Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Given the research-validated outcomes and demonstrated financial impact belonging offers, organizations should make cultivating belonging a personal leadership imperative across the world,” says Brad Deutser , author of the new book, Belonging Rules: Five Crucial Actions That Build Unity and Foster Performance. Listen without labels.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Growing Pains Founded in 1926, AbilityFirst (formerly known as the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California or CCS) was created to help children with polio and other physical disabilities, and I was hired in 1998 to turn around this disability service organization. A third lesson was that the board needed training.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

They’ve created their own cloud computing platform, revolutionized logistics with prime delivery, and invested in AI and robotics. Lego is another company that has consistently expanded its business model. They collaborated with popular franchises, developed video games and apps, and created products for adults.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Are you taking advantage of this important information, or are you still creating events, products, and activities based on what’s always been done? This blog provides an overview of how to establish your scoring model, establish a team of data champions, and adopt a regular reporting routine so that your association is set up for success.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Are you creating new eLearning courses to provide value to members and bring in revenue for your association’s learning business? We’ve found that there are many considerations that go into pricing eLearning courses, from the cost of creating a course to the value it provides. 5 eLearning Pricing Models for Your Courses.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

At the time, Salesforce offered a way for us to create internal efficiencies, integrate our internal systems on the cloud, and create a more efficient tool for our lawyers. Through Salesforce, we began to build our vision of one legal aid network to help all of Illinois.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

Leaders must be prepared to confront fast-moving trends like these: As of 2021, one-quarter of the top 100 consumer goods companies were using 3D printing to create custom products on demand. Create Space for Evolution Don’t fixate on giving every goal a finite timeline. The power of many can create the buy-in needed for changes.”

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 29, 2024

Spotlight what matters most – first, we identify what factors have the strongest correlation to membership renewal (with a robust decision tree model but we won’t hurt your head explaining that). Create prediction buckets – next, we bucket members into different prediction categories that tell you how likely they are to renew.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Look to create new and innovative products and services for an underserved population in your membership. Step 3: Create – Once IAEE determined the need, they were able to develop content for those members, starting with an educational series of six webinars.

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DipJar

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Additionally, in an effort to make DipJar more valuable, accessible, and affordable, we created three new pricing plans that include lower transactions costs, decreased subscription fees, and customizable plans for Enterprise customers. Create unlimited campaigns from your Dashboard. SparkVirtual: The Online Giving Solution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

By Lyn Chamberlin , President at Lyn Chamberlin Leadership – an award-winning nonprofit brand strategist who works with organizations and successful women to create transformative brand narratives. 7) Building Trust and Transparency: Transparent storytelling lets you showcase your impact, successes, challenges, and commitment to your mission.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

A lack of standardized demographic data not only hinders our collective work to create a more equitable sector; it also requires nonprofits to take time away from their mission-driven work to respond to disparate requests by funders for this information. However, this power extends far beyond the walls of corporations.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a non-profit website might be the most intimidating aspect of launching an organization. Building a donor-friendly website is a complex job – part marketing and part technical. Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

In many cases, the training data is curated from the internet, with all the prejudices and biases of the humans creating it. Similarly, we saw evidence that the model was associating “People of Latin American descent” with “Incarcerated people.” Large language models such as ChatGPT can make up facts and present them as true.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Community building and engagement are new priorities. Build Value “In an increasingly competitive environment, the priorities may need to be realigned,” Garth noted. In my way of thinking, this is the wrong business model. But I’ll go back to our value statement—we don’t create things for our members.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Creating that buy-in will depend on the board’s confidence in the CEO’s judgment and ability. In relationship building, trust is the place to start. A participant at.orgCommunity’s Leadership ColLAB event* made this comment about the importance of building confidence with your constituents.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. There are many proven practices and strategies for engaging with communities and building up participation, whether around an event, a campaign, or a cause. Here are the slides! Transparency.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A new threat is building in the wake of every previous challenge. Build Competencies Connecting with diverse groups and people creates nuanced vision. CEOs must be role models for their teams. That hammered home the connection between relationship building and trust.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Intrigued because as president and CEO of Women’s Funding Network (WFN), the largest global alliance of gender equity funders, I am well aware of persistent gender data gaps that hinder efforts to identify disparities, change systems, and build power. It also provides a quantitative baseline to evaluate and build upon equity strategies.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

This is a great question to play with for creating a unique prompt for creating draft personas for your nonprofit. Not everyone can afford a top-shelf branding agency when they start out, this tool might help give a starting point for creating a persona. How are donor personas usually created?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Workplaces are tapping into the power of ritual to create a sense of community, build relationships in the workplace and reduce stress. Others have created a “whiteboard of love” with written praise or staff accomplishments, provided reserved parking space, or take time to praise staff at monthly meetings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

” Its response neatly explained the nitty-gritty: “ ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. Google’s Bard is a generative language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code. Prompt: “Please create a content calendar for Instagram for Purrfect Pets cat rescue.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Association CIOs: Ask yourself these six important questions before building your own AMS. With an in-house developer, your association might be tempted to build a custom Association Management System (AMS). But when it’s time for a new AMS system , experience shows it’s usually better, cheaper, and faster to buy than to build.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2020

By Dana Bakich , founder and CEO of Positive Equation – a digital consultancy focused on equipping nonprofits with the tools and resources to build impactful digital strategies. For the example below, we’ll be building out a sample Facebook Live co-branded series. 82% prefer live video over traditional social posts. .

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

They enthusiastically sign up for several upcoming events and offer their professional assistance in creating a marketing plan. So, how do you create that? It’s up to you to capture that passion and create a successful volunteer program so rewarding that volunteers can’t imagine not following through and coming back.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. If you always hire agencies to create your Facebook Ad campaigns, it adds greatly to the cost of each campaign. It’s very easy to create an ad, then duplicate it and change the image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans. Build Real Connections At Work Now here’s a fact: Real connections and friendships at work matter because they can help us get stuff done! Leaders need to set an example and hold themselves accountable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. Which ‘models’ work under which conditions, in which industries or places?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. That’s when the movement building can begin. Focusing on those areas where your goals overlap enables you to create a common ground, share a purpose; and that’s where you can build a movement. How does movement building really look?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Whether you’re crafting an emergency plan to react to unexpected external circumstances or creating your strategy for the next two to five years, this guide will help your nonprofit get the most out of its strategic plan. This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley. And how might we help bring these two groups together to create healthier nonprofits, healthier networks, and ultimately, healthier communities? And how might we help bring these two groups together to create healthier nonprofits, healthier networks, and ultimately, healthier communities?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. have successfully adopted social enterprise strategies to diversify their revenue portfolios and create sustainable revenue streams, such as the YMCA and Goodwill Industries. Why pursue a social enterprise model?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to build, train, steward, and replace your committee when it’s time. Creating a fundraising event committee formalizes the work your staff and key volunteers will do to plan and implement your event. How to build your fundraising event committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. Who is defining results anyway?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Like the stickers are for food delivery, the trust as a service model is a great opportunity for most businesses today. The model is defined by two mains steps. Then, the next step is figuring out what satisfies that need and creating a product, program, or certification that fulfills it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Ultimately, this helps major gift teams focus on what matters most—building relationships with donors and helping their organization make an impact. Access comprehensive insights : AI models can analyze vast amounts of data far faster than any human. AI shines here with its wealth screening and predictive modeling capabilities.

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