Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the outdated model that worked well at one time—identifying a problem and creating a program designed to solve it—is giving way to new, muti-sector approaches to create public value.” Eggers & Kettl : Innovation takes funding, regulating, and doing. What are the three elements of innovation?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

The model includes outreach to connect clients with services, providing immediate services to address current symptoms of the client’s circumstances, and providing wraparound services to help the client build skills to be self-sufficient and navigate the services available to them.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

This comes from the “tin cup” model of fundraising, where we come from a place of begging. At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters. emergency response; prevention; early intervention; research; seed funding, and so forth).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 13, 2019

For the model to work, some of the $3.5 trillion the US spends on health care each year needs to move to funding the underfunded social service agencies and nonprofits that support social needs. Kaiser Permanente has invested its own funds in the model, holding an equity stake in Unite Us. municipalities? Karen Kahn.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Nonprofit Finance Fund. Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

For example, if you are raising funds for a much-needed van and someone donates a van that meets your organization’s needs, you can close that campaign and focus your efforts elsewhere. It may be older, smaller, a different model, and less-than-perfect. Cool, right? But, it’s yours!

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Your programs may also rev up during the holidays, providing meals and gifts, keeping homeless people warm, or preparing for an influx of post-holiday pets needing homes. Start by modeling the behavior you want to see. The post The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising appeared first on Get Fully Funded. That’s you!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the age of monetizing social media through algorithms and paid advertising revenue models, getting two clicks per 100 followers is generous. For example, the International Fund for Animal Welfare shared the good news that zero rhinos were poached in 2020. And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a nonprofit organization operates health clinics inside public schools, the Advisory Board might be made up of pediatricians, family physicians, and nurses, who could advise the Governing Board on how the model could best operate to meet families’ needs. They could advise the organization based on their personal experiences.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

As a global organization, Habitat has developed a model. I will continue to work with Habitat organizations, as well as other nonprofits, to increase organizational and funding capacity through my consulting work, so while this is a farewell to my staff position, I look forward to remaining connected to the mission I care so deeply about."

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our first program used private funds to pay restaurants to make meals for food-insecure San Franciscans who we reached through existing networks of care built by long-serving community-based organizations. We made a “playbook” outlining our systems and platforms and shared it so that our program model could be duplicated in other areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children. And that’s why I’m supporting Giving Tuesday. What about you?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

At the same time, nonprofits should be aware of the challenges and limitations to this emergent form of funding. The Nonprofit Finance Fund defines social impact investments as “investments that intend to generate positive social or environmental impact along with financial return.”

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

It is also developing a scalable model and toolkit for other communities to do the same work. Mission Assets Fund is scaling up its unique Lending Circles program, a social loan program that enables low-income people who are outside the banking system to lend and borrow with each other with interest-free social loans.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. You can even sell concessions like popcorn and drinks for extra funds and have them delivered to homes before the movie starts. What’s a great way to host a fun night while also raising some much-needed funds?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Helping the women receiving the funds. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. What is it about? And that’s hard to ignore.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

There are also many homeless and disabled veterans in the area. The garden's organic produce will be sold at local farmers' markets to fund project activities. She told me, "With our homeless vet situation, and so many disabled vets coming back, I just asked myself: How can I make a dent in this situation?"

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. For the past six months, I’ve been collaborating with Third Plateau Social Impact on the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. The Environmental Defense Fund has used the game for an internal training for 300 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. We have the wrong mental model for change. He showed a series of photos from the Common Ground campaign for homeless to get homes – before and after photos. He pointed out that it was story of hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. We have the wrong mental model for change. He showed a series of photos from the Common Ground campaign for homeless to get homes – before and after photos. How great it is to be in a room with everyone.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

Instead of raising for funds during an event, the purpose of A Gift for Teaching’s peer-to-peer campaign is to ask their supporters to conduct their own DIY fundraisers in order to supply children with the supplies they need to succeed in school. Their supporters raise funds throughout the year. Why we love this event.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. We have the wrong mental model for change. He showed a series of photos from the Common Ground campaign for homeless to get homes - before and after photos. How great it is to be in a room with everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Blandford Nature Center : Maria is raising funds for the organization in a very innovate (and tough) way. model, as described on their website. Bridge Communities 88.6%* of every $1 goes directly to work on 6 levels to help transition families from homelessness to complete self-sufficiency in about two years. $25

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

Department of Housing and Urban Development dropped the bombshell of defunding all but one nonprofit transitional housing provider for homeless families in Maricopa County, Arizona, the local nonprofit, private and government organizations began to scramble (Polletta, 2016). Polletta, M. 2016, May 12). Simo, G., & & Bies, A.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So the first thing that I want to know, this is a chat question, Steven, you can tell me how people respond, what are your biggest funding needs now versus pre-COVID?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Aqubanc will give away two replica models courtesy of Diecasm (www.diecasm.com). Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Be persuasive – you’ll get to keep whatever funds they donate.) We will be raffling off an iPod Touch at the booth. Aqubanc in booth 58. VisionLink, Inc.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Aqubanc will give away two replica models courtesy of Diecasm (www.diecasm.com). Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Be persuasive – you’ll get to keep whatever funds they donate.) We will be raffling off an iPod Touch at the booth. Aqubanc in booth 58. VisionLink, Inc.

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

Lack of access to appropriate mental health care carries serious consequences, including increased likelihood of hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide. To fund their innovative treatment programs, their website features several creative fundraising campaigns. s homeless population. Community of Hope.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good. If you don’t know Funding for Good, their principal, Mandy Pearce, has been on our webinar series many, many times over the last few years, recommended Marie as her top expert. You may be saying, “What do donors want to fund?”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2022

Rockefeller’s and Carnegie’s philanthropy continues to remain the main model for funding nonprofits, yet with increasing diversity (over the next two decades minorities will comprise more than half the population) these models based on white dominant norms will become increasingly irrelevant. Donor-centric fundraising….

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

appeared first on Get Fully Funded. There’s plenty you can do to improve your return rate and find donors who want to help through direct mail. The post 6 Reasons Why People Won’t Give to Your Fundraising Appeal Letter (and what to do about it!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

The project will create a model for compassionate redevelopment that can be replicated in hundreds if not thousands of communities. This model lets communities create new affordable housing in beautiful neighborhoods, and uses the strength of the market to help pay for it.”. Project Animal Worldwide , Ellen La Torre.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So today, I want to help you understand all of these phases, including the ones that don’t rely on writing skills, and to gain some really concrete tips, tricks, and pitfalls to avoid for each phase so you can be more confident in your grants game plan and more effective at securing funds. . I love that everyone loves my slides.

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