Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It causes buyers to put down their defenses. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience. It helps them relax.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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’!) They like people, are dedicated and enthusiastic about your cause, are great storytellers and listeners , and have a natural gift for raising money (of course!).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

It causes buyers to put down their defenses. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience. It helps them relax.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Almost everyone has an experience that motivated them to get involved in a given cause. As you think about how to structure your story, consider these questions: What challenge did you face? How did the outcome feel, and what did it teach you? Why are you doing what you do? What motivated you to do this work?

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause. What were structures in places at the time? . I was there for the same reason. Join OUR system.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your Board members should not be family members, but people who are interested in your cause and have an applicable skill, such as accounting, marketing, social work, or social media, that they are willing to bring to the table. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

As the primary goal of nonprofit organizations is to advance, advocate or pursue a cause, it is understandable that many professionals want to focus their long-term career goals on nonprofit management. Purposeful work: Being able to contribute to a cause you believe in is a huge benefit of this type of work. There are more than 1.3

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

It causes buyers to put down their defenses. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience. It helps them relax.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “nonprofit leaders must focus more attention on innovation, measuring the impact of their efforts, and creating funding structures that encourage risk taking, according to a report from Independent Sector." It is a principled approach to new product development.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

However, my inability to participate aside, Pokémon Go is a very good application of Augmented Reality, and with the user base growing at such an alarming rate, it has caused many organizations to take pause and evaluate what seems to be endless opportunities in not only the game and its facets but in the delivery method itself.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

One of the leading causes of lukewarm, deflated, meandering copy is a lack of clear purpose. You are a person whose job is to carry passion and in-depth knowledge about your particular cause or organization. Repetitive structure. Q: Do I know what my goals and guidelines are? Remember: you are not normal. Fair enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The structure of awareness and attention determines the pathway along which a situation unfolds. One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.” The formula for a successful change process is not “form follows function,” but “form follows consciousness.” But it’s not easy to create effective videos.

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Socialbrite

JANUARY 15, 2021

Knowledge management is the process of creating, structuring, using, sharing and retaining knowledge within an organization. This is the type of knowledge that is codified and easy to teach. So it’s critical to establish processes that determine how knowledge is disseminated throughout every effective organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It causes buyers to put down their defenses. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I just haven’t included those as examples and haven’t structured the book around that audience. It helps them relax.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Now to tie things back to e-learning: we know that the purpose of an e-learning course is to teach staff members how to do their jobs better. I would love to make a charitable financial contribution toward your cause.” Courses need to be actionable and give learners the tools to be more effective in their jobs. It’s okay to show that.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

Examples could include: Teach how to make a new recipe from items found at your food bank. Teach kids how to make a craft using common materials they likely have at home. The plan should be loose enough to account for changes, but your livestream sessions should be structured and scheduled in advance. Dog Training/Grooming 101.

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Care2

OCTOBER 25, 2012

While arming your supporters with important facts is certainly useful, you also must share powerful stories that inspire them to get even more involved in your movement and cause. The Structure of a Story. What do you stand for that you can teach your audience and that will resonate with them. Define the moral of a story.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. Recruit potential members Look for people who are passionate about the cause, have experience relevant to the mission, and have served in a fundraising or volunteer role at a nonprofit in the past.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Adapting to our circumstances has taught us to utilize the tools we have and find unique ways to do what we have always done by innovating how programs are structured. These may become cause areas during virtual times and where you should consider looking for virtual events first.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Are you telling a personal story, creating a fundraising pitch, inspiring others to care about a cause , or teaching potential customers about your business? We suggest storyboarding out your video story within the app by selecting one of the pre-loaded story structures. There are no complicated timelines here!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

While social benefit organizations generally think of using gaming for education, games can be used to structure participation around actions like getting out the vote. Gaming elements can identify cause and effect and, ultimately, motivate behaviors to create impact. And not all games need to exist solely in the digital realm.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Give structure to your story. Bonus tip) Teach a lesson. Would-be storytellers who don’t know where to begin can start by simply telling stories about their organization and its cause. Help your subjects be their best natural selves by filming them in their natural environments and treating interviews like conversations.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This was initially a struggle, as the lack of face-to-face interaction makes it much harder to teach concepts and learn about a new role. Along with a total rewards approach to compensation, you also should consider other ways to recognize employee work, like incentive plans , an increasingly popular type of employee compensation structure.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Cause Camp 2018. Cause Camp 2018. Cause Camp isn’t just another nonprofit conference to get you out of the office for a couple days. The Cause Camp equation is simple and foolproof. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Mar 26 - 27. Nonprofit Hub / Lincoln, NE / $299.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A dimensional chart of accounts structure creates a separate field in your database for each bit of expense information rather than cramming all the information into one account code field. But if that same organization had a $10 million surplus the previous year, a surplus of only $1 million may be cause for concern.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Gamification is a real thing now, you can play games that teach you everything you need to know, effectively measure said games and embed them directly within your learning platform. What can we do to make our training and development offerings exciting? Topic 3: Implementation – An off the cuff walkthrough.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Just 'cause you put on a [expletive] safari helmet and looked at some poop doesn't give you the right to insult what we do. Carr understood that internships — properly structured, supported, and financed — could foster substantive change. So, continue."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The trouble is that the list of values grows easily and can cause many employees to lose their focus. In a particularly clever step, the workers created a system of organization called the honeycomb structure and organized themselves into families: the turbine family, the coal-pile family, and the scrubber family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. There are two sets of social roles here.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. They can share samples of their writing to illus­trate key concepts such as simplicity and clarity, and they can teach tips on editing and proofreading. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts. It’s all very humbling.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2023

Great volunteers can be a huge asset to your nonprofit, donating hundreds or thousands of hours of work each year to your cause. Planning is key, so if you haven’t built structure around your volunteer program , it’s time to do that. The old saying is true – “Many hands make light work.” But it can be done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

Or waste time hunting through all those thousands of resources that you bookmarked and were locked in hierachical structure. " His introduction made me feel better and now I can learn and teach this tool too. In the continuing battle between the forces of neatness and messiness, tagging advances the cause of messiness. (I

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Unlocked Labs aims to reduce the disparity caused by such discrimination by empowering incarcerated people of color with a high-quality education to help them take up better jobs, improving their post-release prospects. The two organizations are using technology to bridge this racial divide. Helping Immigrant Communities of Color.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

My argument is that more eyes on Drupal’s code and more people performing formal security audits causes Drupal to uncover a greater percentage of issues. At the same time you made, IMHO, a very critical mistake by teaching people something about security that just isn’t useful. 6 David Geilhufe 04.07.09 “itâ??s

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The admissions team could have a smooth process, but the business office might need to do quite a few manual steps to make contract billing work, causing them overtime and headaches every year. Consider both flexibility and structure. We want students to do things in a structured way, which is how we teach them.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Governance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2019

And, he teaches that skill set in his new book, The Synergist -- How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success. In Part 1 of The Synergist , you'll learn about the root cause as to why most groups and teams are ineffective and fail to produce their best results. According to Tom Rath, author of Strengthsfinder 2.0,

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