Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2020

Organizational drag is all the practices, procedures, and structures that waste time and limit output. Left unchecked, organizational drag slows decision-making, increases costs, and becomes the "silent killer" of profitable growth. To combat organizational drag the first step is to practice good talent management.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. Non-profits know this is true, but the problem is investing in the resources needed to become a data-driven non-profits.&#. What is the difference?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

Unlike for-profits, nonprofits must do more with less. In order to counter the pending “leadership deficit,” organizations must take a new approach to building HPT’s, which involves approaching human resources strategically, creating a development plan, building a supportive culture and measuring performance. Measure Performance.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Today, sales teams harness the power of big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve performance and future proof profitability. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Even then, there are organizational models and structural templates you can build from. The gateway (i.e.,

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s a misconception that HR departments are just meant for the for-profit business world, but that’s not the case. In this article, we’ll cover: Nonprofit HR vs. For-Profit HR. By understanding the role of HR in your nonprofit, you can determine the best way to structure your HR approach to meet your organization’s needs.

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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. Organizational culture. Improved profitability. Peer-to-peer mentorship can help new team members acclimate to the organization faster and have a role model in a similar role to them.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. Unlike startups and rock stars, museums aren't structured to shoot for the moon and burn up trying.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2017

Organizational drag is all the practices, procedures, and structures that waste time and limit output. Left unchecked, organizational drag slows decision-making, increases costs, and becomes the "silent killer" of profitable growth. To combat organizational drag the first step is to practice good talent management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue. Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. that effective cultural movements move. 3) What are you trying to change?

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models. Who had the power to write these rules? But At What Cost?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. “The One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. Business leaders know their venture lives and dies on its profit margins and they pay special attention to every factor that can influence that.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. This volatility may become a huge difference from traditional fiat giving trends that show that Q4 is when most donors choose to give and lock in profits/losses in equity markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Gansky may well be right- but it’s not just in the for-profit world that these kinds of start-ups are disrupting business-as-usual. Some of the most promising innovations in the non-profit space are using substantially similar models. And she argues that they represent the future of our economy. The Value of Specificity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Digital and mobile communications are changing the rules about social networks, intellectual property, and the availability of big data, with an overall blurring of the boundaries between state, for-profits, and nonprofits. The Benetech Truths define our culture and focus our efforts on how we operate. copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits. In the for-profit world, it is called the sales funnel. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

In 2014, when Sea Change Strategies released The Missing Middle: Neglecting Mid-Level Donors Is Costing Non Profits Millions , we found a miles-wide tactical and cultural gap between direct marketers and major gifts officers that was leaving many mid-level programs in a lurch. Unique staffing models are emerging.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. “The One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Profits were allowed, but they were legitimized by the mission within the business charter. In modern-day America, businesses are held legally accountable to maximize profits for shareholders, frequently at the exclusion of all else. A structure has emerged to serve this purpose, called the Benefit Corporation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. “The One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Let's look at why and where crowdsourcing can be useful when organizations (private, public or not-for-profit) are facing important new or emerging issues. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars have been spent on visioning, strategic planning, culture change initiatives, coaching and more effective internal communications.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2019

What were the unique factors of Emancipet’s structure that led to that decision? In my experience, even an investor who gets a financial return is giving to make the community better and to help fulfill a mission, so their emotional needs and connection to the non-profit is not that different than the needs of a traditional donor.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

How much would John pay for rent and how should we structure it? Nonprofits use this grid to analyze program performance and to explore ways to shift UP towards higher mission fulfillment and/or RIGHT towards higher profitability. So we structured the rent in a “base with kicker” format. Who would manage construction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” There is a blurring between the for-profit and non-profit sectors. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” That’s changed. They want to combine both. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

His post was aimed at not-for-profit public media; I have genericized it somewhat ). Situation : We are living in a time of a major shift in culture. This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place. So how does this work?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For that reason, most nonprofits turn to the for-profit world for solutions. Those solutions—those companies—see the nonprofit world as a “market,” and in our capitalist society, markets are meant to be exploited for profit. How can we build something that is immune to the whims of the for-profit market? A tech start-up.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Technology For Results Not Profits panel Saturday, March 13 11:00 AM – “When technology is leveraged around passion and purpose for the sake of results not profits, powerful things can happen. It's a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll use Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model to outline a nonprofit change management plan that your organization can implement with minimal hassle and fuss. Instances where change management might be needed include adopting a new technology solution, product line, compensation structure, or standard operating procedure.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong When: Friday, March 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Room A Description: Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Non-Profits: Be the Web You Wish to See! Im @stanley00.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2016

While there is little consensus on a “single best practice”, three distinct models have emerged and are recognizable as the most prevalent. For an organization assessing its own structure, this blog is intended to provide a simplified basis for self-comparison against each of the three models.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. This isn’t just a change in youth culture. It’s a change that affects everyone.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Cost Structure: Understand the pricing model of the software you’re evaluating. It offers a suite of tools for nonprofits and for-profits alike that cover event planning, registration, and promotion. An intuitive interface can save you time and reduce training requirements for your team. Be aware of any hidden fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Change your organization's culture, work style, and tools to "look more like a cloud. He said: If you can permute your organization so that it looks more like the cloud, you’ll have an easier time working with the cloud. "I Morgan Scully suggested that a lot could be learned from studying cloud culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While the questions vary between the version for private foundations or small nonprofits, the 990 collects details on the financial, governance and organizational structure of America’s universities, hospitals, foundations, and charities to the end of ensuring that they are deserving of tax exempt status. With a national movement in the U.S.

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