Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For the event organizer who hosts regular live events, like a networking event, this presents a problem. The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

As I was writing today’s post on how to support the next generation of leaders based on great advice from The Emerging Leaders Playbook , co-authored by Beth Kanter, I can’t but help but reflect on the leadership, passion, and out of the box thinker that Jake Brewer was in the nonprofit and civic democracy space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m working in Dubai this week and have lined up some guest posts from some colleagues. Daniel Ben-Horin from TechSoup Global wrote a thought provoking post over at the SSIR about generational differences in nonprofits when it comes to trying to scale social change strategies using social technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. We had to understand the problem and the challenge we were working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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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. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Generative Social-Impact Network. Decision-making in generative social impact networks is distributed throughout members. They act as either individuals or on behalf of organizations.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For the event organizer who hosts regular live events, like a networking event, this presents a problem. The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process.

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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. Transparency.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

This empowers your team to take ownership of their work, contribute better ideas, and generate successful content—saving time for other tasks while ensuring that your content is useful, audience-centric, and goal-driven. . Improving your calls-to-action helps you better serve your audience by facilitating engagement.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

The problem with viewing fundraising as primarily about money – still a largely taboo subject in our society – is it creates a tendency is to avoid the subject as much as possible. Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. to raise $1).

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Here are just some of the roles and responsibilities that need to be delegated to members of the auction committee: Generating leads for item procurement. TIP: Greater Giving clients can automatically generate an online catalog from entered packages, and transfer them to the Online Bidding feature without any additional data entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

.&# On the other hand, we could all go back to our respective homes and work towards that in a chaotic, uncoordinated, and distributed way. What emerged as the idea that TechSoup Global, using a networked mindset could facilitate this to happen. Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

What if those of us trying to solve the problem of the poor didn’t distance ourselves from them? In addition, they’ve changed the physical structure of LCW so that there are fewer desks for the staff to stand or sit behind. Sense of reciprocity: Strive to allow and facilitate give/get relationships.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Empower people to expand their skill sets based on their individual needs, rather than on a prescribed syllabus Encourage people to confront and solve problems together, working collaboratively on the organization’s. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. shared mission. At the core of Beta are the three “C”s , says Ardi.

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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. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Empower people to expand their skill sets based on their individual needs, rather than on a prescribed syllabus Encourage people to confront and solve problems together, working collaboratively on the organization’s. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. shared mission. At the core of Beta are the three “C”s , says Ardi.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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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. Generate customized reports based on your nonprofit’s current donor engagement priorities. Customized donor reports.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

Empower people to expand their skill sets based on their individual needs, rather than on a prescribed syllabus Encourage people to confront and solve problems together, working collaboratively on the organization’s. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. shared mission. At the core of Beta are the three “C”s , says Ardi.

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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. Generally, nonprofits partner with consulting firms when they face a clear need or challenge. Simplified audit preparation and generation, ideal for grant management. Why They Stand Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. David points over to colleague Michele Martin's post " How to Facilitate Conversation Between Comments on Our Blogs? Something to think about when we look at whether we've generated commenting.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. C3-ers generated great and useful ideas, but they were functionally an assembly of creative individuals, efficiently giving us input. We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Let’s explore the common problems faced by faith-based organizations like yours, and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs under a single DMS. The problem: Managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. Change agent who's been around many blocks.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Let’s explore the common problems faced by nonprofits like yours and how you can better serve your mission by consolidating all of your needs into a single platform. The problem: managing a patchwork of disconnected tools You may be juggling an array of tools and systems to manage your daily operations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The problem is that many nonprofits approach social media with over blown expectations, don’t realize them, and then throw their hands up and quit. Participant-Generated Instructional Content. It is a fantastic laboratory to take some of the ideas in the book and put in them into a practice.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Research / @SSIReview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. They can create the change makers.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Are their server systems fully redundant from the incoming Internet connections all the way through to their back up generators? While technology is its own science, the art and craft of successful implementation often depends on expert facilitation and guidance. Have they located offices and server facilities away from flood plains?

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

Marketing Cloud – Create Engaging Student Journeys It has never been more important to reach students, parents, alumni, and donors where they are, and there’s never been a more versatile product to facilitate that need than Marketing Cloud. Read More ».

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Themed “From Grassroots to Government: Empowering Social Change to Address Wicked Problems,” the conference will cover a range of social issues, including housing and urban development, mental health crises, and civil rights. Get there early for the free 2024 Junior Scholar Workshop, happening June 4-6.

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