Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Take a nice deep breath, think about your life, and start writing. Now look back at your distractions list: What are those distractions in your life that you have to include? That plan guided my life. This was my LIFE DREAM. Every big result I have seen in life started as a declaration. What life are you living?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Cause Camp provides ample opportunity to network and form relationships with other nonprofit professionals and thought leaders. Cause Camp is enriched by the community-centered attitude that envelops you the second you walk in the door. Connections.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 5, 2010

If your organization is having trouble raising money right now and you’re blaming it on the economy, I want you to stop. Many of my clients are raising more money this year than last year. If you spend your day focused on how bad things are and how you can’t raise money, your thoughts become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

This year’s Digital Fundraising Summit is specifically designed to meet these needs: you’ll find out how to raise more while spending less time and money. Plus you’ll see some real life examples that help you see it in practice. Want more details? Check out the takeaways you’ll get during our sessions this year.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2014

Let’s apply nonprofit-logic to some day-to-day life choices: 1. You don’t have that kind of money. …Even if you can use that camera to start an awesome photography business on the side and through that create a permanent, life-long supplemental income (which will pay off for your camera costs within six months).

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore several aspects of volunteer management: recruitment, coaching, relationship building, and retention. You may be in dire need of a sponsorship chair and found someone that’s willing to help and is passionate about your cause , but asking for money isn’t in their wheelhouse.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Take a nice deep breath, think about your life, and start writing. Now look back at your distractions list: What are those distractions in your life that you have to include? That plan guided my life. This was my LIFE DREAM. Every big result I have seen in life started as a declaration. What life are you living?

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Game Life Los Angeles Course 52

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 5, 2010

If your organization is having trouble raising money right now and you’re blaming it on the economy, I want you to stop. Many of my clients are raising more money this year than last year. If you spend your day focused on how bad things are and how you can’t raise money, your thoughts become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

This was an award-winning filmmaker, who had spent years of her life, thousands of her own dollars, and probably a relationship or two to bring her poignant, hybrid, social issue documentary to the light of day (or in her case, a night on PBS following a limited theatrical release). This was no traditional case of post-partum blues.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 31, 2016

I am a strong advocate of volunteerism and have volunteered my entire life, so while I was at AFP I also volunteered at George Mason University to help it develop its nonprofit studies in its graduate program in Public Administration. The need for money today to run our programs sometimes drives short-range thinking.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations have at least a vague understanding of the perceptions, motivations, and attitudes of their audience— i.e. individuals give to a specific nonprofit because they support the nonprofit’s cause. Action: Create a strategy focused on community engagement, positive image-building, and relationship management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He talked about the importance of individuals having a "learning attitude" - that is someone who thinks about things and takes lessons away - regardless of the teacher. (I Critical to remember that networks are piles of people who have a relationship with each other. Relationships are built over food and drink.".

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

You’ve got to come from a place of thinking about love, not money. The gift is the first step towards joining our community.It’s the beginning of the relationship; not the end. That doesn’t transform a budding relationship into a bonded one. Offer supporters ways to engage that don’t involve money. Promptness.

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Forum One

JANUARY 4, 2024

To dig into how some nonprofits are leading the way with CX, we were pleased to speak with Ernestine Benedict , Chief Communications Officer at ZERO TO THREE , a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. We’re a nonprofit, so: no money, no mission! I do see a shift.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

But how do you breathe life into this metaphor and translate it into real-world sustainability for your organization? The board’s attitude towards fundraising. Cultivating relationships with individual donors, understanding their motivations, and keeping them engaged is vital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

Nonprofit association NTEN , consultants Common Knowledge and social networking software providers ThePort conducted a joint study of nonprofit organization and their use of and attitudes towards social networking tools. College kids know this stuff better than all of us, and they will work for free. Existence of a House Social Network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a company with many individuals personally invested in nonprofit work, we had tons of people who were excited to act as team captains as well as a community of people who would motivate one another as they competed to help their team raise as much money as possible. This year, they’ve selected Grassroot Soccer.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Prioritize Donor Stewardship Donor stewardship is the practice of building strong, long-lasting relationships with your donors. Nonprofit Fundraising Strategies by Channel There is no one right way to raise money for your nonprofit. you’ll have all the data you need to refine and improve with each successive ask. Check it out!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

You can then leverage this information to build relationships with these donors and encourage future donations. Conflict: Highlight the issues your protagonist faces and how it impedes their daily life. Simplify fundraising forms A common problem nonprofits face when they start raising money online is donation form abandonment.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Holding events is a great way for nonprofits to raise money, engage constituents, and raise their profile. And if you don’t have a solid event planning strategy in place, your nonprofit’s next gala, fundraiser, or walkathon could end up costing you more in time, energy, and money than what your event ends up raising.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. We had to readdress our value proposition and start raising serious money immediately. This isn’t surprising—it’s similar to the success the Brooklyn Museum has had building local relationships.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

I like that attitude and the way you framed it. And so, for me, it made sense to go ahead and make that leap, that what would have been for me a more intentional slow process of doing a little bit on the side for a few years and having more money in the bank to feel comfortable as a very risk averse person, making such a big career jump.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2020

Zoom has been a big part of my life for several years now and I’ve used it for board meetings, staff meetings, and committee meetings. In fact, lengthy phone calls that move the relationship forward should count as visits now. Anyone going out there during this crisis with a “rah-rah” salesperson attitude will rightly get crushed.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

You can then leverage this information to build relationships with these donors and encourage future donations. This means that the information you capture through online fundraising automatically syncs in Bloomerang, which helps you build relationships with donors and supporters so you can retain them for years to come.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I'm sure that you know this from personal experience - acting out of fear, for instance, in a relationship, or in an organization, is almost always a mistake - we can't think clearly in a state of fear. That's sort of trivial, but it certainly can affect one's mood and attitude. Helped to motivate you to make some change in your life.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I'm sure that you know this from personal experience - acting out of fear, for instance, in a relationship, or in an organization, is almost always a mistake - we can't think clearly in a state of fear. That's sort of trivial, but it certainly can affect one's mood and attitude. Helped to motivate you to make some change in your life.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Think about how much of that money is wasted on awkward gifts- the junk. Imagine that.

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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. People, when you have a lot of crisis in your life, hearing about an even bigger crisis is just depressing. We are going to use some of that money to train some of the young people in energy conservation, in renewable fuels.

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