Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

The 10 Disciplines teach you how they can lay a foundation that creates space in your busy life for you to consistently and optimally perform and achieve your inner peace. “I Yet I have come to learn that there are disciplines and a practical approach to accomplish significant life success, as well,” says Gino. It is in your DNA.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2023

Impact numbers are a great way to demonstrate the positive changes your organization has provided. But, to the outside world, impact numbers can be challenging to conceptualize. That’s why we recommend contextualizing your impact numbers with a powerful story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Frank’s story exemplifies the life-changing power of access to information and reading. With the Skoll Foundation’s support, your gift will have far more impact on our users around the world. I could request books not already in the collection, and sometimes my wish would be granted. I began a reading binge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

Posting without a mindfulness of the trending topics and conversations can cause organizations to appear insensitive and tone-deaf. However, we were mindful of the best practices that suggest brands and organizations not post about every issue or trending event so to avoid piggybacking via hollow, void content. Watch Video.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To this day, he acknowledges that one nonprofit’s handout probably saved his life. This will keep your nonprofit on your supporters’ minds. . The post How To Communicate Your Mission’s Impact Through The Power Of Handouts appeared first on Bloomerang. My father smoked a box or two a day. To his credit, he did just that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

But when you’re lean on resources and human power, just producing blog posts and updating your website feels like a miracle, never mind SEO or a content strategy. Or, you can optimize existing content you have with your keywords in mind. Highlight authentic stories: Share real-life examples of the impact your nonprofit has made.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

By Rosie Powers , a Strategist at Mission Minded —a branding firm that works exclusively with nonprofits, foundations, and independent schools. As summer fades into fall, end-of-year fundraising season is top-of-mind for nonprofits. Do: Everyone in our community deserves to have a full, thriving life.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Industry giants are investing millions to tap the large data sets that give them competitive insight into their customers’ hearts and minds. Use Data to Reach People If you’re looking for a real-life example of how data can improve decision-making and by extension the bottom line, I’ll share one group’s impactful experience.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

Impact: A Step-by-Step Plan to Create the World You Want to Live In by Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts. Find out how to tap into your unique skills to create social change and make a positive impact in today’s world. Find motivation in the real-life stories of women’s incredible ability to transform the lives of others.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Boulder and seeing the winter beauty of the place right after a big snowfall as well as of connecting with many people excited about social impact. The iconic Flatirons overlooking Boulder, Colorado My first stop was Prof. Laura DeLuca’s class on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. You could also try posing a question, like “True or false: $50 can save a life.”. Make it personal.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

Deliver creative and impactful solutions by evaluating the emotional impact of strategies. Data-driven empathy is about humanizing data: bringing personal insights to life in a way that allows you to know your customer beyond the incomplete information that populates traditional systems of records. Solis’ advice sounds complex.

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2022

Join Meico Marquette Whitlock, founder and CEO of Mindful Techie, for an excerpt from an interactive training that will inspire you with mindful approaches for creating sustained balance in your life. Impact of the pandemic on wellbeing. 5 Ways Grantmakers Create Work- and Tech-Life Balance. Setting boundaries.

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Double the Donation

JANUARY 17, 2022

Strive to learn and grow professionally while pursuing the best ways to drive impact at the company. Fun, community, and impact are the words I’d use to describe working at Double the Donation. Double the Donation is dedicated, inclusive, and impactful. and in doing so, getting to make an impact on their philanthropy.”.

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Blue Fox

JUNE 18, 2023

We focus on spreadsheets and financial management platforms and forget about the enormous impact our clients (nonprofit and social enterprises) make in their communities and the world. We forget that our work enables our clients to maximize their impact. Water is life. (We are accountants, after all.) Queue more goosebumps.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. ENA’s commitment to bring culture to life is even expressed in the organization’s physical environment. Adding to the impact, multiple disruptive social and cultural events have characterized the formative working years for younger generations.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit mission statement is how you communicate your organization’s impact to supporters, clients, and the community at large. Mission statements are typically short and to the point, briefly communicating the nature of the organization’s work, impact , goals, and values. Why does your nonprofit exist?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 27, 2024

With all of this in mind, even if it has never been a targeted approach at your organization, delving deeper into the trove of research we have about Women’s Philanthropy could be an incredible tool for your fundraising success. Change organizational culture to impact the bottom line Know thyself.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

But given the realities of today’s 24/7 world, you’re grappling with how to keep up, make a meaningful impact, and live a fulfilling life with so many things competing for your limited time, attention, and energy. It took me nearly coming face-to-face with a life-threatening health crisis to have this realization.

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See3

APRIL 9, 2024

These personas were developed into print materials — including a deck of cards, posters and a flip book — which all help put Make-A-Wish’s audience top of mind for their communications staff. When you think of Make-A-Wish, what’s the image that comes to mind? Push your organization to start telling new stories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

BoardSite’s features are designed specifically with nonprofits in mind. 5 Productivity Challenges for Board Members Nonprofit boards face a variety of challenges that impact their overall productivity. 5 Productivity Challenges for Board Members Nonprofit boards face a variety of challenges that impact their overall productivity.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The stress of the last year and a half has impacted everyone in different ways, and we’ve seen heightened fatigue among fundraising and nonprofit professionals. Practice Mindfulness. Mindfulness is simply being fully present and engaged in the moment. Has technology or social media had a negative impact on your mental health?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2022

Meico Marquette Whitlock, founder of The Mindful Techie , shares tools and strategies on how to regain control and relieve the stressors that face us. Topics covered in this episode: Major impacts of the pandemic on wellbeing. 5 Ways Grantmakers Create Work- and Tech-Life Balance. How values have changed.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2021

If that’s the case for you, you may have held yourself back from opportunities that would have positively impacted your life in many ways. . It means you shrink yourself to become a background player in your own life by convincing yourself that what you have to offer isn’t really that important. . Playing small.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 26, 2022

I ran into him again recently, and after the quick hug and how are you, I said, “Last week at work, we did an activity where we were asked to think about a mentor who was there for us at a pivotal moment in our lives, and you were the first person who came to mind. I’m reminded of a feel-good quote from the feel-good show, Ted Lasso.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Nonprofit storytelling lets donors and volunteers know that they are making an impact and making life better for real people. Was there a measurable impact? Emotional impact is where the rubber meets the road and causes people to reach for their wallet. Did her donation of time or money help someone?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

Here are four strategies your nonprofit should keep in mind when using Instagram for fundraising: 1. These posts provide both an emotional connection for the audience and a material demonstration of the impact the nonprofit’s work is having. The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Strategies for Impact without Burnout, with Aliza Sherman. Each of the 56 cards offers an idea or prompt for a way to make space in your life and work, reduce stress, and get into the creative zone.

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good   by Ann Mei Chang | ( Audiobook also available). If expanding your managerial and leadership skillset and taking care of your team are top of mind, consider reading these books to help you make good on this New Year’s resolution in 2023. .

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2022

Nonprofit interactions with supporters will need to be tailored according to their stage of life, intent, and preferences for communication. The technology is simple, and the impact of just a handful of recurring donations made, tracked, and nurtured online can mean sustainable income for years ahead without requiring additional resources.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This is called transformational giving because it transforms the donor’s life as well as the lives of those you’re serving. Here’s what the letter says in case you can’t read it: “What does it mean when we say you’ve changed a life? You have truly changed his life. It tells the story of one life being saved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By Scot Chisholm , CEO and Co-founder of Classy ––a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Without further ado, here are the top five trends we see impacting the nonprofit fundraising space in 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

How small changes in individual mindset and tiny habits can help your nonprofit, association or membership organization make a big, positive and sustainable impact. Embrace Mindfulness. Mary Cahalane: Your Work or a Life. Embrace Mindfulness: Beth Kanter A Simple Way for Nonprofits To Embrace Mindfulness at Work.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This includes everything from a nonprofit’s mission to work-life balance to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI). Enhanced community impact. When team members have challenges in their personal and professional lives, it can impact how committed they are to their work. Unhealthy work-life balance.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2021

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that it’s important to recognize when others are having a very different life experience than I am. This often makes the greatest impact, especially as resources are limited and the ability to work in the affected region impacts income for many.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

They’re the heart that pumps life into your cause and the soul that fuels your mission. Personal stories and heartfelt messages can do what numbers alone cannot – they can touch hearts and change minds. Let’s use data not as a cold calculator of efforts but as a warm guide towards more personalized, impactful action.

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