Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can ask yourself at a minimum these questions as you formulate your CPS: What do we deeply care about as an organization, both internally and externally? Matt Mayberry Earlier this year, Mayberry shared these additional insights: Question: A recent Glassdoor survey found +50% of employees said work culture is more important than pay.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A Major gifts officer cultivates high-level donors, connecting with them individually to build relationships that significantly impact your nonprofit. The MGO is a big deal because it requires a unique skill set: A love for people A genuine dedication to your cause A good storyteller (and ‘question asker’!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dilenschneider Today, Dilenschneider shares these insights with us: Question: What inspired you to write The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence ? My goal was to provide a comprehensive playbook, drawing from real-world examples, to empower professionals at any career stage to build influence, lead effectively and use power responsibly.

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M+R

JANUARY 24, 2022

Does our creative reflect the demographics of the audiences we want to reach? The question here is: what is already top of mind for our audience? Sometimes, the answers to these questions will be unclear based on the information we have. Sometimes, the answers to these questions will be unclear based on the information we have.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change. It supports diversity in demographics and thought and is essential for building trust, transparency, and honest communication. Provide recognition and compensation that reflect its importance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

You can ask yourself at a minimum these questions as you formulate your CPS: What do we deeply care about as an organization, both internally and externally? Matt Mayberry Today, Mayberry shares these additional insights with us: Question: A recent Glassdoor survey found +50% of employees said work culture is more important than pay.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. But are you asking the right questions? Why Change Up Your Questions? Changing up your questions is not just about making cosmetic tweaks or updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Reflect Positive Outcomes Yes, it can be hard to put behavior in the spotlight. An annual survey is a good start.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

You can ask yourself at a minimum these questions as you formulate your CPS: What do we deeply care about as an organization, both internally and externally? Question: What is the most common pain point of a company trying to change culture? Question: Describe your notion of a Cultural Purpose Statement.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

To prepare for an uncertain future, begin building competence in areas where people remain the experts. Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JULY 25, 2020

You can expect content that gives you the insider perspective on how I build strategy as a consultant and a practitioner that you can then apply to the specific nature of your work. Today I’m going to share 4 questions that I always use when I’m trying to answer the question, “What next?” What should we do more of?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. Above is a word cloud of the transcribed burning questions. Overnight Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. In other words, how to scale reflective practice in age of connectedness?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

Building a predictable revenue stream helps to reduce this imbalance and provide much needed support during your organization’s fallow periods. This is also reflected in their participation in registration with fundraising campaigns, as well as peer-to-peer. 4) Better Long-Term Planning. 6) Strengthened Donor Loyalty and Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. No question about it, it also adds complexity and cost – in dollars and time. – Guest post by Stefan Lanfer.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Building a Network. Jumo vs Change.org – is that the question? Avi Kaplan shared some feedback on my facebook wall this morning, as well: I really agree with Avi – there doesn’t seem to be a way to comment on someone’s post to reply, or to reply to the news items. Isn’t that the point?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. for my journal or my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” As the part of my monthly review, I reflect on my themes and habits to improve.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

Build Branded AI Image Prompts Understand your brand identity: Before creating AI-generated images, it’s essential to have a clear understanding of your organization’s brand identity, including its mission, values, and visual elements. PromptoMania : A prompt builder that connects to CF Spark.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Build a mentorship program with ChatGPT as a matching assistant. The decision to outsource or build your bot narrows the options. Then, define the primary user questions and corresponding answers.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Many in the philanthropic community desire that nonprofits reflect the communities they serve—including everyone from volunteers and donors to staff, executives, and the board. You want to ensure all voices from the communities you serve are reflected throughout your organization, especially on your board. What policies are in place?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The goal of this book is to provide an intensely practical guide to making that transition by sharing insights, stories, and approaches from hundreds of leaders to build the skills you will need to make the leap to leader,” explains Bryant. How to build your self-awareness muscle. Ways to navigate office politics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This also includes seeking feedback from others about how you act and trying to be more reflective. This is about asking questions, being deeply curious and seeing changes as an opportunity to grow, learn and reassess the way you see and talk about the world. How do you build relationships? Intellectual health : how you think.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Personal growth—Acknowledging what brings out the best in you as well as what triggers less desirable behavior builds confidence and makes for more positive interactions. Ask open-ended questions that invite feedback and follow-up. Make time for reflection. However, awareness of the distractions can minimize their impact.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. Because the extent of the governor’s legal authority was questionable, the messages were mixed and confusing. There was no end date for this edict.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Two weeks ago I shared a couple reflections that I had on a recent #4change chat about community building – the major output from that chat and the follow up blog post was the call I heard for a regular opportunity to talk about community building. What: Community Building Across Platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. If you have more than 10 people in a meeting, having everyone introduce themselves verbally and answer an icebreaker question can take up a lot of time and can be tedious.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Guidelines for building AI tools for good Building ethical AI requires an interrogation of the data you plan to use for training and evaluation. Answering these questions can guide efforts to correct and adjust the data. Candid produces model cards for all AI tools we build and deploy in our systems.

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Media Cause

JUNE 30, 2022

Here are a few questions to think about when choosing your list: 1. I find it easiest to build chunks of ad names based on target audience groupings. if you duplicate a set of creatives from one targeting segment to another, you’ll need to rename the ads to reflect the accurate targeting segment). Ad Type (i.e. Message (i.e.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 19, 2011

So your non-profit organization needs to get a website, finally – or to revamp the existing website, perhaps to make it work better for your members and donors, perhaps to reflect a change in direction or brand. Andy Giesler, freelance IT consultant to nonprofit organizations, has just.( read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

—– I recently posted about Jumo with reflections, notes from my experience using the new platform, and questions – this post has also generated a great deal of valuable conversation in the comments (over 70 thoughtful comments so far). On & Offline Engagement. Online is great for organizing.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Each year, the Blackbaud Institute invites leading experts in the world of social good to reflect on current trends, giving insights to stay ahead of the curve. ask questions like “How does this gathering further educate about our mission?” Look Forward, Not Back – “What would you do differently if you were building from scratch?”

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

One question you can ask is: “ What impact do you want your organization to make ?” Consider additional questions such as “What programs and services are most effective?” Answering such questions will help leverage your staff, time, and resources. Bad data can also come from bad questions.

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