Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. The success of each of these capital campaign committees depends in large part on the effectiveness of the meetings, in which they take part. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Hat tip/ Jen Bokoff ).

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

This kind of advisory committee might be crucial in making sure the programs your organization implements actually serve the community effectively. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Moreover, identifying and training your next generation of leadership helps prepare your organization for the future, allowing subsequent leaders to develop key skills and become invested in your nonprofit for the long term. Mentor and train your future leaders. How should you go about creating your succession plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. What gave me joy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A 2017 study found that while 80 percent of nonprofit leaders believe that social innovation is critical to success, only 40 percent reported that their organization had the capacity to do so effectively. Create cycles of adaptation within the organization that enable staff to experiment with need ideas in a structured way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Leadership training on communications styles.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? How do we get a telling the story about why this all important?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So what happens when your investment doesn’t pay off and your organization isn’t as effective as it should be? Employee engagement is a major indicator of your organization’s overall health and effectiveness in achieving your goals. Recruiting and onboarding new employees is far more costly than retaining existing trained employees.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Types of fundraising software to consider When you think about fundraising software, you probably first think of online donation platforms that allow nonprofits to facilitate online gifts. Keep in mind that the most effective fundraising software offers multiple tools within the same platform. Payment processing fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Your AMS is the lifeblood of your operations, streamlining processes, managing member data, and facilitating communication. Start Them Off with a Good Introduction Schedule time to have a training session that includes real examples of tasks they will be performing in the system.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. Segment your donor base : Use the information from the report to segment your donor base effectively. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. You did great.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Here are four tips we recommend for the rest of 2021 and beyond: Revisit your training and onboarding process. Revisit your training and onboarding process. Did you know that 76% of workplaces aren’t retaining their new hires after onboarding , with only 47% believing their onboarding program was effective at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. We and the Packard team are very interested in hearing the experiences of others.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Facilitator. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions. The downside is that they tend to leave no room for anyone else’s ideas which squashes creativity and can lead to high staff and volunteer turnover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

The Network Weaver Handbook is designed to give you skills and resources you need to build effective and innovative networks. If you are interested in building networks or working as Networked Nonprofit, you need this book right now!

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees. Implementation: Onboarding your team onto the CSR software often has associated costs like data migration, training, and customization to fit your specific needs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. In order to lead effectively, we need to be dialed in to our assumptions, emotions and the impact of our behaviors. and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. E is for empathy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Frost on Fundraising – Speaker Training.

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Fundraising Software: Fundraising software facilitates donations, fundraising events, and other online fundraising activities. Sudden increases in new donor accounts or records can make it very hard to manage your donor database effectively, especially if you’re only allowed a limited number of donor profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Flickr Image – ImageGroup. Today, this view is fundamentally changing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This problem is compounded by nonprofits’ lack of investment in manager training, leaving nonprofit organizations unprepared for the inevitable succession of leadership (Koenig, 2016). Organizations can start small, perhaps focusing on a few emerging leaders, and build structured leadership development systems over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. Clearly define workflow for online collaboration platforms and training.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. In order to lead effectively, we need to be dialed in to our assumptions, emotions and the impact of our behaviors. and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. E is for empathy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Intentional Silence: Leaving space for quiet, an essential facilitation skill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. In order to lead effectively, we need to be dialed in to our assumptions, emotions and the impact of our behaviors. and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. E is for empathy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you're overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective – from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. How do you make sense?

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