Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message. The great news is you can use your body language to intentionally project confidence. This helps you exude positive energy and confidence. We know our donors want to feel special.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2019

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven't forgotten about them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 23, 2019

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven't forgotten about them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Allen and Mitchell Kusy , is a very compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven't forgotten about them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2016

Allen and Mitchell Kusy , is a very compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven't forgotten about them.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Knowing where and how to find monthly donors for your nonprofit is a key skill in successful fundraising, and one you’ll certainly want to get good at! This technique helped me grow my first monthly giving program very quickly, adding a couple of dozen donors in just a few weeks. More on that in a moment.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re just starting on your fundraising journey or a seasoned fundraising professional, these free resources will help you fill up your team’s digital library! Free nonprofit resources offer your organization knowledge, strategic planning, and valuable data to help you accomplish your goals more efficiently.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven''t forgotten about them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2014

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven''t forgotten about them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

Using best practices and tips based on research can help you improve. But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. And the latter is not about gathering data – it is about making sense of it and using it to continually improve.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2015

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven't forgotten about them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2014

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven''t forgotten about them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

Content curation can provide visibility, but before you can reap results you have identify the opportunity — a campaign, announcement of a new program, or release of policy information – to curate news and information around your topic. Moreover, adding context is another curation skill. and others help you do that.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2018

Calvert : The good news is that the behaviors of leadership don't require any special knowledge, skills, systems or permissions. They don't interfere with activity standards and, in fact, they will help sellers meet quotas. These behaviors are about the interpersonal relationships sellers form with their buyers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2015

One the one hand, it helps them to keep going in face of difficult challenges. She then launched a coaching practice to help other social change makers avoid her mistake. She wrote the post for herself, to process what she was seeing in the news and also reinforce the idea that is is okay to take care of herself.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. We created this guide to help you build just that. Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Goals + objectives.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Governing well is one of the most profound ways to help our communities. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Nonprofit Learning Lab / Newport News, VA / $85. 14th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 25 - 27.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 14, 2011

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. When you have no new news, letting your team know that you have nothing to report lets the team know you haven't forgotten about them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

It’s simple and will help you stand above at least half of the Events out there. Given the design restrictions on Page design, having a solid content strategy can get results and help differentiate your nonprofit. No coding ability, no design skills. This helps you focus when writing and makes planning ahead easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

In this era of overwhelming inundation of data and messages, an organization’s relationships help it achieve results. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Register here. Engage with the purpose of leading to collective action.”

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Nonprofit Learning Lab / Newport News, VA / $85. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders.

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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. How can I help? I want the best for you, this is a little bit more interpersonal skills, of course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. Some tools and techniques follow below. News Feeds. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. Some tools and techniques follow below. News Feeds. Ice Rocket.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Most people who really love and support a museum want it to be loved and well-used by the larger community, and many of these folks are thrilled by techniques that engage new people with the organization. Yes and no.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. Stories are windows into new worlds. It goes a long way in helping readers get to know Rani and consider donating to help kids like her.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Most people who really love and support a museum want it to be loved and well-used by the larger community, and many of these folks are thrilled by techniques that engage new people with the organization. Yes and no.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. The evaluation tools and techniques you choose will depend in large part on the message, the method of delivery, and the outcome that you want to measure. Industry news and upcoming events. Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But here’s the good news: Through nominal study, practice, and preparation, those who are devoted to promoting the noble missions of their nonprofits can — and do — become effective fundraisers. A best practice is allowing first-time or reluctant fundraisers to accompany skilled board members and staff when making asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. We know that success in social media depends on deep engagement as Charlene Li's research has uncovered.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Share The Bad News Of course its much easier to share good news with your employees, but its perhaps even more important to share the bad news. If revenue is down, or if youve lost a large customer, or if a new competitor has entered the market, let your team know. Dont keep your team in the dark.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. As author David Grossman says, "good internal communication gets the message out, but great internal communication helps employees connect the dots between overarching business strategy and their role.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. Posted by Eric Jacobson at 8:01 PM Labels: Leadership Books , Leadership Skills , Management , Motivating Employees 1 comments: davidburkus said.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

(You can register and download the issue here for free and listen to the webinar recording here ) The main idea is that good curation skills can build staff expertise and avoid the pain of information overload. Curation is all about helping your audience dive in and make sense of a specific topic, issue, event or news story.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

Hold onto that thought as we dive into a practical roadmap that helps your nonprofit not only survive but thrive in a changing environment. It’s an essential ingredient, helping your nonprofit to transform into a flexible, well-rounded entity, capable of making spectacular differences in the community you serve.

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