Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The site contains data visualization tools, thanks to a collaboration with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at UMass Lowell. If you know of or have examples of data literacy curriculum for nonprofits or data empowerment for community organization, let me know in the comments. Why this resource?

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Data Literacy Boston Charlotte 101

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

Empowerment 41

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 41

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. They talked about community building. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. We can’t sit down and say, “let’s go build some community.” It is a group of people connected by something shared.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Join Krista, Libby, Lisa and many more inspirational speakers at the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions for sessions dedicated to nonprofit wellbeing and resilience. How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits? A: Provide people with a space to build physical and mental health.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. We submitted, with collaborators Aidmatrix, and made it to the finalist round. But even more important, it is enough for us learn, to collaborate, and to make change. The Importance of Collaboration.

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New Jersey Proposal Law Empowerment 44

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. We are now directly participating in the DAISY Consortium’s Transforming Braille project, which seeks to dramatically lower the cost of braille cell technology, the fundamental technical building block of a braille display. This is important here in the U.S.,

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We have the answers and the resources to help you join the AI revolution and prepare to build your first low-code app. For example, AI can accelerate low-code development by helping you build a workflow or an app just by using natural language, or it can generate content from data using large language models like GPT-4.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don''t let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 55

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

Business 40

Business Empowerment Authoring Roles 40

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Also, can form factions of different community boards representing different groups (i.e. So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We always had a group of 15-50 people together for intense brainstorming. Low on friction.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2013

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Skills Roles 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group. Orienting the Group.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

And Royal and Agnew build the case for why both enablement AND engagement are critical. Don't let your employees be part of these findings by various Hay Group surveys (cited by the authors) where they found that: 30 percent of employees indicate that they do not have enough authority to carry out their jobs effectively.

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Review Empowerment Authoring Skills 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Icebreakers can be done as pairs, small groups, and full group – and you can use a combination. The most important thing is that it has to relate to the content in some way. The KSTool Kit has a list of icebreakers and I’ve used many of them, but in this session I will model one or two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Foundation is to build women’s collective power in the U.S. They believe that when grassroots women’s organizations provide vital services to their communities, women can build new skills, step up as leaders, and mobilize for rights-based policies. Areas served: US & Canada. Foundation For Women. The mission of Ms. Mary’s Pence.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. We embed the product donation with a connection to the community and capacity building.&#.

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Network Change Technology Social 103

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Foundation is to build women’s collective power in the U.S. They believe that when grassroots women’s organizations provide vital services to their communities, women can build new skills, step up as leaders, and mobilize for rights-based policies. Areas served: US & Canada. Foundation For Women. The mission of Ms. Mary’s Pence.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

But anybody who's seen Cloverfield or I Am Legend knows what happens when a mass of people tries to cross a bridge to escape a bad situation: a bottleneck forms, infighting destroys group solidarity, and then something unforeseen destroys the bridge. (Or, " Who could argue with that? Money, it's a drag.

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. Once we've identified assets and needs, we seek out collaborators and project ideas. We start with the community and build to projects. You can form a community advisory group. A focus group. Subjects to Change was born. Hire new staff.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Frontline SMS’ and Ushahadi’s collaboration is an example of this. established groups on SMSall in Pakistan. This is important for Diaspora groups. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. availability, access and service improve so will innovation. Developing. spur this along.

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Mobile Phone Develop Pakistan 52

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

a collaborative effort, not just a single department or team’s responsibility. Collaborative efforts: Various organizations contributing their own resources, content, and data to create a common service that none of them would have been able to develop on their own is possible through digital platforms. Images of Empowerment.

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Platform Foundation Examples Digital 56

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Four years ago they went to the municipality, and asked them to build the clinic. They operate on a “Give us money and we’ll build six wells within two years” kind of attitude.

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Mali Project Change NGO 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

Parley sees the key to these solutions in creativity and collaboration. As an environmental organization, our mission is guided by a will to provide the vision and the framework to build a future we can actually live in. There is no magic fix for the complex threats we face, and no one person or group has all the answers.

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Maldives Environment Collaboration Life 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I worked for two and half years as Operations Manager for Low-Income Families Empowerment through Education (LIFETIME) a statewide grassroots membership organization that helps low-income families go to college and get out of poverty. It is exciting to see how improving the operations of Aspiration is helping us to achieve our mission.

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San Francisco Nonprofit Consultant Empowerment 50

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

The building of coalitions between Ministries of Agriculture, Labour Inspectors with employers’ organizations and workers’ organizations is essential for ongoing dialogue and collaboration in developing national policies.

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Global United States Policy International 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to harness the latest information and communications technology (ICT) advances to build their digital capacity. Unfortunately, that was not possible.

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Technology Empowerment Problem 109

Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

How to build significant partnerships in order to boost prominence and achieve a growing customer base? A growing collaboration between these two organizations is genuine, as both organizations seek to address the mounting challenge of platform exploitation of workers in their communities. Another Platform Economy Is Possible.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness. Will they laugh at you, start to cheer, or be intrigued? Collecting data on all user learning activity.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. Now that we're back, we're onto the next project which is the Uganda Seva Challenge where we will be building a birthing center. We talk about how to do consensus training in groups.

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

We're looking at building bridges between environmental movements and social justice movements. How do we build new visions and programs that serve everybody? So I really didn't know what I was doing, and sometimes still don't know what I'm doing, but I'm still trying to build bridges between the world of art and activism.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40