sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. But it is a different way of thinking for most grantmakers, so it can be difficult to know where to start. Is this you?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. 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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

What’s even better is looking behind and seeing you’ve left a path to help others, or coming to the aid of someone who needs help on their personal journey up ahead. You can mentor or teach a class with Tech Forward. You can review resumes, do mock interviews, or be a referral to job seekers through GEMs in Tech.

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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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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While 2020 is no different in that regard, our reflections are paired with an urgent desire to put this difficult year behind us. The end of the calendar year is traditionally a time of reflection – looking back on the year’s achievements, challenges, joys, and losses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That's the Robin we all collectively know personally. The sister, the aunt, the friend, the mentor. However, I'm here to spotlight the impact Robin had on millions of people who never had the pleasure of meeting her personally. Whatever works for the reader who needs to read differently. Make it bigger. Make it talk.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

They are learning the ways different generations adapt and grow in the workplace and how to build an environment that helps the organization succeed. Nonprofit employees are believed to be in this sector because of an intrinsic motivation to make up for the difference in compensation from the for-profit sector for competing positions.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That said, employee engagement can look different for different organizations based on factors such as: Emphasis on teamwork. In fact, Highly engaged business units achieve a 43% difference in turnover. Similarly, when work bleeds into an employee’s personal life, it can burn them out and decrease efficiency.

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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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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. Participants could cook along with celebrity chefs and have brunch at home.

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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. When the personal computers were first dropped into American schools, they didn’t have the desired impact because the supporting environment wasn’t there. His biggest prescription is around connecting with these human forces.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

It’s very personal to me. . 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. . – [Lindsay] You’re awesome.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

Startup nonprofits, nonprofit newbies, umbrella organizations, community foundations, mentors… there are a lot of ways people may think about or refer to fiscal sponsorships, even if they’re unfamiliar with the term “fiscal sponsorship.” Here are just some of the many benefits of fiscal sponsorship: Fiscal sponsorship saves time .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching.

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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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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. The organization is strategic about who it is investing in, and how it is investing in that person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

I never dive into the tools, this session began with a focus on how and where listening fits in the organization and the work flow. I demoed a lot of different techniques in real time with suggestions of keywords or examples from the participants. In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques.

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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. Core relationships should result in more learning, less bias in decision making, and greater personal growth and balance. People who are influential and who provide mentoring, sense-making, political support, and resources.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you are expecting 70 people at $100 a person, that’s $7,000. Make sure the person with the strongest connection to the prospect is the one who makes the ask. If you’ve never created this kind of detailed schedule before, find a mentor who can guide you. Start with a calculation for ticket sales. How many people will attend?

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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

I modeled that I don't know everything. So, I demonstrated how to tag a person in a wall post and posted the question: Manny Hernadez : Should an organization that serves both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking audience (and some only speak one language) have two different Fan Pages in the native language? How do you do it?

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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. How Memberships Work for Associations Membership lies at the heart of the association business model. This article’s got all your bases covered!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I believe that setting that expectation at the outset made a big difference both in my eventual pay and the responsibilities offered to me. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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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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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore four key considerations to keep in mind so your association can reap the benefits of engaged members: Use technology to personalize member experiences. Use technology to personalize member experiences. Providing personalized experiences has become a standard, almost expected, practice among marketers.

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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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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. I’ve seen a lot of transitions, people moving to different positions, people taking on more responsibilities than they normally would. There’s different kinds of grants.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

So, Tracy teaches you how to make your employees happy by: Organizing their work from the first step in the hiring process through the final step in their departure from your company so they are happy with you, their work, their coworkers, as well as in their interactions with your customers, suppliers and vendors.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

If you are going to buy something anyway, as a gift, or for yourself as a decorative item, or for your home, then why not buy something that has the hope or a dream of another person embedded into it, and by purchasing that thing, you are joining with them to pull that forward.-- So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 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). Okay, so youve found your New Years resolution for your personal life. Exercise more.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 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

AUGUST 7, 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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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 12, 2023

As you hone your approach to leveraging social media for marketing purposes, remember to rely on your association management software (AMS) to help you personalize your outreach, gather data on how your strategy is working, and help you keep track of new members. Second, be transparent on social media about your membership model.

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