Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She explains why you need not only passion and purpose to win big, but also: a willingness to take decisive action grit sweat equity determination positive attitude Elting’s fascinating story began with her entirely self-funded business launch that started in a dorm room.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Building a successful online community starts with a solid plan. . Read on for what to include in your association’s online community strategy. Offering an online community to your members is a powerful way to provide member value. And an online community provides an ideal way to deliver these member benefits. .

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But as a community health center, you’re already running on lean margins, which makes it even harder to carve out time to implement new software. That’s why it is vital to make sure your team is prepared for the change and ready to identify the improvements that will increase your community health center’s efficiency and accountability.

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Blue Fox

JUNE 8, 2023

READ: Her Statement on the Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace ​Our team at Blue Fox is proud to announce that our CEO, Chantal Sheehan , is now one of the 150+ Florida business members of Equality Florida’s Equality Means Business Advisory Council. It was also crazy hard work. Change starts within.

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Charity Village

JUNE 30, 2021

The Sauder School of Business at UBC is once again excited to announce that applications for the Community Business Project program (CBP) are open for 2021. The CBP provides organizations with free business consulting from teams of highly motivated Master of Management (MM) students.

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Charity Village

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF) and Challenge Factory are proud to be teaming up with Scotiabank to facilitate the Veterans and Small Business Community Challenge (VSBCC). The post Nonprofits invited to participate in the Veterans and Small Business Community Challenge in Ontario appeared first on CharityVillage.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 5, 2021

Doing our business that way means we have to acquire 75% of participants each year. In effect, we are letting our prospective constituents use the community clubhouse for a party, but we’re not making sure they move into the community. We thought events were the point and that the event’s success would drive our success.

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Charity Village

MAY 25, 2023

The Catamount Fellowship, led by the Institute for Community Prosperity, announced a call for community partners. The fellowship is designed to be a springboard for students preparing to lead social change upon graduation through innovation in movements, organizations, businesses and/or government.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Your small business needs a way to get on the map. Luckily, there are a number of online platforms and resources at your disposal to create engaging marketing campaigns that will grow your customer pool, earn more revenue, and help your business reach new heights.

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The Sponsorship Collective

JUNE 21, 2021

Your company has always been entrenched in the community. How can you secure business sponsorship in your city or town? Here’s how to get sponsorship from local businesses: Know your goals Find businesses in your area […].

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With 77% of consumers aiming to support socially responsible companies and 93% of employees believing that companies must lead with purpose, it’s increasingly important for businesses to give back to their communities to set themselves apart from the competition.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Why You Should Run Your Nonprofit Like a Business. This value created could be a product or service for potential customers, as seen in the realm of business. But in order to achieve the greatest impact, nonprofits must invest in their companies – just like a business would. Invest in your team.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A wise boss once told me: “ A community is defined by caring for its members. One of the things you are responsible for as a development professional is building and nurturing community. Let’s focus, head-on, on the impact you have on the philanthropists who choose to commune with you. Otherwise, it’s just a zip code.”

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Analysts often preach that the goal of a business should be to set itself apart from the competition, perhaps through a better product or service or even simply by lower-cost, higher-quality tangibles. Consider this: what about looking at the standard for-profit business model from a non-profit standpoint?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Fundraising events are a perfect opportunity for your nonprofit to further build connections with your community. What is the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame? Each Junior Achievement Area hosts their Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame event in their own unique way.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2022

As nonprofits, our work is focused on community engagement. Our initiatives directly impact the people we serve by addressing community-centered needs. Community engagement brings group members together to make decisions about their shared future.

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Givinga

JUNE 22, 2023

Corporate citizenship refers to how a company positively contributes to society and its communities, along with what standards it uses to measure its social responsibility.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2021

YLP wanted to know which members of the community are benefitting from the service and how many families and children are being supported. We created a customer community on Experience Cloud for 50 pantry managers and senior volunteers to manage their pantry operations, including induction and training for pantry managers.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

When done well, fundraisers can become beloved annual events that your community looks forward to year after year. How do you turn a standard campaign into a fundraiser your community will love? Think about the people who make up your community of donors. Simply focus your attention on donor engagement.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Those talks with association CEOs and executives who head businesses that service the association industry formed the basis for two books. With a growing business, things change, but they don’t get easier. Joey Knecht, CEO and Managing Director at Proteus.co, recommends that leaders turn away from politics and toward business.

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Network for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2020

How to Use Local Business Partnerships to Grow Your Donor Base. There are several ways you can tap individual gifts, but one of the most effective ways is using local business partnerships. Local businesses can act as a funnel for new donors, and your organization has a lot to offer these businesses in return.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 5, 2023

In areas nationwide, there are barriers to economic development that need to be met with community engagement and solutions. Transportation, child care, business development, job creation, healthcare — they’re all connected and necessary to create a sustainable neighborhood economy and a thriving community.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Company leaders, on the other hand, know the value of retaining employees, boosting their company’s reputation, and impacting their community. Beyond impacting your community and employees, workplace giving can also boost your company’s brand! For example, did your community recently experience a natural disaster?

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Other associations post regularly on social media and cultivate vibrant online communities while yours just sends monthly email newsletters and occasionally meets over Zoom. In this guide, we’ll discuss three steps to creating an online community, starting with identifying the primary objectives and purpose of the community.

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CauseVox

MAY 4, 2021

It is no longer business as usual. The answer to future-proofing your nonprofit is in building a vibrant online community. The COVID-19 pandemic, a polarizing political climate, and overwhelming calls for racial justice have upended the entire nonprofit landscape. And in this live training, we will show you how to create one!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

The new book I co-authored with Allyson Kapin, Social Change Anytime Everywhere , looks at the way nonprofit organizations can use multichannel strategies for advocacy, fundraising, and community building. And to ensure that you do have a strong community of supporters, you need to make supporting your mission fun, valuable, and easy.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2021

Your business values the work of nonprofits and the ability to align with their mission. It’s one where benefiting organizations, sponsoring business, and—ideally greatest of all—the community being served all win. You know what works best for your business in terms of promotion. It never hurts to ask. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

I like being connected to the nptech community, and learning what’s happening. There are plenty of people who never entered these waters at all. I have been fairly conflicted about this for a while. There are things I really like about Twitter, Identi.ca, Buzz, etc. I really like reaching out and getting questions answered.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CSR software is a technology solution designed to help businesses manage, measure, and report on their CSR and sustainability initiatives. The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees. Who Uses CSR Software?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Participants learn how to create a social media strategy, craft a content marketing plan, and current best practices for using social media for community engagement and fundraising. Based on 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the certificate program provides six hours of training and costs $100 USD.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

A social entrepreneur, therefore, is a person who explores business opportunities that have a positive impact on their community, in society or the world.” Create a for-profit business: The U.S. Small Business Administration lists 10 steps to starting a small business.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are definitely times when community building and even campaigning or organizing feels just like that! But, operating as a community organizer or manager is such a filling and critical role for programs, platforms and even campaigns to be successful that the idea of herding cats turns into searching youtube for cutest kitten videos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Brynne Krispin is a social media strategist for nonprofits and small businesses. In this environment, building a community of loyal advocates for your cause is more important than ever before. While paid ads and steeply-priced lead lists may deliver short-term results, long-term donor relationships are built on trust and community.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Who they are: The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas unites their community to create opportunity and access for all North Texans to thrive, challenging the systemic barriers associated with race. What you can do: Find local businesses to partner with for a fundraising campaign.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2022

We invited WEF attendees to take a break from the hustle and bustle by going on a guided walking tour where they would hear from students and activists about their sustainability journeys at several stops connected to climate action, on both a global and a community level. About the Author.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2020

These words belong to Dan Pallotta, an American entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian activist, who, in his Ted Talk, reiterates that a nonprofit should be run like a business. According to Pallotta, philanthropy is a market and it is the business of ‘encouraging love’ and ‘increasing awareness.’ First, Cover the Basics.

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Forj

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now, the fastest-growing associations are building their strategies around community-led growth. Much like its predecessors, community-led growth acts as a multiplier on top of product-led growth. Over the past few decades, we’ve seen trends evolve from marketing-led growth to sales-led growth to product-led growth.

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