Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. This may sound risky, but if you have a culture of quality, backed by a process of quality, then you don’t need to rely on oversight or bureaucracy.”. Teams are engaged and proud of their work. All staff members are empowered to contribute ideas. Clarify Roles.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Social media and sound byte journalism is making it harder for associations to share balanced research, facts, and perspectives What are associations doing/should be doing to shore up trust in their industries? Declining trust and polarization is affecting national organizations’ ability to partner with their chapters.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. This sounds obvious, but it’s surprising how frequently choices are made for less objective reasons. Leverage ChatGPT to generate reports, articles, and newsletters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Is it statistically sound? You can also learn about how Candid plans to leverage AI to enhance data organization, streamline search processes, and facilitate intelligent funding connections. Very general and vague words can generate very vague responses and language. Is it grammatically correct? Is it accurate? Is it up to date?

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sounds pretty smooth, right? Make sure your donation page is ready to welcome the small screen, facilitating donations via mobile and enabling easy sharing of your page. Crafting a Donor-friendly Giving Page If you’ve ever experienced the warm-feeling of giving to a charity, chances are it was through a fundraising page.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 79

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I co-lead a workshop on digital transformation, co-facilitated a master class on digital fundraising campaigns, co-hosted a learning breakfast for scholarship participants, co-designed a Big Room session on Technology for Good, and in between attended some amazing sessions. Facilitator Guide: [link]. … Read More

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 72

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 72

Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2022

That sounds like it’s all about money. Think of yourself, instead, as a “ philanthropy facilitator.” Make it about philanthropy facilitation – easing the way for people to joyfully, lovingly and passionately enact their own values. Don’t think of yourself as a “fundraiser.” That makes it about love.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2024

Promoting existing tools for sound data collection, advocating for alignment, and facilitating the flow of data to inform giving and research will support Candid’s commitment to realizing a transparent and informed social sector that is efficient, effective, and equitable.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Now, you might be thinking: “This all sounds well and good, but how can we implement our own system, especially with budget constraints?” ” – That’s where Flipcause steps in!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 52

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 26, 2021

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Roles North Carolina University 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

The event’s technical host, MCI Canada , used a unique setup that facilitated being able to hear many more speakers, tracks, and sessions in two days than a traditional conference could allow. sound gloves (so very cool). Singer-songwriter Imogen Heap performs with her Mi.Mu “magic” sound gloves at the EB Awards.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Roles 52

Roles Collaboration North Carolina University 52

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2022

Consider using a trained facilitator for this kind of training to address these concerns. Yet, this is what can bring out better results when problem solving and making sound decisions. Be aware that discovering biases and discussing them can cause discomfort and anxiety.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

Though it sounded cynical and harsh, it also rang true. Takeaways and discussion questions conclude each section, providing a useful tool for facilitating dialogues for reflection and learning. A separate Facilitator’s toolkit is available to support this activity at your foundation. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Sounds ideal, right? The CRM you want should not only simplify report generation but also support automatic scheduling and feedback mechanisms, fostering a community among users and facilitating continuous improvement. “I Let’s find out how to achieve that level of reporting Zen consistently.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

Sounds like a dream? Nonprofits are beacons of hope and Flipcause is built to intensify and spotlight your radiant beacon, expanding your reach, facilitating supporter activities, and simplifying advocacy efforts. Well, it’s totally possible, and we’re here to walk that path with you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

A strong brand is important because it facilitates opportunities, resources and results. The brand strategy helps to define how the brand should look, sound and feel, according to the organization’s mission. An effective brand can be a positive influence on an organization’s assets (human and financial).

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Facilitate one-on-one relationships first. This might sound obvious, but if there’s a rift in your leadership core, there’s an inherent rift in your entire organization. The bottom line is, a great team, regardless of who’s on it, is only as good as its moving parts. Workout issues between meetings.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. While Jim and I explained clearly to Wild Idea proposers what they needed to do to submit their project for consideration before MuseumNext, we didn't give them enough support in actually facilitating their group brainstorming at the event. They sound obvious, but several took me years to figure out.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It sounds instantaneous—as if you could type a few commands and new software would magically turn your organization into a super-powered generator of member engagement and delight. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. We need another term for “digital transformation.” If only it were that simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. All of these work well with small groups and inside of organizations. In other words, how to scale reflective practice in age of connectedness?

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

Harold Grinspoon Foundation organizes many programs, including summer camp funding, facilitating end-of-life giving, and distributing over half a million educational books a month across 32 countries through the PJ Library. How would the many active programs and initiatives of the organization need to adjust to the new challenges?

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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. Sound proof the office.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2019

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 40

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team''s operating processes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team''s operating processes.

Roles 82

Roles Collaboration North Carolina University 82

Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Associations need technology that facilitates business with both individuals and organizations. Some vendors of AMS systems built on Salesforce might give you the option of not purchasing a full Salesforce sandbox, which could sound appealing. That’s why Salesforce developed the Person Accounts data model.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 40

The Storytelling Non-profit

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Help them understand the change their donation will facilitate and why it’s urgent. If you sound like a broken record in your mind, you’re likely on the right track. Your extremely good reason to care must connect to your theory of change. When editing, make sure you put your very best copy at the top. You don’t need to build up to it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as coach -- You provide support and guidance and you serve as a sounding board. You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration North Carolina Roles University 40