Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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. An insight is a learning that leads to new value.

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Candid

MAY 2, 2022

So, when Candid first approached the Center about its initiative to encourage more organizations to earn a Gold Seal, in turn providing richer information on the sector, the Center's team was intrigued. . For more information on how you can be part of this work, please reach out to Candid’s partnerships team. .

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Our virtual Team met up IRL in New Orleans to strategize about how we can continue to best serve our clients. If you've ever talked to our CEO, Chantal Sheehan , or any one of our our foxtastic team members, then you already understand OUR WHY; there's no doubt we make you feel like YOU MATTER! Powerful, right?! And so true.

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sgEngage

JULY 17, 2023

You also worry about the well-being of your team and grantees but aren’t sure where to start with making a permanent shift from a burnout culture to a culture of well-being. If you’re consistently pouring from a full or overflowing cup, you set yourself, your team, and grantees up for sustained long-term success.

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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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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. An insight is a learning that leads to new value.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

In the following blog post, we will delve into practical strategies to help your nonprofit maximize its efforts during the crucial calendar year-end period. It goes without saying, but calendar year-end is a critical time for many nonprofit organizations. percent after inflation adjustments) for calendar year-end giving in 2022.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Not automating the matching gift process for your team. One popular deadline structure falls at the end of the calendar year. Not Automating the Matching Gift Process for Your Team The above solutions can fuel nonprofit fundraising. Not following up on previous match-eligible donations. Misstep #1. Misstep #5.

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Achieve

APRIL 2, 2020

With the end of the calendar year comes a new tax season. Create an organizational structure for important 501(c)(3) forms. . For organizations working on the calendar fiscal year, this means your 990 is due on May 15th. . CREATE AN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR YOUR 501(C)(3) FORMS. . An outsourced team can help you: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Having too many platforms and tools for collaboration can confuse and annoy your team and partners. More and more we are beginning to recognize the risk of communications overload, and organizations are trying to simplify the workflows for teams. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When we gauge an individual’s or team’s performance based on the volume of their output rather than the quality of their outcomes, we’re commodifying something that was never meant to be solid and graspable: creative thinking. Celebrate progress along the way to your goals. Freedom is where creativity thrives.

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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. Take a moment to recognize and appreciate the efforts of your team, volunteers, and donors. CauseVox simplifies the process by providing customizable campaign pages for individual and team fundraisers.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

If your fundraising team is stressed and stretched too thin, you’re not alone. Think of automation as a tool to help your team focus on the uniquely human skills of creativity, relationship building, and critical thinking that only they can bring to their fundraising roles. Burnout is widespread.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Take a look at each of your staff member’s compensation and overall staffing structure. Every member of our team at Blue Fox has significant nonprofit experience. Can you shift program calendars for more consistent week to week staffing needs? It’s time to evaluate your people resources. So, we get it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

This could be applied at networking events, speaking events, meetings, new team introductions, and more. Are they responding to proactive employees rather than strategically setting up meetings and touch points with all team members? Look at your “Outlook equity” or “calendar equity” and see how you can adjust how you spend your time.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s a quantifiable, specific, measurable goal your organization’s team agrees is important and doable if everyone works together. Work with your team to determine your Impact Goal. Then post it for everyone to see – your team, Board, volunteers, and supporters. Another way to structure a plan is in a calendar format.

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Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

When the calendar turned to 2021, we all knew COVID-19 was not going to disappear. 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. It’s not easy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Inspired by a session on busting organizational silos through digital storytelling delivered by the See3 team at the most recent Nonprofit Technology Conference, the National Institute for Reproductive Health is using its web content to move out the silos and bring in the stories. Your organization may add it into your content calendar.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These numbers are made possible largely by major gifts, which typically make up the majority of what is fundraised by an organization each calendar year. It’s important to ensure that the same team handles all major gifts, as these donors account for a significant proportion of donations made to your organization.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

One that I like was created by Kristina Halvorson and her team at Brain Traffic , called the Content Strategy Quad: A simple way to look at this is by dividing the top and bottom quadrants. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team.

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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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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

An example of how a Forum One nonprofit client is organizing its teams to effectively manage digital operations across the organization. Individuals and teams will interact in new ways and ownership can become sticking points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Encourage more dialogue and discussion at staff meetings, team retreats. Do fun icebreakers at meetings and other team building activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation. I think that is an important insight for small organizations who don’t have a team of people doing the social media and trying to do it with limited hours in the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It integrates with your social media channels and allows you pre-schedule your message, it integrates with your analytics tools so you can view your metrics, and it even connects with Google Calendar and Evernote and others.

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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. On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

An example of how a Forum One nonprofit client is organizing its teams to effectively manage digital operations across the organization. During your redesign, workflows and responsibilities are likely to shift, which can potentially cause friction between teams or individual team members.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your nonprofit marketing plan provides focus, structure, and measurable objectives to help you see what’s working and what needs to be changed. Developing a content calendar Consistency in marketing delivery is crucial for enhancing recognition of your nonprofit and boosting engagement with your target audience.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2020

That means figuring out the structure of your communications team and hiring strategically. Ideally, we all have the budget to hire a full team of highly-specialized people to produce and maintain our organization’s content. Maybe you have a small team, but there’s still too much to do. Your Content Squad.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Meanwhile, LinkedIn is a social media platform geared toward professionals meaning that your posts on LinkedIn should be more formal and structured than on other platforms for more engagement. Develop a social media calendar. Your posts don’t have to be perfect, cookie-cutter social media posts all the time.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2018

Pairing your hospital marketing and fundraising teams is one of the best ways to ensure that you work smarter. By sitting down quarterly to review communication calendars, marketers and fundraisers can strengthen calls to action with educational, promotional, and fundraising components that reach all of their target audiences.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Here are five tips to build more engaged remote teams. Now that virtual meetings dominate calendars, the last thing most employees want to do is spend unstructured time staring at Zoom boxes. This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

This guide is here to help you create a strong foundation for your first web build project, setting you up for success a few years down the line when you’re reading to work with a consultant like Team DNL. How to Build a Website: 5 Steps Your Team Can Take. How to Build a Website: 5 Steps Your Team Can Take. Let’s get started.

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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. What are you waiting for?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

Schedule time on your calendar monthly for training so it doesn’t drop to the bottom of the priority list again! When you have a portfolio management meeting on the calendar, it will drive ongoing attention and activity. Especially if research is newer for your team, prioritize time on people your organization doesn’t know well.

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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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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

They can also provide a platform for ETL processes: in other words, Extracting data from the systems where it is collected, Transforming, cleaning, or otherwise manipulating it into a more usable structure, and then Loading it directly to business intelligence tools or data warehouses including BigQuery. 2021-01-31), relative dates (e.g.,

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