Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Based on the size and structure of your organization, you will be required to files one of the following 990 returns: Reinforcing Your Mission with Financial Transparency: Annual 990 returns don’t have to be a stressful annual chore. For organizations operating on a calendar year, this deadline will be May 15th.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Collaborations Partnering with other businesses or nonprofits can significantly expand your reach and engagement. Your nonprofit marketing plan provides focus, structure, and measurable objectives to help you see what’s working and what needs to be changed.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. Being bogged down with busy work creates an obstacle to collaboration, making it harder to brainstorm the next big idea for a fundraising event, a campaign, or a partnership. Many nonprofits are way ahead of the game.

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Knowledge Worker Fundraising Gift Gartner 63

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! The 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar is ready for upload right into your Google or Outlook Calendar with a single click. Drop us a line!

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Classy

MAY 12, 2021

That structure makes it simpler to plan content for weeks or months at a time. We’re covering the latest in marketing and fundraising at the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions in June. Build a flexible weekly planning process that helps you stay on top of social media but also creative about last-minute ideas or pivots.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Explore new fundraising opportunities: Open new doors by identifying untapped revenue streams, innovative approaches , or collaborative partnerships that can diversify your fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Responsive tech support.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Creating a content calendar Plan your content in advance to ensure you’re posting in the most effective manner possible.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team. One way to structure a plan is in buckets: individual donors, major donors, monthly donors, signature event, business partners, faith community, family foundations, nonprofit grantors, and other. But you know what? It doesn’t matter!

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar is ready for upload right into your Google or Outlook Calendar with a single click. Opportunity Collaboration.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. Google Workspace Platform overview: Google Workspace for Nonprofits is a flexible productivity and communication platform with multiple apps to streamline team collaboration. transaction fee per donation.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As this name suggests, an ESOP is a legal structure that allows employees to have a financial stake in the company they work for, receiving benefits of its success on an ongoing basis. These contributions begin when an employee has worked for Forum One full-time for 1,000 hours in the same calendar year. What is an ESOP?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. The work related tasks also correspond with color codes on my google calendar and my hard drive/google drive files. What about you?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

You can further incentivize these kinds of sales by creating a structured referral program that rewards those who bring in additional attendees. Foster Local Partnerships Collaborating with local businesses and organizations—including other local nonprofits—is a smart tactic to increase fundraiser ticket sales.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. When outlining each fundraiser, use a fundraising calendar to maintain a balance—ensuring enough activities to meet budgetary needs without overstretching your resources.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

But look at your internal structure and ask yourself: how are my employees incentivized? Does our culture and reward structure support collaborating to engage constituents? Or, are they collaborating toward an organization-wide goal and everyone wins if the goals are met? Do they each have a number to meet?

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 9, 2024

Let’s take a look at 15 Fundraising revenue streams your nonprofit can utilize when planning your annual fundraising calendar. Corporate Partnerships Amplifying Impact Through Collaboration Forming partnerships with businesses is a strategic move that benefits both parties.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We recommend creating a fundraising calendar to keep you on track and organized in your efforts. Download our Fundraising Plan and Calendar Template: Fundraising Strategies for Nonprofits 1. You can structure donation tiers as impact-based or as recognition/reward based perks for your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. Another option might be to use a shared google calendar.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful. They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. We’ll craft talking points and you know, do you have an event calendar or prospect list?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. But you can structure your perks so that everyone gets the same perks, but donors get them sooner or delivered personally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. In thinking about tagging, flickr, and rss tools, what are some ways that you can collaborate with others to create content or have your students create content? In most cases simple syntax structure is used. Hiring people.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ve collaborated on some content. How do you structure your database? And then, as Steven suggested, we have collaborated on, a while back now, a manual. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

As you look at your 2017 calendar, begin by designating the most important dates for your organization. Once you have decided upon your key messages, you’ll be able to structure your story in a way that ensures that this key message is central to the point of your story. Who are the collaborators in executing the plan?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Do you have to change your existing plan because I know a lot of people are going through a strategic planning process right now, especially those who have a fiscal year that just started or perhaps you’re looking at the end of the calendar year and aligning those priorities with organization and client needs? So that’s great.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Collaborate With Social Media Influencers No, we don’t mean you should shell out thousands of dollars to get a famous YouTuber to talk about your organization on their channel. Instead of participating in a structured event, supporters raise money on your behalf on their own time. Or a kickball tournament. Or an art festival.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Set goals like these, then structure your campaigns around them. Follow the appropriate account structure. Here’s a quick overview of the tools available through Google for Nonprofits : Google Workspace: Also known as G Suite, Google Workspace is a collection of online collaboration tools.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

However, there are some alternative calendar tools. You can also block out appointments in Google Calendar itself. RealtimeBoard is a super useful real-time collaborative whiteboard to host your whole project — including text, images, and comments. We all miss Sunrise! FindTime is part of Office 365 and does this too.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In this article, we will explore how to manage these challenges from a technology standpoint, including publishing metrics, establishing structure, removing barriers and offering training. This is not a complete list; you will need to adapt to your culture and organizational structure. Establish structure and accountability.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. First, I mentioned you should use a database and a structured process to search for funders. . So maybe your board members randomly tell you about grant opportunities.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. And with that in mind, you can start to turn your plan into a calendar with clear accountabilities and clear actions. Well, in the book, I define six elements that power successful communications outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

For example, our 1stfans Twitter Art Feed is currently featuring Mary Temple, who is making this really great calendar of portraits of people in the news. In that sense, the project evolved from simply a conceptual one at the outset into one that was performative and collaborative--an Internet theatre of sorts.

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