Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read. That reinvention led him to that 1973 hospital security director job.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

That’s where technology can make a real impact. Donor segmentation helps you use insights about donor preferences to engage supporters more deeply with your organization. Quantifying the impact and success of services and programs can be challenging, but it’s essential. This is how you show what success looks like.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment. If you can’t connect, you can’t lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment. If you can’t connect, you can’t lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2018

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment. If you can’t connect, you can’t lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2014

The forthcoming First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements — Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read books about mental illness and research risk factors and warning signs so you can better recognize when someone is in crisis and may need help. Donate to support their mission here. Donate to support their mission here. Donate to support their mission here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 30, 2020

Presence – Strengthening your inner capacity to pause between stimulus and response, so matters of effectiveness and impact drive decisions and actions, rather than old habits or knee-jerk impulses. As you read the book, you’ll learn how to: Prioritize, elevate, tolerate or eliminate tasks. Have sausage makers you can brainstorm with.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 13, 2014

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment. If you can’t connect, you can’t lead.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

She’s a go-to resource for nonprofit marketing and her new book is called The Nonprofit Marketing Guide ( get your copy here ). This interview is part of her virtual book tour; check out the full calendar of events. I talk about several ways to deal with that kind of fear in the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Presence – Strengthening your inner capacity to pause between stimulus and response, so matters of effectiveness and impact drive decisions and actions, rather than old habits or knee-jerk impulses. As you read the book, you’ll learn how to: Prioritize, elevate, tolerate or eliminate tasks. Have sausage makers you can brainstorm with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

As part of the research for our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , Aliza Sherman and I have been reading, interviewing, and researching self-care practices both for the individual and how nonprofit organizations can support it. We’ve come across examples of how nonprofit abuse self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The book is wonderful and before I share some of what I learned I have to tell you a story. And now on to the book. Value Metrics: These are a handful of metrics that support over-arching goals. These might include social impact, behavior change, saved time, or income. Peterson is the founder and senior partner.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Maximizing Nonprofit Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Fundraising In an era where resources are stretched thin and the need for positive change is greater than ever, nonprofits face the critical challenge of not just making an impact, but ensuring their efforts are sustainable in the long run.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 26, 2011

Whether it’s a book, a workshop, or a coach, investing in yourself has a tremendous impact on your nonprofit organization, its mission, and the people who benefit. The dividends from investing in your knowledge are many – new skills, new resources, improved commitment, an attitude adjustment – the list goes on.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Andy Gibson and David Wilcox , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney from Cass Business School, on a book about using new technologies for social benefit projects. I’ll be sure to post links to the book, online version, and so forth when it’s out! Keep it messy.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

This week, we're covering the third objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : energizing (chapter 6). Charlene and Josh focus on strategies for supporting promoters via ratings and reviews, custom communities, and ambassador programs. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum.

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BoardAssist

MAY 10, 2016

What are the trends that are going to impact your nonprofit in 2016? Crowdfunding can identify engage new supporters, bring in NEW major donors, and engage your current donors in something playful, social and mission-focused. And it has the potential to shift many attitudes for the better. What’s up for 2016?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Over the past few months, I've been doing research for a forthcoming book on relevance. One of the best parts of developing a book is learning new stories. For me, the early stage of writing a book is a treasure hunt--an excuse to seek out new examples and ideas that strengthen the story. But don't take my word for it.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Look for our book, published by Glass Heaven Convio WWF Publishing Co. While these tactics can help, you can also be successful without a name for your sustainer program, as long as you can educate your donors about the dramatic impact their monthly gift would have on the mission. This rising tide would raise all our boats.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.".

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Having them open doors to those patients perceived to be both grateful and capable of supporting the important work of physicians and their institutions is key to continued success. Those with true physician champions see the positive impact on their giving program. Track any feedback from doctors as well. Make it Fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. Often a breakthrough is accelerated by a good book – for Food: The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Courtesy of Jon Husband, publisher of Wirearchy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!) is an attitude , not a download.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Actually, I think that the two of you combined now hold the record for the most books written by a Bloomerang webinar guest. If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

Lisa is the author of the book, Selling with Noble Purpose. Lisa Earle McLeod Elizabeth McLeod The mother/daughter duo awhile back shared their insights about Millennials in the workforce and how managers can better support and retain their Millennial colleagues. Be absolutely explicit about the impact you have on customers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The presentation, hosted by Blackbaud and building on CFM’s TrendsWatch 2019 , touched on ways that museum workers can design their own self-care practices, how museums can support selfcare, and how museums can reform their organizational practices in ways that reduce the need for self-care. Readers can access a recording of the event here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Lisa is the author of the book, Selling with Noble Purpose. Lisa Earle McLeod Elizabeth McLeod The mother/daughter duo this week shared their insights about Millennials in the workforce and how managers can better support and retain their Millennial colleagues. Be absolutely explicit about the impact you have on customers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?" By the way, the Brooklyn team just won the Groundswell award for social impact , which is sort of like winning an Oscar for social media.) and watched the Museum 2.0 Thank you so much.

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