Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Today brings a book that is an indispensable resource for public relations practitioners who want to learn how to navigate the ever-changing landscape of public relations – which has become a far cry from primarily writing press releases and establishing media contacts. This new installment, edited by Robert L.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2020

With the world caught in the throes of the global pandemic, many things are rapidly changing. It’s a win-win situation as well, for volunteers are 27% likelier to be hired, thanks to the skills and experience earned through volunteering. Companies are reinventing themselves for a socially-distant world, but they’re not the only ones.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 20, 2019

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Change San Francisco Teach Metrics 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

The worry about a steep learning curve is more of a mindset change, from letting go of doing the work from zero to 100% and shifting to focusing on the 80-100%. Another example includes using AI to optimize volunteer engagement by aligning opportunities with individual skills and interests.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Change San Francisco Teach Metrics 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 12, 2023

The peer groups also offer opportunities for member v olunteers to develop more skills and become leaders. Empower your volunteers by offering the chance for members to teach in your learning program or speak at your annual conference. Provide volunteer orientation so your members know their roles inside and out. Mentor/Mentee program.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work. Passing the CFRE exam demonstrates you’ve done the work necessary and have the skills to develop relationships with donors, increase volunteer engagement, and lead a team of skilled fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Autumn brings more than a colorful display of leaves changing, though. The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change by Beth Kanter and Allison H. How nonprofits use stories to create impact and change the world by Lisa Gerber. Build a mobile strategy now with the help of this book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2016

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

Change 40

Change San Francisco Teach Metrics 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Change San Francisco Teach Metrics 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Change San Francisco Teach Metrics 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life. The #PACE process works not only for Millennials and Gen-Zers, but also for anyone looking to make a change in their professional career. I deeply emphasize the importance of grit, charisma, perseverance, and emotional agility.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. 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.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life. The #PACE process works not only for Millennials and Gen-Zers, but also for anyone looking to make a change in their professional career. I deeply emphasize the importance of grit, charisma, perseverance, and emotional agility.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Juni Felix, a member of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab teaching team and an expert in behavior change shares how to create effective systems using the science of behavior design to elevate your donor engagement game. Behavior design strategies can help. Listen to this episode. It‘s Time to Decide. Listen to this episode.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The retreat curriculum is built around the ALF’s “I-WE-IT” - skills that today’s social change leaders need as we move towards more collective approaches. In this highly interactive three-day workshop, we’ll take a deep dive into transformative leadership for social change. What is I-WE-IT ?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 21, 2015

Pottruck ''s book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? We all love energizing beginnings and happy endings, but it is the middle of a process of change that involves hard work. Essentially, design thinking process teaches how to be iterative. Next, we looked for patterns and grouped together the sticky notes into clusters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Whether your brand has created itself, you’ve outgrown your original brand, you’re ready for the next level, or you’ve changed your passion or purpose, this book is for you,” shares McGovern. And no other book on personal branding teaches readers the sales skills that will help them sell that brand—sell themselves—like a pro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Volunteers help change the lives of those in their community as a social responsibility rather than receiving a financial reward. One example is the Rotary Club, which was formed as a place for people of different backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs to come together and exchange valuable ideas, create friendships, and make a change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2023

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. WTF?) -- Changing The Way Businesses Create Experiences. Reilly, this is the book for brushing up on your leadership skills, or learning what to do in your new leadership role. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. His work still inspires us and helps bring the Paradox System to life: Assumptions – change the question. Changing the question invites us to think more creatively about possible answers. Navigating paradoxes involves ongoing change and experimentation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This trend, combined with the many subsequent senior executive changes, offers the necessary leadership foundations to accelerate enterprise transformation. Universities are learning from other industries and accelerating business model innovation, with a focus on hybrid learning and teaching. Business Model Innovation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Sesno's book teaches readers how the power of questions: Opens doors Uncovers Solutions Sparks Change More specifically, he reveals: The power and payoff of targeted diagnostic questions. How strategic questions can ease the hardest decisions and support triumphant outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me. I have been delivering virtual master classes and helping to develop their capacity building programs in digital skills. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. His work still inspires us and helps bring the Paradox System to life: Assumptions – change the question. Changing the question invites us to think more creatively about possible answers. Navigating paradoxes involves ongoing change and experimentation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2015

Pottruck ''s new book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

Change 40

Change San Francisco Teach Leadership 40

Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

But, it’s time to face the music for the opportunity to share what, in short, as cliche as it sounds, has changed the trajectory of my career, and life. I’m eager for the day I’ll be ready to carry weight and help create change with this team!” What I Learned from the RiseUp Fellowship.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life. The #PACE process works not only for Millennials and Gen-Zers, but also for anyone looking to make a change in their professional career. I deeply emphasize the importance of grit, charisma, perseverance, and emotional agility.

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Interview Technique Skills Generation 52

Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Making small changes to your process, leveraging the input of volunteers, and creating ongoing value can be enough to make supporters feel as though your nonprofit is challenging them and their contribution to the greater good. Provide volunteers with valuable skills. Here is a guide on how to engage volunteers that may help!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2021

How you can develop new skills to increase your influence. As you embark on the changes you choose to make to become more impactful and influential in your workplace, the authors recommend you: Make the changes that you have identified as important to you, your manager, and your organization.

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