, I don''t think I''ve ever really thought about it that way: am I giving to what I really want to change in the world? a crisis happens (e.g.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

It feels like that's a way in which the arts can be visionary, be change agents, and also be really fun and playful, which is primary to living." - Gabriela Masala This month's Big Vision Podcast guest is Gabriela Masala talking about how to organize have fun do good flash mobs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The twelfth guest blogger in my have fun do good series series is Heather Meyer. How I Have Fun, Do Good As a child, I remember literally throwing myself around full-force without thinking too much about the consequences; I had plenty of bruises to show for it. As a child, having fun was an easy, natural way of being.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week. Excited that Issue Two of the NTEN: Change (A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders ) is out. Posted an interview with Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem , on the Arts and Healing Podcast. Subscriptions are free! It was awesome!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I figure I should practice what I preach, so here are some photos from my fun Friday in Berkeley and Oakland with a Move, Play, Reflect, Connect twist. I made some progress in the next book we're reading for my virtual social change book club : Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. A super fun Friday!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 20, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week • Finishing Kathy LeMay's book The Generosity Plan, and interviewing her for the Big Vision Podcast. Starting Jane McGonigal's book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2022

The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” -- Peter Drucker “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -- Dwight D. Truman “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. Eisenhower “Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 7, 2009

Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! As many of you know, in addition to writing for Have Fun * Do Good, I am also a Contributing Editor, with Beth Kanter , for the Social Change and Nonprofit section of BlogHer. I'd also be up for something arts related. blog blogging blogger fun Thanks for keeping an eye out for me!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

EngAGE is a nonprofit that changes aging, and the way people think about aging, by transforming senior apartment communities into vibrant centers of learning, wellness and creativity. The NOHO Senior Arts Colony and the Long Beach Senior Arts Colony will open in 2012. It profiles an innovative organization called EngAGE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marnie says that nonprofits should own the impact and not the to dos, but I asked her but who will actually do the work? She says it is a mix between doing and curating, but the we’ve got to change the “I’ll do it&# as the default organizational behavior. What do you have in store for the future?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Art that has personal meaning for your community is also a safe bet.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Working with arts organizations there are often concern that your constituent stories aren’t as impactful. There is a perception that you have to have dirt and stitches to change the world for the better. We are changing the world and there are stories to be told. Make it fun! Of course we know this is not the case!

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Make the day fun. Most importantly, board members should leave feeling motivated to make the changes necessary that will take your board to the next level of performance and impact so your mission can soar! They make the day fun. The best facilitators make their retreats fun and lively, and are quick-witted and funny themselves.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

As always, I read this article through the lens of our arts and cultural customers. As a result, I put together my perspective on this game changing technology for arts and cultural organizations. Unique to the arts and cultural space is the need for leveraging mobile devices for tickets. Are the same trends applicable?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2021

The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” -- Peter Drucker “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -- Dwight D. Truman “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. Eisenhower “Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Making friends was hard, but learning was fun. One of the reasons I stopped working as the program director for an arts education nonprofit five years ago was because I was so frustrated with the public school system we worked in. As Gloria Anzaldúa wrote, "I change myself, I change the world."

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

What this means is that over time, your fundraising approach should change to meet the needs of your growing organization. And the more of those people you have around you, the more revenue you’ll have and the more lives you can change. Make it a FUN event that people talk about for days afterward.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The event team had learned incredible flexibility from a year full of endless changes, and they were willing to adapt and try out new ideas to make it happen. With the pandemic still in full swing, The Dougy Center knew they had to get creative if they wanted to really engage their existing donors and reach new people. Their big gambit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. Teams worked on their zines until the end of the camp.

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