Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The book is structured into 15 insightful chapters, each focusing on a unique aspect of power and 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. Share the lessons with your team.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

You can build more collaborative teams. There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Involve the marketing team in strategic decision-making. You can’t know, what you don’t know.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. We saw their loyalty as beyond commercial transactions.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Whether you’re running a marathon to raise money for mental health or you are a nonprofit considering hosting a peer-to-peer birthday fundraiser , building an effective personal fundraising page is the first step towards creating positive change in the world. Finally, there is plenty of opportunity for fun when fundraising together!

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. We saw their loyalty as beyond commercial transactions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing. Step 2: Organize a Planning Team and Create a Project Charter.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

I enjoy learning how organizations and teams get their work done, and we then kick around some ideas that can make things better. Their processes are streamlined, and the team has clear roles and responsibilities. But Alan’s team was always late with the financial information that Barbara needed. Why is this so hard?”

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you’re representing a school, church, memorial, museum, hospital, sports team, or park, a brick fundraiser offers a unique and enduring way to engage supporters while leaving a lasting mark. Building a Lasting Legacy: Brick Installation Ceremonies The installation of the bricks can be an emotional and memorable event.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More than a few of those executives were managing virtual teams. One bit of wisdom is that like most skills, managing a remote team is both easier and more complicated than we could have imagined. Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently.

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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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VisionLink

JULY 26, 2022

In honor of National Disability Independence Day, Visionlink commemorates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and celebrates the structural changes across the US since July 1990 and the assistive digital technologies that we've embraced. Your Visionlink Team Together we celebrate truly inclusive solutions.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But, Don Draper and the team at Mad Men probably would not approve. Build a mentorship program with ChatGPT as a matching assistant. How hard is it to add a bot or two to your team? Are there stages in the member journey where your team is understaffed and customer care is suffering? Humans still do better creative.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

Training your team and developing their communication skills will be essential. Charitable remainder trusts work similarly to charitable annuities but are structured through trusts that donors establish specifically for giving to one or more charities. When the agreement’s terms are up, your nonprofit receives the leftover funds.

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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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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to build, train, steward, and replace your committee when it’s time. The structure the committee provides also makes succession planning easier in the long run. The structure the committee provides also makes succession planning easier in the long run. Determine the positions you need.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Publishing that information helped to build confidence in the industry. “We That trust building between our members and government officials continues today.” Not only do they worry about their communities and their business interests, but they each have a team who depends on those jobs to support their families.

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Forj

APRIL 17, 2024

Association leaders charged with building and managing online communities are faced with a lot of difficult decisions, from determining the right structure to creating a solid content strategy. It's about translating your metrics into stories that resonate with key stakeholders, from the leadership team to the board of directors.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

Associations Thrive came out of a marketing planning meeting I held with my team at the beginning of Summer 2022. Russ Webb of the Bay Area Apartment Association says he doesn’t tell his members how to run apartment buildings, and they don’t tell him how to run the BAAA, but his Board does provide mission and guidance. Then, they act.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At this year’s virtual bbcon, Ashley Thompson (Managing Director, Blackbaud Institute) and Lawrence Henze (Analytics Architect, Senior Principal, at Blackbaud) expanded on the data and insights from this report to offer a roadmap to build a strategy for resiliency.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Leadership styles conducive to authentic engagement, providing clear guidance and building integrated processes and structures that foster collaboration and team cohesion is essential. Leader’s intent.

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Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

Purpose-built data management, reporting, and participant engagement tools help your team and providers positively impact the lives within your community. Learn more Building a data-informed culture Improve outcomes Put data at the forefront of your organization’s processes. CST, and includes 60 support cases per year at no cost.

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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. When I consider where we must go, I think you have to build value for society, and that may or may not be through the professionals you represent.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 27, 2024

Take every opportunity to reaffirm to your fundraising teams the importance of a diverse donor base which includes not only people of varying backgrounds, but women donors. Acknowledging that our society is built upon patriarchy, where does that leave the perspectives of traditional gender roles in your organization and on your team?

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Your team may need to be educated about the urgency for and the benefits of embarking on a diversity plan. But endorsement from their peers goes a long way toward building buy-in. Build Excitement Goals create excitement. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

1 While all of these are useful tools for program development and planning, there is another strategy that provides consistent access to community input while also routinely building a supportive foundation from diverse, innovative ideas: the creation of strong advisory committees. Create structure. What are advisory committees?

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

When you started researching to build your nonprofit’s first website, what did you encounter? At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofit organizations to custom-build a site that meets their unique needs. These services are often out of range for new nonprofits building a site for the first time. Let’s get started.

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Media Cause

MARCH 20, 2024

4 Donor Management and Relationship Building CRM (Customer or Constituent Relationship Management) systems are crucial for managing donor information, tracking interactions, and building lasting relationships with supporters. What Challenges Do Nonprofits Face When Building a MarTech Stack?

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Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

I came up with a process for matching volunteers with capacity-building roles that was very successful. I met with the development teams to learn more about their committees and see where I could support them with additional volunteers. Both Walk MS and Bike MS teams determined that they would benefit from volunteer committee members.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

Showcase attitudes, actions, and qualities you want your team to mirror. By brainstorming and working together, your team is more likely to spot opportunities for innovation. Encourage your team to spend time getting creative, learning, or simply brainstorming. You can do so with open and transparent communication.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

At a minimum, a team with a poor leader is unproductive like this one: With the right leadership, a nonprofit can grow quickly, fulfilling its mission and meeting a community need or eliminating a problem. They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams. The organization can stagnate or experience chaos.

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Forj

APRIL 13, 2021

However, if it’s not structured properly, it can also lead to a hefty administrative burden for your team and a frustrating experience for learners. Prioritize social learning and community-building. Then, we cover how the Web Courseworks team and our software solutions can help.

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Media Cause

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s Friday afternoon, and you’re ready to check on the performance of the ad campaign you inherited from another team. This saves you and your team time and confusion. I find it easiest to build chunks of ad names based on target audience groupings. The Campaign + Ad Group structure can differ per platform.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

build effective presentation skills. Public speaking and presentation skills can help you craft better written and verbal communications, whether you’re engaging with your team internally or connecting with an external audience. . Internally, you likely engage with the following team members regularly: . team meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 26, 2014

Here are some great tips and guiding principles for how a manager and leader can build a culture to foster creativity. Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.

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Forum One

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once the website is built—the scaffolding, structure, and design—your content is what brings it to life. It often entails rethinking how you want to communicate about your organization in the new structure and style you’re pursuing with your redesign project. How many people on the content team need to look at each piece of content?

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Care2

OCTOBER 26, 2011

We have been planning and building websites for social change institutions for nearly two decades, and over that time have worked with some of the most well-known social brands in the world, as well as hundreds of lesser-known groups. This summer we set out to learn more about the state of digital teams in the nonprofit sector.

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