Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our goal is to be a source of inspiration and to offer the tools that make for outstanding careers and associations. Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association, will share how APA used these techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. Sponsored by Multiview.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. How you proceed will vary depending on your organization’s goals and resources. Review your strategic plan, business goals, and data to identify where automation could make an impact. This is Chat’s contribution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Additionally, you might face the prospect of rallying stakeholders and staff towards a common vision, goal, and outcome. Confidence to initiate engagement with your staff and stakeholders and define roles and goals. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a major gift fundraiser who wants advice on whether it’s better to ask for too little or too much. . Especially when your goal is a major gift, and you’re approaching a current donor. — In the dark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Rituals can boost our personal productivity because they allow us to focus and reach our goals without distraction. My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the 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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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Use these strategies to hook your recruitment email recipients immediately: Pose a question. Use automated personalization tools. Create urgency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

All day long your goals are hijacked. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? As an email subscriber, each week you’ll get a new “micro” essay about 1 principle or technique. Very Good Copy. Subscribe here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days. The foundations learned several things that helped them surpass their goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In “ I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. ” I use it for annual planning and goal setting. Here they are: Rituals.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

We sat down with Diane Remin, the Founder and President of MajorDonors.com , to discuss techniques on making an ask and how major gift work has transitioned online as a result of the pandemic. Technique 1: Ask Donor For A Specific Amount of Money. Technique 2: The Clueless Close. The second technique is the clueless close.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In “ I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. If you have more than 10 people in a meeting, having everyone introduce themselves verbally and answer an icebreaker question can take up a lot of time and can be tedious.

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

The goal of the first meeting is to open the relationship. The focus is getting to know the donor through a series of discovery questions that you’ll ask with the donor’s permission, of course. With the right set of donor discovery questions, you will be able to determine the donor’s needs. One-Word Questions ?—?or

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Information is everything that is coming at us. However, to have data requires intention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2022

A CRM strategy includes a combination of clearly defined strategies connected to specific goals that are delivered by the most effective tools available. The initial process of defining the organizational strategies and goals that the CRM will help deliver is essential. Defining Your CRM Objectives and Goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Define your project and the project goals. These will likely include: Goals – The S.M.A.R.T. Why is this goal important? How will we objectively know we have accomplished the goal? How will we reach this goal? Relevant – How is this goal consistent with our mission, values, and strategic plan?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ask if anyone has any questions. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes. You can view a couple of visual idea generation and sharing techniques in a video by Jack Elkins (The idea “T” and the “Story Board”).

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. But as any fundraiser worth their salt will tell you – planning is something you need to do, without question.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. In this session, we dive into the details of crafting a modern brand voice rooted in your nonprofit’s values and goals. So, join us for some brand magic.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2013

In this article we are going to discuss a challenge that every researcher is confronted with when creating a survey : How to design the right question list for their questionnaire? As my fifth grade teacher used to say, “It is always hard to get the right answers when you are asking the wrong questions.”

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The process can highlight inequities and barriers previously unrecognized and pose so many questions. Setting out a roadmap requires key stakeholders to help reveal the questions that need to be asked. Funding: program budgets, tuition goals, recruitment goals (associated with grant-funding), identifying gaps in support for technology.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” We are all responsible for defining the goals, doing the work required, and being part of the solution. Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Our goal is to expand our shelter so that we can help more women and children who need an emergency place to stay. A donation from you will help us meet this goal and continue to help families in crisis. Using the techniques of storytelling for nonprofits can make a huge difference in the results of your fundraising.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

There’s nothing wrong with this kind of modeling, but the extent of its use is unclear, and the lack of clarity makes some users question the data they’re seeing. The learning curve of GA4 means that to use it at all, organizations really do need to be more intentional about their goals, strategies, and tactics.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Ask donors questions about themselves, their passions, and their preferences, and savor the opportunity to get to know them better. You can use similar questions to start conversations with donors over the phone or during face-to-face meetings, too. One person can field questions while the other answers them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Let’s take a look at some fundraising ideas – the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. My colleague Amy Bills has some additional questions you should ask yourself when determining how to simplify your donation form. 1) Go Mobile, Now! Tweet It] !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2019

If you’ve paid any attention to the fundraising landscape within higher education over the past few years, you’ve seen a deluge of announcements touting massive campaign goals. This is the question all advancement and stewardship professionals should be asking. Bigger than” campaigns necessitate a reliance on mega-gifts.

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