Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

So, what did these resilient role models have in common? They are highly effective mentors and coaches. They are motivated to help others learn, grow, improve their performance, and advance their careers. They help to create a work environment of psychological safety.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Of the 50 studies we reviewed just one started with the question – “ What skills, capacities are needed to help us achieve our mission? If organizations are focused on those types of measurable results then why aren’t investments in organizations focused on helping groups achieve the durable results they define?

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Nimble AMS

JULY 19, 2022

Is your association staff satisfied in their current roles? You’ll learn if they are satisfied in their current role and what steps your organization can take to improve the situation. What perks could help support you professionally? . Online survey: An online survey is one of the most successful survey models.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Treat volunteers and the roles asked of them with respect and importance. Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. Volunteers want to know their uniqueness can be used to further the mission. Be organized. Team building. Communication.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

And local Boys & Girls Clubs helped open the door to opportunities young people might not have otherwise, offering career training, skill building, positive mentors, and pathways to a great future. The pandemic was a reminder of just how important the relationships are between our Club mentors and the kids they serve.

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 2, 2023

When talking to staff about setting volunteers up for success, consider sharing these six building blocks to success: Strategic Roles – Is the position well thought out and appropriately designed? Thorough Screening & Thoughtful Placement – What is the role that staff members play in screening?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your board can do much more than approve budgetary plans and make high-level decisions about your nonprofit’s direction; in fact, board members can play a substantial role in every aspect of your organization. Involving your board members in nonprofit strategic planning can help.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Clarify roles and responsibilities. Development officers should be very clear and unapologetic about that role, especially when establishing relationships with donors. Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

As we continue to grow organically and through acquisitions, our philanthropy team supports employees with the opportunity to convene, advocate, and organize like-minded employees into pursuing interests, causes, or endeavors that range from giving back through fundraising and volunteering, to career development and mentoring. .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. However, while mentoring and running educational programs, Veronika realized that she was very empowered and rewarded by the progress among the youth she engaged with. " Challenges for BITS. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The sister, the aunt, the friend, the mentor. You all might have heard something about Robin’s dedication to helping people with disabilities that affect reading. Our crowd sourced model couldn't scale to meet this need. We thought the publishers might help. The shining bright spot in our day. And much, much more.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. However, while mentoring and running educational programs, Veronika realized that she was very empowered and rewarded by the progress among the youth she engaged with. " Challenges for BITS. spanhidden.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

What’s even better is looking behind and seeing you’ve left a path to help others, or coming to the aid of someone who needs help on their personal journey up ahead. You can mentor or teach a class with Tech Forward. You can review resumes, do mock interviews, or be a referral to job seekers through GEMs in Tech.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Team-oriented work can help workers form interpersonal relationships, which can boost overall satisfaction. Each role has specific responsibilities, and training helps set a foundation for each worker’s confidence. Leaders can incentivize participation by providing free meals to mentors and mentees. Leadership style.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Volunteers help nonprofits accomplish their mission. Provide mentors. Try using a younger adult who will be a more natural role model. Plain and simple. In most cases, without the hard work and dedication of volunteers, our nonprofits would not be able to function. Show your appreciation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

First, it helps with staff retention rates. When staff are happy and feel good with not only the work they are doing, but know that they are appreciated and are shown that their work matters, the likelihood of them sticking around in their role is much higher. Second, better results for the organization as whole.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

They are learning the ways different generations adapt and grow in the workplace and how to build an environment that helps the organization succeed. Organizations are beginning to restructure their staff into a model that allows leaders to be more involved with everyday events, rather than the hierarchical, stand-off approach.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The company is committed to motivating young girls to build STEM skills that will help them become leaders of tomorrow. The Girls4Tech programs are organized by regional coordinators and they are the ones who encourage employees to serve as role models and mentors, teaching the foundations of payments technology in fun, engaging ways.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

This work is part of its mission to close the opportunity gap and help skilled immigrants reach their full economic potential in the U.S. Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. at their full potential.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

In 2012, I'm trying to grow the good habit of doing these four things every day, and I've been using my Happy Reminder Board to help me. If you want help growing your blogging or creative habits, let me know! By the time my birthday came around, I felt great! I love working with folks one-on-one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. A model of generosity. Dan believed that “just a little financial help and encouragement” could facilitate our ability to do extraordinary things with our lives.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. To achieve that, sales operations people help streamline process to speed up the sales cycle and enable sellers to close more deals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. Efficiency.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2012

Be a role model and a mentor. Individual team members can’t have goals dictated to them; instead help the team develop their own goals. Either way, I hope you get something good from these nuggets! What I learned from EntreLeadership: If you’re a Leader, act like it! Behave with integrity.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2012

It is committed to matching mentors with Canada’s youth in. mentors, participants, and donors in the loop – and to ensure clear. " Because BBBSC functions as a federated model, mapping technology to the. " McAuley consulted with individual agencies to help them assess their needs. than 120 agencies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

To do this effectively, the CEO and executive team need to define future leadership requirements, identify potential internal candidates, provide appropriate stretch assignments, offer mentorship, provide formal trainings, and assess performance to help grow their abilities. Most of this learning takes place within the organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

As a foundation, we do more than just write a check; through our community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships, we help nonprofit organizations find new revenue sources to become more self-sustaining. Whether the divides are social, economic, political or cultural, it is often technology that can help overcome these divides.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. One week later, I saw some of the kids already coming into our office to be interviewed so they could be matched to a life-changing mentor.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2012

Be a role model and a mentor. Individual team members can’t have goals dictated to them; instead help the team develop their own goals. Either way, I hope you get something good from these nuggets! What I learned from EntreLeadership: If you’re a Leader, act like it! Behave with integrity.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. He’s now one of my mentors, advisors, and dear friends. How can I help?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

So, let me help you set yourself up for success from the get-go. Talk to your Board and your active volunteers to find the right people to help you plan for success. Plan to sell tables as well as (or instead of) individual tickets to encourage supporters to help get people to attend. I don’t want that to happen to you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2006

Britt Bravo and I have the pleasure of being the blogging mentors this week on the Young Caucasus Women Project. The young women were given the same assignment and part of our tasks as Mentors was read and comment on their work. It has been a delightful experience and it's also helped me expand my world music collection.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

We were especially thrilled to learn that one of TechSoup's nonprofit members, Year Up , was spotlighted as a model for employment and technology training. He explained Year Up's role pretty succinctly: "We feel that we are able to make a fairly effective bridge to corporate America," Jeff said. The Power of a Year.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

In my role as a consultant, these are four core qualities that I’ve observed. Trust isn’t just about modeling good behavior or making people like you. Set Goals and Expectations A defined set of values helps teams to live up to cultural and behavioral norms. Smart leaders take an approach that is outward-facing and altruistic.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Community ownership of software is in itself consonant with the missions of many nonprofit organizations, whose role is in strengthening community. Open source software is also playing an increasing role in fueling the rapidly growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) and on-demand applications space. and licensing models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

When you intentionally build your professional network in the right way, you create a circle of individuals who are all rooting for your success and happy to help you. The people in your inner circle should also model positive behaviors, because if those around you are enthusiastic, authentic, and generous, you will be, too.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011.

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