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. More and more of government parties require collaboration with non-governmental leaders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In 2017, I attended a small conference of government representatives, civil society leaders, and tech company volunteers from around the world. Its purpose was to assess the role of technology in tackling modern slavery and identify ways to improve our impact. Technology is not always an appropriate tool or intervention.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

We then kicked off a conversation with early Demographics via Candid partners Satonya Fair of PEAK Grantmaking , Grant Elliot of Foundant Technologies , Dawn Stone of Center for Nonprofit Management , and Michael Wright of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to discuss their first-hand experiences collaborating with Candid on this initiative.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Declining enrollment leads to not only decreased tuition revenue but also diminished government funding and reduced philanthropic support. Some government funding hinges on full-time enrollment numbers, and fewer full-time students means less subsidy. Here are some ideas to rejuvenate a shrinking pipeline: Collaborate.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. Strategic storytelling, media engagement, social media campaigns, and community collaborations are some of the different ways that your association might want to share its mission and values with the wider world.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. Tags: events collaboration shine09 social collaboration game socialmedia. Visit the SHINE socialreporter blog to read David’s post.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Over the years, my experience in a variety of financial leadership roles has led me to the following hypothesis: nonprofit finance is critical to mission success. Given the integral connection between financial and organizational success, I wanted to dig deeper into the nonprofit CFO role. Completing the Circle.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

We recently sat down with Chris to talk through how his career experience—from Fair Trade to Salesforce to Classy—has uniquely prepared him to take on this role, his vision for Classy’s future, and why his obsession with verifiable value will lay the foundation for everything the company does moving forward. .

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? to information exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0”

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models? When faced with this list of challenges, I've seen some nonprofits try and find a life-raft in the IT ocean by following what larger commercial or government organizations do. Defining the different roles helps avoid this.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains. Like this article? Get another!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. At Forum One, we are big proponents of the “people” part, because we recognize how critical a role it can play in the success or failure of these initiatives. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Even better.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. Nonprofit organizations, local and federal governments, campaigners and even businesses are trying to innovate at the speed of communities. Communities As A Model. Share the spotlight : Remember, you’re not driving.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Government Affairs. 10 years in this role leading large teams in the four main areas of accounting, investments, donor development, and revenue cycle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Congress are undermining decades of the sector’s work on immigration; women, minority and LGBTQ rights; the environment; and the social contract with government—among other issues. Social change leaders are tasked with doing what they have always done and collaborating more readily, while under threat, and at the current speed of change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

When staff are happy and feel good with not only the work they are doing, but know that they are appreciated and are shown that their work matters, the likelihood of them sticking around in their role is much higher. Second, better results for the organization as whole. However, training can positively influence the bottom line.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. What’s our role? Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The first condition is a panoramic perspective or an ability to look beyond traditional sector roles, titles, and stereotypes, as well as profit, to create real societal value. We also participate in communities of practice ourselves and have observed some particularly successful collaborations over the years. Skills for Cities.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model. Once set, all future actions can be compared back to the model. Takeaway #4: Collaboration is necessary to solve the big issues today. . If it doesn’t align with those goals or power the outcomes you want to see, don’t put resources behind it.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education and industry leaders have been collaborating to respond and change course through this time of uncertainty. Part of that conversation was the role international students play around the world. Are there local markets we have not thought about sufficiently?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Lastly, you’ll want to identify what roles are needed. This is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote quite a while ago that compares the roles of gardeners and landscapers in the context of community building. The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. But what are some best practices?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We're collaborative, bringing a valuable vantage point that stems from having worked with hundreds of community-based organizations. Entrepreneurship At ZeroDivide, we fund nonprofit organizations that employ new models of economic sustainability. But access to technology is just the starting point.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. New school – David Stephenson kicked off the panel by highlighting the decline of the “managerial” role in control content. However, these traditional models are breaking apart.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

From collaboration to cost management, nonprofits are trying to protect their (precious little) infrastructure and enterprise while serving even more people. How can we expect nonprofits to pick up the slack of government cuts? This debt, however, comes with an interest expense, which is not reimbursed by government contracts.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

Now that you know how to place the right people in the right positions based on their skills to succeed, it is also important to ensure that you have implemented a governance model. So, what is Salesforce governance? Salesforce governance, specifically, includes three major components. Why Does Governance Matter?

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

The program can be broken down into two different tracks: Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs). For more information on the role of education and performance improvement, read our blog post on How Medicare Payment Changes will Drive Performance Improvement.

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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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Technology has an important role to play in solving the world’s biggest issues, but for trafficking in particular, technology is a foundational piece to solving the problem — for everything from tracking offenders to supporting the survivors who are critical to developing a more victim-centered solution. How are you combating trafficking?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Philanthropists, nonprofits, and the development sector as a whole cannot underestimate the role they have to play in understanding and using technology for development. Lock Step: “A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.”

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

This is a prudent collaboration since a viable deal structure requires all three to remain ‘whole’ for the lifetime of a purchasing arrangement. The foundation of an agreement – which captures behavioral rules and roles – usually as a set of Service Levels for performance, and Charters that codify roles and responsibilities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

In other words, the effectiveness of the charitable work ultimately falls to how the nonprofit is governed. The question then turns to this: how can nonprofits structure their governance based on their organizational and lifecycle needs? 378) (Brown, 2005, p. 330) (Bradshaw, 2009, p. 1996, 370-73).

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