Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. So, what did these resilient role models have in common? Wiens is a senior fellow at The University of Pennsylvania, and the director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education Program.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. Embrace Adaptability It may be hard for “button-up” organizations to introduce a more casual attitude. These roles need not be filled by the management team.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. What attitudes toward evaluation are present? Consider using your executive director. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 19, 2009

They finally realized a couple of years ago that they were going to HAVE to do some fundraising if they were going to maintain their service level, so they hired their first Director of Development. One of the biggest problems in this organization is the Executive Director. Basically, he gave the ED an attitude adjustment!

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Media Cause

JULY 21, 2021

I worked with Katey, Amy, and Rob Shaw (Art Director) to come up with design goals that I could work towards in order to build a strong foundation. I have both Cody Damon (Co-Founder) and Sarah Ackerman (Director of Copy + Content) to thank for graciously offering me my first projects. Going All In.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

Welcome to the real world of “more than a great fundraising technician”—and that holds true for pretty much any senior-level position, e.g., program director, finance officer, and of course the ED/CEO.”. And your attitude will be contagious. Better yet, try them all: Begin with your executive director. — Simone Joyaux.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

But CEOs who head exceptional teams reject an egocentric attitude. In my role as a consultant, these are four core qualities that I’ve observed. If you are the CEO, you have the primary responsibility for creating a culture that promotes these positive attitudes. What chemistry creates an exceptional team?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2012

Norman, MBA, Director of Research, Behavioral. Imagine my surprise when in my new position as Director of Research, Behavioral Health and Wellness, I was subjected to audits by not one or two regulatory bodies, but by four: the Food and Drug Administration, the State, the County, and the Regional Behavioral Health Authority.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

For most agencies, everyone understands each person’s role and how they fit together to form one collaborative, well-oiled machine. Determine if the agency’s job descriptions for Board Chair, CEO and its directors are up to date. Staff and volunteers are smart and can sense when all is not well with leadership.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Beth is the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at PCI and Randy is Director, Architectural Precast Services. In my role, I oversee departments that interact with employees throughout the organization. Behavior and attitudes evolve over time. On a recent Association 4.0 Beth described her feelings this way. “In

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

In a recent white paper, Best Practices for Managing Teleworkers: Changing Attitudes, Changing Ways (registration required), analysts from Frost and Sullivan discuss practical steps managers can. good fit based on job role, personality, work style, and so on. Teleworking is great for location-neutral job roles but not all.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With his bright green hair, crystal blue skin and environmentally-focused attitude, Captain Planet was the ultimate do-gooder. The Stanford Social Innovation Review cites three issues that stop nonprofit mergers from happening : getting the boards aligned, finding roles for senior staff and blending the brands. We Can Work It Out.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Having this standing committee become more active will force the right conversations about roles and responsibilities, composition, orientation, effectiveness, and the right leadership. Board member performance needs to be assessed at all levels, and then the aggregate data reported back to directors.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 30, 2014

You need a board of directors like you need baking soda. In short, you are giving your employees the option to take on other roles that interest them—so they can function as a direct mail designer who also helps with grant writing, or a blogger who also loves event planning. You need a tech person like you need eggs.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests. Sounds good?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 31, 2016

She is the longest-serving employee at the Lodestar Center with the exception of the Executive Director, Dr. Robert Ashcraft. But probably the most important part of all is understanding the role that the mission and vision have in the leadership of the organization. From there I became the executive director of a nonprofit in Seattle.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Discover how to communicate why donors should make a gift with Nathan Hill, Marketing Director @ NextAfter. Do you understand the importance of its role in fundraising? But that attitude will lead you to overlook some seriously important information that we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The study attempts to "disentangle whether people's varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites.". Patricia Lewis' role as Sr. This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. And the findings are, indeed, interesting.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 30, 2014

You need a board of directors like you need baking soda. In short, you are giving your employees the option to take on other roles that interest them—so they can function as a direct mail designer who also helps with grant writing, or a blogger who also loves event planning. You need a tech person like you need eggs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

IT is placed in the role of organizational nanny, responsible for curtailing computer use, as opposed to enabling it./. Flexibility has it’s own Return on Investment (ROI), particularly at nonprofits, where we generally have a lot more innovative thinking and opportunistic attitude than available budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning. Here's what she had to say about this role: Fine says that it is important to encourage individual activism and that social media has become the "extra organizational lifeblood" replacing memberships, the lifeblood of the pre-Internet activist world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Culture is an organization’s operating patterns of behavior, activities, and attitudes, influenced by a shared set of values and beliefs that characterize the way people work together. Does your Executive Director know where the organization stands? Making sure each department can access its data to answer their questions.&#.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

The top management of your organization helps to provide a role model by setting a meaningful example of how the rest of the staff should follow and embrace change. This begins with the CEO or president, who needs to articulate what she or he sees as the fundamental importance of dedicating staff time towards these goals.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

The whole 'we know how to spend your money better than you' attitude is condescending and false." And as the director of an organization rebounding from financial crisis, I'm thinking a lot about what messages support our future and how to encourage not just staff but our members and friends to think about the museums in those terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

StoryGarden is a web-based system for gathering and analyzing qualitative information about values and attitudes held by a community of people. The processes being used by StoryGarden are based on methods and processes conceived by Dave Snowdenm co-founding director of the IBM Center for Organizational Complexity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It’s nearly impossible to successfully fundraise for a cause you don’t fully believe in, so we brought in Molly McHugh, Grassroot Soccer’s Communications Director. Your generous gift provides role models, health education, life skills, and linkages to health services to young people in Africa at a critical point in their lives.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

And also a message from the executive director of how they’re moving forward. The attitude you present is assumed to be the attitude of your organization. So your attitude and your demeanor, they change so often throughout the week. Great questions, you guys. So we’re talking about tone. They’re it.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Haji initially stayed on, as Convios president, but stepped down from that role last month, although he remains a member of Convios board of directors. However, lack of data never stopped me from commenting, so here are a couple of thoughts: First of all, I suspect nonprofits play a different role in many countries.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Haji initially stayed on, as Convios president, but stepped down from that role last month, although he remains a member of Convios board of directors. However, lack of data never stopped me from commenting, so here are a couple of thoughts: First of all, I suspect nonprofits play a different role in many countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

It is a jack-of-all trades position: I do everything from helping to maintain our Intranet, manage our internal news bulletin, work with our Board of Directors, conduct research that helps shape the strategic direction of our organization, and more. What should AIUSA’s role be in improving or resolving those situations?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Unfortunately, for some directors, “sustainability” means “finding long-term ways to receive funding to do the same things we’ve been doing.” This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think about the future.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2012

By John Hoffman, Director of New Markets, ZeroDivide. It’s obvious by now that social media has played a huge role in shaping Americans’ attitudes toward LGBT issues. For the LGBT movement, inspiring, affirming content has been instrumental in helping people evolve in their attitudes toward gay people and toward gay rights.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

Somebody else has got to save the polar bears, I've got to save myself," is sort of the basic attitude. That whole kind of sickness and the relationship between the nationally oppressed minority groups and the majority group is something that we have a role, as people of color, in trying to sort through.

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