Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. A student’s life is completely different.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

As a professional in the nonprofit sector, you can absolutely still work to be the best you can be, developing your personal and professional skills and advancing your career along the way. Ready to dive deeper into these three skills for furthering your nonprofit career? Actively look for new learning opportunities. . Online courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. We weren’t sure.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The challenge is grabbing your visitor’s attention. From there, you can structure your donation page so visitors will want to give. A person who received services telling how the organization helped them overcome a challenge is even better. And we all want more donors, right? But it’s not as easy as it sounds.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Brainstorm the skills, talents, and abilities you need so your marketing is clear. Is your Ideal Volunteer a college student with a lot of enthusiasm for staffing pet adoption events or tutoring middle-schoolers? For high school and college students, where are the nearby schools? Next, what are the required skills for the job?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Self-starter who thrives on challenges. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. Every manager knows the value of teamwork. Management philosophy for today.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Self-starter who thrives on challenges. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Self-starter who thrives on challenges. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 21 - 24.

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Gyrus

JUNE 16, 2016

Badging is an online representation of an earned skill, allowing you to share your skills and interests with the world in a visual manner. This allows for the opportunity of sub-tasks and additional skill-building exercises to prepare you for the next big event your character will be faced with.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2018

Systematic evaluation can positively impact the organization by creating more structure, providing results for adaptability, increasing volunteer retention and improving staff-volunteer relationships. Conduct annual evaluation of volunteer outputs, hours, programs, feedback, interests, demographics, psychographics, changes and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Now, many see the downsides, including crushing student debt along large numbers of credentialed people with few open jobs. Susan Spero (@Susan_Spero) December 6, 2019 Many brought up the challenges with museum studies programs, with Rich Ligner responding directly to Susan's tweet above. good riddance to museum studies programs!

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 15 - 16.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I did a scan of the several hundred organizations registered for the webinar, many from Jewish education organizations, looking at their social media engagement practices as well as a literature scan of alumni network engagement with social mediaHere’s some reflections: Alumni Networks: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

posted by Grant Deering Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. The remedy though is a lengthy and exhaustive processing of mission, purpose, vision, establishing of roles, sharing of strengths and weaknesses, preparation for power imbalances and conflicts, structure and governance, and planning.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

Another challenging aspect of inkind gifts is receiving supposedly gently used items that are more than gently used. A tiny nonprofit was launching a capital campaign to buy land and build a modular structure to meet the needs of the immigrants they served. So, what in the world would the shelter do with it? Five bedrooms!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. This is a challenge for both nonprofits and government officials.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, we take our interns seriously, give them real responsibility, creative challenges, and meaningful work opportunities. You don't have to be a student to be eligible. People who struggle tend to need more structure and direction than our institutional culture affords.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

But such educational opportunities are “often highly selective, and many barriers exist for students of color to both prepare for and access these programs,” the founders add. This level of skills and portfolio development would not have been possible without digital technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

They are our hope and our challenge. ” — Mario Morino, Morino Institute. “ In the same time, young people are the most connected, best informed and empowered generation ever, mostly due to new media and technology. ” – Vlad Atanasiu , Resource Center for Student Organizations (Romania).

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2015

This was my first year on the volunteer staff, and it was every bit as eye-opening for me as it was for the students attending the workshop. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” —Amy You can do this by observing the structure of other organizations.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

As a seasoned fundraising organization, you’re bringing your techniques and skills to a new platform. Challenging yourself is a good idea, but make sure your goal manageable. Timely: A timeframe will be the easiest way to structure your crowdfunding campaign and keep it on track. A $30 donation gives one student a backpack.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When talking about memberships, there are three important topics to discuss: membership structures, membership benefits, and membership dues. Membership Structures Associations can be structured in a number of different ways. Organizational Memberships: This structure is also quite common.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

For organizations that stick to a more traditional managerial and communications structure between now and then, however, raising money is going to be tougher in 2012 than in the darkest days of 2009. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. The economy may be hopping four years from now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. What have been the challenges of using that process? They're walking away with skills.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

And for evidence linking self-care to a reduction in burnout, see this study on US medical students and this thesis on mental health professionals. Museum professionals tend to be highly educated and museum experience results in a host of transferable skills such as project management, communications, and design.

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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. Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017! State/Local.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We know the burdens that can pop up, the mistakes, the challenges within these campaigns. I told someone just last week, you know, capital campaigns are a challenge in and out of themself. They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With informative sessions, this workshop is a must for all PBS fundraisers and provides the opportunity to hear about best practices and the challenges facing pledge today. Attendees will also hear from fundraising and nonprofit leaders in the New Orleans area who understand their unique needs and challenges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Plug donor skills into the work. Throughout the year you can connect with other donors and funders and the people we serve (artists, students, activists).”. By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. You get the idea.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia). Who's leading that charge?

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