Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

To stay grounded and thriving in life, you need to know when those times are and dig in, put your phone down, silence your ringer and be where your feet are. I can earnestly put my phone down for several hours at work each day, because I know I have an hour budgeted for a walk with my wife when I get home. Give this exercise a try.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2020

There are many considerations to go over, including what types of campaigns to employ, what fundraising strategies to exercise during these campaigns, and what your revenue goals are. . Therefore, we know that phone calls have a positive impact on your first-time donor retention rate. So how do you make the most of these phone calls?

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

In this article, I will talk about how you can support your organization’s charitable gift efforts. Try this exercise. Get a clock that counts seconds, like your watch or cell phone. Then time how long it takes you to say the following words, “Can you help us with a gift of $100?” That certainly occurs.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Donor-Centered Leadership (Amazon link) Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money: A Cookbook of Easy-to-Use Fundraising Exercises by Andrea Kihlstedt and Andy Robinson Whining about our boards. It’s more relevant now than ever before. It’s become an Olympic sport. Monthly giving has the power to transform your fundraising.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

And PUT DOWN THE PHONE. Someone else can call area businesses to ask for gift cards. Ask them to remind you that you’re working too much or that you are on your phone when you shouldn’t be. Self-care doesn’t have to be a big intensive undertaking! Begin or increase your activity and try to fit in 30 minutes each day.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

To walk you through a mindfulness exercise, our very own Product Content Specialist, Kimber Wiggs, has created a guided meditation especially for fundraisers! Turn off notifications on your phone at certain times of the day or for non-critical apps. Check it out below. Schedule Time to Prioritize YOU. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The mini-session included some practical tips and a reflective exercise based on the emerging nonprofit leaders peer learning project I facilitated last year. We ended the afternoon with a coaching exercise that helps motivate and empower people by focusing on their strengths. .” You can find the resources here.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Kids around the country received an early and much-needed gift this December in the form of — you guessed it — broccoli and green beans. Alliance for a Healthier Generation : The Alliance offers some pretty cool tools for parents, kids, and schools to promote healthy eating habits and exercise.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

I suggest using these as a brainstorming exercise with your team (executive management; development; board or whoever your key stakeholders are) to develop the raw material you’ll need to create a future-facing strategic plan that speaks to the times in which we’re living. Please read my article linked above; let’s then explore further. .

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2021

Using this simple exercise , you can coach just about anyone to build a list of prospective donors. While board members can make phone calls and write personalized thank-you letters, you’ll want to add new donors’ contact information to your database and send regular communications. What matters most is their passion.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Instead of multiple phone calls back and forth, they can just enter their information on your online form and press “submit.” Even though the calls were simply to check in with donors and see how they were doing during a trying time, it also resulted in gifts. This is any type of gift that isn’t financial!

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Try my kitchen table exercise. Stiff and formal does not motivate people to read emails and respond with a gift. That kind of reading can feel like a chore, especially if you are reading on your phone screen, which most of your readers probably are. How do you make sure your donor feels like you are writing just to them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I visited the central market where there are many flip flop vendors. I wanted to bring back some as gifts for my teen girls in my family. Teens As Free Agents. Brasil is famous for its flip flops, a brand called Havaianas. But I didn’t know their color preference. So, I texted them. Within two minutes I got an answer.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 27, 2016

After speaking with nonprofits about the need to access matching gift funds in a cost-effective way, Double the Donation was born. _. those resolutions to eat healthier foods, exercise more and have a more positive outlook. those resolutions to eat healthier foods, exercise more and have a more positive outlook.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Why that gift is important, how it will make a difference, and why someone should give now is part of the story you weave with the narrative, images, and video. Especially if the emails are not mobile friendly or responsive, the “donate” button is the easiest way for someone on a mobile device to click to make a gift. Gift premiums.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2014

Tell me a Development Director, Executive Director, or Board Member, that wouldn’t love to see a few gifts of $145 from 25 year olds? Instead, Millennials are enticed by volunteer opportunities, chances to spread the word about your organization, and give in-kind gifts. 98% use their cell phone as their primary phone.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

We ran a series of “Please visit this website and make a gift” usability tests on nine different nonprofit websites. You’re giving them trust that their gift matters. #5: In early 2014, designer Darin Cavanaugh and myself conducted a study to discover the most serious accessibility problems facing nonprofit websites.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2014

Tell me a Development Director, Executive Director, or Board Member, that wouldn’t love to see a few gifts of $145 from 25 year olds? Instead, Millennials are enticed by volunteer opportunities, chances to spread the word about your organization, and give in-kind gifts. 98% use their cell phone as their primary phone.

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Qgiv

MAY 7, 2021

Healthy events that encourage exercise, like 5Ks and 10Ks can be perfect for healthcare fundraising. Chances are, your donors have a smart phone. There’s an even better chance they use their phone to get online and make purchases. That means they should also be able to donate from their mobile phones. bottom line.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 14, 2017

It’s a great exercise. Ensure it works on mobile phones and tablets. Thank donors for every gift they make. Your online donation form is used by many of your older, traditional donors because it’s convenient for them. Have you ever asked a parent or grandparent to test your online donation form for you?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Do you have a donor-tracking software where you can record donor and gift information? 8 Keys to Writing the Perfect Fundraising Letter Your fundraising letter must quickly grab the reader’s attention, tell a story , and ask for a gift. It’s the amount and the purpose for their gift. Your gift of $10.87 Your gift of $21.74

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

She also stressed that this philosophy is as important for giving gifts of $10 as it is for $10 million. 13% of adult mobile users use their cell phones to avoid people in real life, calling it “e-avoiders” 56% are confused about the truth because of the information overload. Healthy Mind Platter.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 16, 2014

Delegate and automate as many components of your routine as you can so that you’re working no more than 35-40 hours/week—and have two days off/week (and your phone isn’t beeping every five seconds.) Remember sleeping, eating and exercising? Those need to make a comeback. Cement Your Relationship With Your Spouse.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

Personally, I’m already a week into my New Year diet and exercise regimen, but for nonprofit organizations, resolutions can be used to revitalize a number of initiatives around organization efficiency, relationships with donors and new goals to make a number of areas of better for both the nonprofit and its constituents.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 18, 2009

Just like you have to plan when you're going to make time to exercise, you have to do the same with shopping and cooking. Keep my grocery list in my phone. I made three dishes (pictured above) A Hummus Recipe, Corn and Edamame-Sesame Salad, and Chewy Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies. Some weeks are easier than others.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . It’s closer to the gift. . But when you’ve given yourself, that gives you some power to ask for a gift from someone else.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. On a private plane, I didn’t know banks own private planes, but they flew me on a private plane to talk to the Mabee Foundation in Oklahoma and we got $250,000 gift from there. I may drop off a gift.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. And the question, tell me more, or I’m so interested, let me hear your path, let me hear your story, that is an offering and a gift that is priceless. You could start the exercise by just doing that for yourself. .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2011

I, myself, have asked charities this very question upon receiving a phone call asking for my support. I tell them, “Yes, I would like to make a gift this year, however I would prefer you save the stamp and I’ll go online to make my gift. In short, what prompts an online gift? Can I give through your website?”

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise. I heard about this exercise at a conference and thought “I want to try this.” Here are some examples: For a soup kitchen: Give the gift of a hot meal, compassion, and support, all for just $6.85. For a shelter: Your gift of $19.03 For a food pantry: Your gift of $12.50

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

population make 72% of all gifts to nonprofit organizations. They make 72% of the gifts coming from individuals. And we’re going to look for factors that identify a good major gift prospect. You know, it’s nothing screams, I’m a major gift prospect, but they’re there. Who do you exercise with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. " Does that include cell phones? " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 22, 2021

On paper (pun intended) the appeal made sense: send a prospective donor, whose interest in the big-picture cause of the organization aligns with the specific mission, some crisp, professionally produced, compelling stats, along with an easy opportunity to engage financially AND a free gift. That sounds like a recipe for donor acquisition.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And with major gifts and sponsorships, that’s also about cultivation, but also building out who is going to do the cultivation? And I want you to also look at logic model sample and a SOAR analysis because that could really kind of help you think through some of the priorities in the planning exercises. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. The exercise is simple - take five minutes to eat a hershey's kiss and notice everything about the experience.

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