Forum One

MAY 13, 2022

She delivers for her colleagues and for the mission-driven organizations who depend on us to do meaningful, impactful work while serving as a role model, mentor, guide, and coach for our teams at Forum One. Molly’s leadership has been critical to Forum One’s success. Jeff Traynor , Forum One’s Chief Operating Officer.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

They view stressors as changes, not threats. Ask your manager for a change in your work conditions. If I could identify what made them different from others – and what they shared in common – it might just hold the key for the rest of us to learn how to avoid burning out. So, what did these resilient role models have in common?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I Representation matters.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

This year will be a bit different, as many employees are still working remotely and in-person volunteering is not always possible. Each April, hundreds of thousands of companies and nonprofits celebrate National Volunteer Month in the United States — and millions more throughout the year celebrate across the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Performance evaluation should give staff the opportunity to set a goal to make change and to help track how they are doing on delivering what it is they promised.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Naropa University board chair Jerry Colonna opened the class with his transformational story of terrific success as an investor (Flatiron Partners, JP Morgan) that left him spiritually empty inside and how he changed his life dramatically and for the better. We mainly commiserated about the challenges of the app business model!

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. That said, employee engagement can look different for different organizations based on factors such as: Emphasis on teamwork. Talent attraction. Enhanced community impact.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some of these factors are environmental and out of your control: the economy, politics, changes in leadership, and pandemics. This means that a donor may have two or even three different people from the same organization soliciting them before they finally make a gift. Senior officers can help mentor new staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2015

This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring. Change is often easier said than done, but if we change our habits we change our personal and work lives and by extension our organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos. He seems to define social entrepreneurs as rapacious for-profit businesspeople who are modeling “themselves on the Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world.” Avoid indiscriminate dissemination of packaged interventions.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

A model of generosity. Dan was the sole anonymous donor for the program, which brushed off my indignity and furnished me with a new laptop, a mentor, and monthly checks for books, food and travel. The pursuit of social change is far bigger than any one of us. I met Dan when I was 20 and running a program for immigrant families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

A short twitter conversation I had with a colleague brought up the issue of whether or not this is just an exercise – will this actually lead to any lasting change? Are there good mentoring models? All of that makes a huge difference. That’s a good question. Say it, mean it. Tools (Tools are easy).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

A short twitter conversation I had with a colleague brought up the issue of whether or not this is just an exercise – will this actually lead to any lasting change? Are there good mentoring models? All of that makes a huge difference. That’s a good question. Say it, mean it. Tools (Tools are easy).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. . I don’t need to sort of belabor this point, but community is something that we all consider in various different ways. He’s now one of my mentors, advisors, and dear friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2018

They want to connect people to work they perceive as life-changing and sublime. But church planters pastors differ in an intriguing way: they are unapologetically evangelical. It's an abundance model, premised on the idea that more churches means more Christians and a better world for everyone. They bring new donors to Christ.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

During tough financial times, strong leadership may be the difference between those organizations that thrive and those that are unable to survive. Opportunities for growth are attached to broader goals of the organization, and skill development and mentoring are intentional to those specific areas.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They made the decision to pivot to a different kind of event: an online brunch fundraiser based on the peer-to-peer model called A Toast to AuSM – and it’s one of our top crowdfunding and peer-to-peer website examples from 2021. This could be as simple as changing your profile picture on CauseVox.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Check your state laws regarding raffles – you might need a special permit for a game of change. If you’ve never created this kind of detailed schedule before, find a mentor who can guide you. Many organizations have experimented with outdoor events, hybrid events, and other models that prioritize safety. A wine pull?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion. They pose alternatives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

I want to highlight a blog that I've been reading for a while, the Tutor Mentor Connection blog written by Daniel Bassill out of Chicago, Illinois. His blog gathers information and provides networking opportunities for people, like Daniel, who are involved with volunteer-based tutoring and mentoring programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

I like to balance two different approaches to professional networking, strategic and serendipitous. The people in your inner circle should also model positive behaviors, because if those around you are enthusiastic, authentic, and generous, you will be, too. How do you create the inner circle of your network?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Membership associations are a popular type of nonprofit that use a member-based business model to advocate for change and foster community—usually within a specific industry or sector. They play a pivotal role in fostering collaboration, advancing causes, and driving change across diverse industries and sectors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Understanding how a nonprofit leader can catalyze and guide systemic development to foster collaboration may lead to creating effective change on a greater scale. Scharmer (2008) accuses these failures to the blind “deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change” (Scharmer, 2008). percent in 2000 to 15.5 percent (U.S.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always believed in engineering as a creative path to changing the world, and my professors encouraged that mindset. I believe that setting that expectation at the outset made a big difference both in my eventual pay and the responsibilities offered to me. Heroes I admired from afar became friends and mentors. It is lucky.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. They're still part of the ICA family, and they are not totally moved out of the network, but they are at a different level.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 28, 2021

To truly honor all the individuals that make up the AAPI community, I want to tell the stories of different Asian Americans, challenge you to relate these stories to your own lived experiences, and begin to think about what true diversity and inclusion looks like. That’s especially true for Asian Americans. Do you tend to be hard on yourself?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 17, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Know When To Change Your Decision Leaders make decisions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Although, before each of these different parts of the presentation, I will pause to see if there’s anything in the chat box you want to discuss. But there are still opportunities, and there is some changes that funders have made to be mindful of those things during COVID. We need to increase our capacity.”

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI): Generative AI systems train on large language models, and the use cases for AI-powered tools are expanding rapidly. Encourage collaboration among your members, allowing them to get involved in creating different types of content on behalf of your association. Ask for feedback regularly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Leaders often ignore the fact that personal progress is one of our strongest human desires.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

The nonprofit sector has the ability to achieve significant social change through collaboration across sectors. Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007). When the U.S. Kaljunen, L.,

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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