Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

A mom of 2 and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, she is the author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits , a call-to-action for nonprofits to use stories to accomplish their missions. She’s also a #donorlove champion for life. Kelley helps nonprofits advance their brands for good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2014

You not only get a great mobile wireless plan, but through their nonprofit giving partners, a person in need will receive a mobile device loaded with content to help break the cycle of poverty and empower their life. I’ve signed up and love the fact my my mobile broadband hotspot is helping someone in need! It’s easy to switch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs. Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. The organization works to educate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. All are captured here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model. KD Paine, my co-author of the Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, has the best way of explaining it in this post about the continuum of engagement.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2021

Whether you are just starting a career, making a mid-life change, or are looking for one last flourish before retirement, it’s important to dispel some of the common myths about working at a nonprofit. If you are starting a career with a nonprofit , know that it could be one of the toughest assignments of your life. Let’s dive in!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Author: Vinay Bhagat. I am also grateful to each team member who has helped reinforce and add to our culture – be it through organizing volunteer days, giving each other kudos for successfully completed projects, to ensuring the hiring bar was kept as high as possible. Today, Friday May 4, 2012, is my last day at Convio.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

Penelope Burk, author of Donor-Centered Fundraising , has proven donors care about promptness. If you want your donors to stay uplifted by their philanthropy (and, as a corollary, if you want to continue to feel satisfied in your work with donors), then you’ve got to practice gratitude as a way of life. No arguments. Opportunities.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And maybe not take everything so seriously because life is serious and life is hard, but we should be having a good time. So most of you are hoping to get strategies about how to strengthen your volunteer donor and staff relationships and sense of community. . I’m going to commit to serving it by being a volunteer.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

I love this fact, 50% are also volunteers. The volunteer give 56% more than those who don’t. This is why we should try to engage our donors and give them these experiences and invite them to volunteer. Other things, you should have your volunteers in there. Who are those volunteers that are also donating?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Take Wag Love Fest for example, they have identified their target donor: pet owners who have a very special bond with their furry friend and would do anything to see them live a long, healthy life! When beneficiaries, volunteers, or staff members share their experiences, it adds an element of authenticity that donors can connect with.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

It just suddenly means they got caught up in life and they’re busy and they need to be reminded. . Just remember, it is not personal if they don’t give, it’s just life. Again, they are volunteers. The donor acknowledges that, that this volunteer is taking the time out to attend this meeting with the staff.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Volunteering. She quit me and now she is a lifeguard living her best possible life this summer, working at a community pool and having the best time of her life. I was super excited about life and I was fresh to death in my Old Navy gear in the ’90s. I’m just resetting my life. What else do we have?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And one of the things that often occurs to me about mindshare that I think we lose sight of in nonprofits is that mindshare has a shelf life. And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. By “finite” what I mean is they have a short shelf life.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

If you all don’t know Jen, I don’t know what you’re doing with your life. But here is the catch, the more optimistic part of me say, “You know what, if one person can love that one person who has hurt the most in their life, then understanding people loving people is probably quite enough a job to figure out.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

That’s when I made that switch, I closed the book on one chapter and I said, “Okay. I was offered not only by my supervisor, but also had some volunteers that offered and served as references or connections for me as well. Ephraim: Excellent. ” And then Monday morning I transitioned. Opening up a new book.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This book was not a multiple author project; I was generating 99.9% I would solicited a few respected colleagues directly to review either the entire manuscript or a specific chapter, based on their expertise and availability. They completely erased any bias I had against working with volunteers I didn't know personally. (It

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s like I get chest pains when I hear a client say to me, “I’m giving all of our board members access to the database, and they’re going to go in and enter donor data,” or, “I’m having one of these volunteers or a high school student come in and enter donor data.” Do not set someone lose.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

I’m the first to admit, my entire life is in all of these Excel spreadsheets because I have a goal, and I’m backing up, and what does it look like this year? Get another volunteer.” But if you’re a one-person shop, the board, part-time volunteers, what do you think? Let’s push toward it.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc. Present.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. Formstack :: formstack.com. FotoFlexer :: fotoflexer.com.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

She’s a board member for the YNPN in Boston for the Massachusetts Chapter of Democrats for Education Reform. She’s super involved in the AFP chapter there in Massachusetts. And then as Steven mentioned, I’m really involved with my AFP chapter. Also a board member. All over the place. So thanks for doing this.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Louis, a volunteer-led organization that I was on the board for, and I now manage the Friends of Pedal, which is a similar group as Pedal the Cause. We need to be thinking about the motivations of the volunteers we want to engage. About 54% are interested in volunteering in some way. And my contact information is there as well.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Author of two books, one just came out last February. Julia: If you’re not using Canva, what are you doing with your life? So the very first bucket of people are your supporters, what do they value, what do they want to know more about, so how can you add value to their life, what motivates them, what drives them to participate.

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