Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. It takes money and basic ground rules to drive the system toward doing it. Eggers and Donald F.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 2, 2008

The other day a friend dropped by the office to talk to us about how we manage chapters in our software. For example, he wondered if we assumed that the national organization did the dues billing, and distributed revenue to the chapters? Or the reverse: that chapters collect the dues and send it upstream to headquarters?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

See if your state, local, or regional AFP branch is hosting a reception! You’ll meet up with fundraisers from your area and make valuable local connections. AFP ICON is the most well-known (and most widely attended) conference, but many smaller AFP chapters host their own conferences and workshops.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 20, 2021

National or umbrella organizations can support local branches or individual chapters by lifting up their community-specific stories to become part of an overarching and authentic narrative. Social justice issues such as systemic racism have taken the spotlight in recent years. Here are my top five insights from that discussion.

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Forum One

JANUARY 4, 2022

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Let’s take a look back at a few of the amazing client projects that have been recognized over the course of 2021.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. We identified grants ranging from $750,000 to $126 million.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Best Environmental Website. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The offers chapters on how to design and build a network, including a special chapter for funders as well as a rich selection of resources. Assessment: How will the network monitor its condition and performance? Operating Principles: What rules will guide the network’s culture?

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VisionLink

MARCH 11, 2010

Organized through SFCARD, the founding partners include the Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, the San Fransisco Department of Emergency Management, the United Way of the Bay Area, 2-1-1, the Salvation Army, the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD), and the Fritz Institute.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Excellence – Website for Environmental Awareness. The Vilcek Foundation. Excellence – Website for Art. Distinction – Website for Art.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Canopus – Website for Environmental Awareness. National Air & Space Museum. Canopus – Website for Cultural.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. And how do you handle a tech glitch —or even a systems crash? What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. GOLD – Activism for Websites. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Choose tactics to support each objective Use reporting tools in your donor management system and marketing platforms to help keep your team accountable for reaching your goals. Critically, it includes information about how the chapter will scale up its conservation efforts and how donors, partners, and volunteers can support each effort.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

The AFP Exchange hosted vendors from all facets of fundraising, donor management systems, consultants, email systems, and more. Countless receptions were hosted across the city for affinity groups and chapters. She faced tremendous isolation, often being the only person of color in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and urban games group DCGames, organizing events and connecting local developers.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The staff of a nonprofit school or tutoring system may prefer academic journals, while those at the local animal shelter may prefer online training courses. . For instance, let’s say you read a chapter of a book that is highly relevant to your organization’s mission statement.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

If you have a good CRM system you can segment by issue area, donor level, and location, right down to the city zip code. For example, if you were a national animal welfare organization with chapters across the U.S. For example, if you were a national animal welfare organization with chapters across the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2009

The talk was hosted by the Caltech Y, as well as by the local chapter of NetImpact and the alumni association, as part of their Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS). I recently was invited to give a talk at my alma mater, Caltech. The Y also organized hikes and other recreational activities.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

One of my first summer jobs as a teenager was helping a local business with some edits to its website. " Web content management systems (CMSes) are also great, but as anyone who's used one for very long knows, there's no such thing as a perfect what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editor. My website is built in Drupal."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2011

Will it allow you to give separate permissions to committee or chapter leaders? Component and chapter strategy. My former association, RIMS, provides each chapter with its own simple CMS and 25 design themes to choose from. As members build networks on the chapter sites, they’re also adding data to the overall site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Reading a chapter of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase dramatically (OK, overly dramatically) into a tape recorder. One of the reasons I stopped working as the program director for an arts education nonprofit five years ago was because I was so frustrated with the public school system we worked in.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. We''re a [global movement]([link] with chapters in 20 countries. Victoria, British Columbia: How to Choose a Content Management System for Your New Website. Thursday, April 16, 2015. John Kaama School.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Finding the right funders that match your mission, your specific project, and your geographic locale is quite an art. They usually have local chapters. Your local community directory at the Foundation Center. Approach potential partners and local leaders to let them know about your search. Clubs and Organizations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event. Artis said that TechHire is the first initiative to ask, "What are the systemic problems? The Power of a Year. The reality, said Artis, is that companies are not being set up for a diverse workforce right now.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The two developed a system of fundraising that had never been seen before: setting a time limit on their campaign for constructing a new building in Washington D.C., The two developed a system of fundraising that had never been seen before: setting a time limit on their campaign for constructing a new building in Washington D.C.,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit (See Chapter 2, "Documentation and Your Master Key," and Chapter 3, "Remote and Local Backup." The DARA system is a wheel, or maybe it's an ouroboros. The goal of the documenting phase is just to get everything on paper. Easy, right? Change One Person.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit (See Chapter 2, "Documentation and Your Master Key," and Chapter 3, "Remote and Local Backup." The DARA system is a wheel, or maybe it's an ouroboros. The goal of the documenting phase is just to get everything on paper. Easy, right? Change One Person.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. What Can Be Done with a Cloud IT System?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs. Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries and other educational infrastructure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Two years ago, with funds from the Long Island chapter of the American Association of University Women, we were able to replace their highly arsenic contaminated well with a huge rainwater collection tank and delivery system to supply safe drinking water. Now Beng Krom???s family latrine??? shown above.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. What Can Be Done with a Cloud IT System?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

The Affiliate (Chapter or Office) – who run locally and execute fundraising, advocacy, finance, administration or programmatic work in their respective geography. The premise is that when central office buys an information system solution it has many factors to consider.

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See3

AUGUST 9, 2007

The result is that you can go into your local Walgreens or CVS and see a Red Cross endorsed product competing with a similar product from Johnson & Johnson. The story is not about misleading ads or about consumer product sales or about local chapters run amok. The authentic story is about helping people.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

While slavery may have ended on this day many years ago, we at Media Cause are aware that its lasting impacts stay with us in the form of systemic racism. Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Find yours here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I contributed a chapter on this topic to the Psychology of Facebook , so I'm going to stop myself from going on about that now. There are also some systemic ways to address this, certainly the work that social actions is doing. I'm giving Causes an A plus for the tips and reminders in email.

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