Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Break down internal silos. And if you are new in your governmental role, be sure to spend extra time reading Appendix A, the 100-day action plan for bridgebuilding in your new government job. Make conversations transparent. Build capabilities around skills rather than authority. Eggers D onald F.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

Recruiting staff from BIPOC peer networks and job boards, and historically black colleges and universities. By actively taking part in addressing racial leadership gaps within their organizations, nonprofits can intentionally make space for positive outcomes to flourish both internally and within the communities they serve.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

” For example, here are some campaign goals that we answered internally for a neighborhood soup kitchen whose mission is to provide warm meals and job training to people who are experiencing homelessness. “What goals will we achieve by raising $50,000 for the neighborhood soup kitchen?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. I like point 5 about interns. I trained her staff on how to blog.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Have a brilliant idea for how to end homelessness, train job seekers , or help small businesses go green? Want to start your own nonprofit or socially responsible small business? Got talent; need money, technology, and mentorship?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? Your job is to use a bit of small talk to put the potential donor at ease. Who: Who will benefit from the donation you are requesting?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are even a few international reports. Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are even a few international reports. Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. One option might be to focus on solving internal bottlenecks between fundraising and other departments. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. If you find yourself unable to fill a job role, you’ll need to rely on volunteer help. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. Increase awareness on relevant issues.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2013

I once interviewed for a job with an organization in Atlanta that sold coupon booklets door-to-door to support a children’s wheelchair basketball league. Both your internal and external stakeholders should be focusing on your admin costs. The answer was 7%. Administrative costs”, on the other hand, are how you exist as a nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I once interviewed for a job with an organization in Atlanta that sold coupon booklets door-to-door to support a children’s wheelchair basketball league. Both your internal and external stakeholders should be focusing on your admin costs. The answer was 7%. Administrative costs, on the other hand, are how you exist as a nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Chip Conley was the keynote speaker at last week’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp and one thing that he said that has been stuck in my head is: “ You can have a job, a career, or calling “ The latter, a calling, is when you can tap into an internal motivation that fuels and inspires you. It resonated.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The traditional method of receiving tax-deductible donations is to file for 501(c) status with the Internal Revenue Service, an application for 501(c)(3) status designed for a religious, charitable, or educational purpose. Helms founded Goodwill in 1902, described it as an “industrial program as well as a social service enterprise.”

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

With the support of volunteers, we are able to effectively engage with individuals experiencing homelessness in D.C. The VolunteerHub team did a great job of coaching us through the set-up process and creating a solution that really works for our specific needs and goals.” Volunteers are crucial to the work we do at Miriam’s Kitchen.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This past spring, we launched a program with the Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP), an inspiring organization that has served San Francisco for 30 years using the pivotal moment of pregnancy and parenthood as an opportunity to partner with families and break the cycle of childhood poverty. Jenais Zarlin.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

I’m proud of our partnerships with the Homeless Service Center, Second Harvest Food Bank, UCSC, the Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations that are at the heart of the Santa Cruz identity. I talked about this with international museum friends at AAM and they had mixed responses—some bought the Santa Cruz niche concept, others didn’t.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. Even for NTEN, which is extremely web-heavy in its mission, raw visit numbers will mean nothing related to how well it is doing its job. Allan assumes two points here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

apps at ground level and assessing which tools are right for each job. Beyond that, my job as ICT Champion is to start the debate rolling and showcase new technologies. Internally, we use a wiki to manage many projects and communicate across the organisation. link] Plan International???support Analyse risk of web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Our programs bond our collaborators by closely co-creating programs with community organizations which strengthens their individual internal connections and their relationship to the MAH.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Even though we had access to far more information than the ordinary donor or volunteer, we found it difficult to find out exactly which nonprofits were doing a good job of helping those in need. and walked up and down the streets, asking people which nonprofits had been out there helping them. Or after school program? Or elderly center?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

At the end of the day, most donors just want to create meaningful change, and your job is to invite them into a larger story and provide an easy way to be a force for good! You can see here that Miriam’s House uses the donor based brandscript to center the supporter as the hero by saying “you can help end the cycle of homelessness.”

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

The best part of his job is getting to showcase Blackbaud’s amazing clients and the valuable work they do. . They feed the hungry, provide medicine for the sick, shelter the homeless, educate our youth, protect the environment, prevent animal cruelty, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Read the case study.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children''s job prospects as adults. Many of them don''t have the clothes required to go to a job interview. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums. The Taylor Center is a testbed for the St.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. When we help a member of a family get a job, get ready for career readiness, or overcome substance abuse or addictions, then what is the ripple effect of the service that was provided? That is impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

One of the ones I am continuing to support is Women for Women International. I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. Our conversation began with Zainab describing how Women for Women International serves women survivors of war.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children's job prospects as adults. Many of them don't have the clothes required to go to a job interview. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums. The Taylor Center is a testbed for the St.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

There have been studies that have shown that there’s not this sort of 9:00 to 5:00 job right now, especially when people working virtually, your office is where you live. And make sure you have your key attachments, your resumes, bios, job descriptions, budgets, and also what your concept could be for potential funding. .

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Internally-focused thinking. Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? They do a better job, individually and collectively, at tackling the big issue at hand. Why the heck would we be foolish enough to do it all ourselves? Plus, it's expensive.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And again, you know, Steven did a fantastic and overly generous job of introducing us. Again, it’s about that audience, especially for new donor acquisition when you don’t have a lot of internal data points on those people, and how can you look at people as a group and try to determine how they’re going to respond.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Here’s the truth: When you ASK, you’re more likely to receive than if you don’t ask, even if you don’t do a great job of making the ask. Donors often respond to internal triggers that aren’t clear even to them. Psychologists have studied the dynamics of giving for years and identified some key internal motivators for giving.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

They could be specific programs or services, like job training or health education. And they can also be settings, things like schools or homeless shelters. . And I mean internal approval. Keywords are things like overarching topics that describe your work, like health or food.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

I think they did a great job of trying to give people 10 actions, but a lot of it was "Change your light bulb," or "Buy a Prius." If he wants to do a political campaign, he's going to say, "For the next 40 days, I want you to feed all of the homeless in Orange County." If somebody needs childcare, who takes care of them?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language. Save the Children’s website does an amazing job of handling complex tasks while staying organized and easy-to-use.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These challenges are faced by organizations globally, organizations of all size and scale and across focus areas – from education to equity; homelessness to environment; immigration to arts. Many of these challenges tend to be thought of as resulting from external forces, even if they manifest internally (e.g.,

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