Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Leveraging creativity – How your persuasive message resonates with listeners (storytelling, visual aids, structure, curiosity) Honing your delivery – Your unique style, movement, personality, and ability to execute effectively. Sjodin : Great Question! Questions: So many presenters default to PowerPoint as their presentation tool.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Notably, both of these advisory committees have different foci (that should absolutely be defined in advance). These questions should help you make sure you are recruiting people with the right skill sets who can represent experiences and voices that you may not have on your staff. Create structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups. If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. There are two ways to do brainstorming.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Critical Questions What is your association’s value proposition?

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2024

It provides a structure that specifies what tools can be used, who makes those decisions, what acceptable inputs are, and how staff will interpret and apply the AI-generated outputs. Given Candid’s varied technology needs, we use a variety of AI tools across different departments.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. Every meeting hosted as part of your capital campaign will look different depending on where you are at in the process, which specific committee is meeting, and what they’re aiming to accomplish. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

These are organizations that are not going back to their pre-pandemic structures and offerings. The BAAA’s annual conference is held at different times of the year, in different locations, and with different program elements. Many are re-imagining their conferences.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different. Once we embrace knowledge work, not as a technical task but as social construction, we then start to ask exciting questions about relationships, purpose, and movement. Although these may sometimes be talked about as the same, there are important differences.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Looking backwards at historical data helps you answer that question. You probably start ticking through a familiar list of questions that help you make your culinary and nutritional decisions: Do I need coffee? And looking forwards through data modeling allows you to make predictions about the future. Data helps us make decisions.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In a culture that supports innovation, everyone feels encouraged and confident to brainstorm, introduce new ideas, ask questions, and start conversations in order to identify opportunities for enhanced impact. Trust: A trusting environment ensures your team feels comfortable sharing their ideas and asking questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Together, the data from analytics and user feedback can help inform improvements, structure, and enhancements to your redesigned website. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? Here’s an example of how to structure your scoping document outline: About the Organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Meet the demand for direct and intentional forays into the heart of power structures, forces, and accepted traditions. As I worked with hundreds of leaders in organizations large and small, across industries and with very different business models, I began to construct an approach that would both create and ensure belonging.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because some fee structures work better for different-sized organizations. Carefully assess your nonprofit’s needs and compare fee structures to find the right fit for your fundraising efforts. Payment processing fees are often different based on the payment method, whether credit card, ACH, etc. per transaction.

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Network for Good

MAY 7, 2021

Then, track those different groups. It’ll help you find out the impact different variables have on your goals for email engagement. Compare your present performance to your past performance, and then looking for outliers to inform how you structure your communications going forward. How many people open each email?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The book is structured into 15 insightful chapters, each focusing on a unique aspect of power and influence. Dilenschneider Today, Dilenschneider shares these insights with us: Question: What inspired you to write The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence ? In our rapidly changing world, adaptability and influence are key to success.

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Influence Build Lesson Chapter 73

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question come from a nonprofit leader who wants advice on how to frame monthly gift asks to minimize accounting complications between restricted and unrestricted gifts: . Social Entrepreneur, You’ve wrapped a number of questions into one here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

It’s important to understand your traffic sources so you can attribute revenue to different ways you’re trying to find more donors. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? They’re an industry-standard way to categorise traffic from all your different marketing initiatives. What are UTM s?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Covid-19 has completely readjusted how we all think about our day-to-day lives, including how we give back and make a difference in our communities. Adapting to our circumstances has taught us to utilize the tools we have and find unique ways to do what we have always done by innovating how programs are structured.

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 1, 2023

Listen to the full audio recording In this interview, we cover the most frequently asked questions about VolunteerHub implementation and training, as well as provide insights into what new clients can expect during the process. These questions have been answered by Matthew Murphy, our Implementation and Training Manager.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 1, 2023

According to reports, 69% of people are more likely to commit time to an organization with a structured onboarding program. Appeal to Different Learning Types People learn and comprehend information in different ways. Consider adding questions about orientation and training to your volunteer satisfaction survey.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT can’t generate effective emails on its own.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

Consider asking questions like: What inspired you to volunteer with our organization? Relevant questions might include: On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with your volunteer experience? This evaluation can help fine-tune program structures, training methods, and task assignments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. The presentation is here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

Learning 52

Learning Leadership Benchmark Story 52

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent).

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Blue Fox

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That is the thinking behind The Board Doctor's Wellness Test with 10 questions designed to provide a snapshot of how well a nonprofit board of directors is functioning in its governance role. At the end of the ten Wellness Test questions are three optional questions that will help us categorize different types of nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions. This is different from summing up tasks and deadlines at the end of the meeting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Get started by answering the following questions: Based on traffic sources, how are visitors finding our website? So how do you tell if your website works on different devices? Is the donation form easy to use on different devices like a computer and phone? Answering common questions that your staff gets asked all the time.

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Classy

MAY 10, 2021

An underwhelming first impression or a poorly structured design can be the difference between converting a visitor or losing a donation. . Custom questions. Your donation page is your organization’s most valuable tool. Download Your Donation Page Checklist. Giving options. Domain-masking . Suggested donation values. Dedications.

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Nucleus

AUGUST 17, 2021

Some questions to consider before conducting a survey include: Why are we conducting a survey? What question are we trying to answer? Once you know your survey’s raison d’etre , you can move forward in designing a survey instrument (also known as “the questions”). These types of questions tend to be ranking questions (e.g.,

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2021

Knowing which donations were included in each deposit, how the fees were calculated, and getting the answers to questions that arise, can be overwhelming. . The same Bloomerang support team that supports all your other Bloomerang needs will be able to answer any questions during signup, or on an ongoing basis. Simple Fee Structure.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As you build a basic structure for your community, think through which activities the majority of your members will be interested in. Here are a few ideas that require different investments of time and energy to appeal to a variety of member preferences: Discussion forums. Volunteer committees. Networking events.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Once Candid collects data from these sources, we clean, code, structure, and enhance the data to make it more accessible and useful. We also link grants from different funders to the same recipient to visualize the broader funding ecosystem. corporate donations, public charities that give donations).

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Forum One

APRIL 6, 2023

There are lots of different pieces that go into the whole process, from engaging with services, digital tools, people, and places. This is how it differs from products. These are all the systems, policies, and structures that influence the customer journey. For our example, it’s the plane ride itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Thanks Geoff! ).

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