Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Confusion and conflict emerge. When and how?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The rest of the day is spent learning about the local culture, including a walking tour of the city, visiting an historic site, and ending with a local cuisine cooking lesson. The goal is change cultural norms that tell women to be humble and not to speak out – and it ultimately holds them back. She modeled reading hers.

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Peru Exercise Empowerment Local 79

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Integrating IT into the organization’s strategy and culture should be the new reality. Help teams to feel comfortable with unfamiliar processes and learn to put a toe in the water of calculated risks by encouraging a culture where learning is valued and missteps, that occur in the process, are tolerated. It’s a choice.”

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Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Staff who know the program, the people, and the culture well. Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Evaluation Program Attitude Nonprofit 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Devi Thomas (DT): With the recent honoring of Junteenth, so much of what we do around the day is a celebration of freedom. The mistake will be if we just look for easy things to celebrate. Juneteenth is both an occasion for celebration and a moment for reflection. Hinton spent almost 30 years on death row in Alabama.

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Interview United States History Law 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes.

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Reflection Network Mexico South America 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Note from Beth: Blocking out time for your nonprofit’s staff to do planning and work on areas like organizational culture is essential for success. They wanted to strengthen connections with ETR’s Health Equity Framework, an evolving model that is essential to all of the work we do. Taking Care of the R-Team.

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Design Lesson Effective Life 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I did a mini-workshop on networked leadership and culture change to support these transformations. It celebrates the natural beauty of the area while educating the community about a green life style. Modeling: CEO needs to model the change they want to see inside their organizations. This takes patience.

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Digital Foundation Community Strategy 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? At the Packard Foundation our commitment to effectiveness directly plays out in our evaluation and learning culture and practices.

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Evaluation Learning Foundation Reflection 86

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll use Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model to outline a nonprofit change management plan that your organization can implement with minimal hassle and fuss. Kotter developed his 8-Step Change Model based on extensive research and real-world observations. And when the time comes to implement, they should help lead the way.

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Change Management Change Management Nonprofit 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. They model impersonal, businesslike relationships between the institution and the people who care about it the most.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy.

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Foundation Design Community Work 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Your social capital includes supporting your colleagues, community, contributing your time to volunteer, sharing your knowledge, modeling charitable behavior to your network, educating others about giving is important. They offered us a buffet of options – and allowed to pick and choose how to celebrate. How cool is that? (8)

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Gift Giving Celebrate Local 106

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. Why is gifting a model worth exploring? Why does Ebay email you a certificate to celebrate "your first positive feedback" on their site? How can you integrate facilitated gifting into your institution?

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You know, the end result looks really wonderful, there’s a big media blitz, social media posts, you know, everyone’s celebrating, but it doesn’t mean that there weren’t thorns along the way, difficulties along the way, or a lot of lessons learned. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic.

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Community Video Slides Survey 78

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. And then, if you have people that you’ve identified through wealth screening or predictive modeling that have a high planned giving likelihood, you can send to those people. They don’t want to stop.

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Video Giving Gift Donor 131

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you.

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Report Measure Impact Process 81

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We sang, we danced, and we celebrated what it means to have access to a resource that is so much more than just a resource. The level of joy and celebration was unforgettable because of what we were making happen, and the history we were making each day that we were there. This training was tremendous. It is about human rights.

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Director Ghana Africa North America 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. I don't think we learn very much about collaboration in our culture. It's all about collaboration. I think there should be whole semesters on how to work with other people.

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