Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We can support the risk-taking of others by elevating them through using the power of our voice and the power of our choices. The key is to use our voices and choices to elevate others. Amplify the voices of others. The simple solution: Amplify the voices of others. Do they have an open-door policy only for some people?

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M+R

MARCH 9, 2023

I recognize what I’ve been given, and it is my job to uplift the voices of others and share my access and resources.” Chances are good that you’ve felt her influence in our work with clients and causes already (she’s more and more a part of client teams these days).

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Community engagement, a vital component of both collective and civic leadership, involves community members in decision-making and development initiatives, ensuring their voices are heard and respected, and fostering collaboration and collective action within communities.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

While WWF’s climate change work is ongoing and touches many policy areas, this blog post shares specific examples from a three-week campaign window in 2015. Identify your social media influencers: WWF used Attentive.ly With this in mind, WWF used social segmentation to send a targeted text message to their social influencers.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narratives have the power to liberate or oppress because they have the potential to influence the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, which in turn can shape institutional policies and practices. Narratives about issues can have impacts and implications for policy. It allows us to communicate with others and build connections.

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Achieve

JANUARY 3, 2018

Over the past year we have witnessed not only a change in administration and therefore policy, but there too has been a shift in the ways in which individuals engage in social issues and causes—many of which have been impacted by the new administration and associated policies. Why had their voices quieted?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2016

I didn't know how likely the petition was to have influence, but I knew that signing on was important to the people asking. I took the issue to the board, and we agreed that we need to develop some kind of advocacy policy to be able to answer these phone calls with confidence. Our museum has a growing advocacy component to our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Algorithmic Bias: Better Policy and Practice for Civil Society: This podcast about #datadiscrimination and algorithmic bias was hosted by Digital Impact, an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). Bots are also not limited to social media.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role. It is themed “Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms, and innovation.”

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Stronger Advocacy: There’s strength in numbers, and a strong membership base provides organizations with more voices to amplify their cause, advocate for policy changes, influence the community, and raise awareness for their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Conversationalist: Starts conversations with target audience, other influencers or peers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 21, 2018

A nonprofit not only needs to reflect its community through staffing, but genuinely hear and act upon diverse voices. The same study found that an increase in racial diversity, when coupled with diversity policies, practices and inclusion behaviors, affected governance practices positively. 32 Issue: 7, pp. 636-653, [link]. Sessler, B.,

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

A lot of the organizations we work with and others we see in the policy-issue, advocacy, "intellectual-commerce" realm, are interested in their work being more influential. Don't we all !). Here are some thoughts on how to use the web to go beyond just providing information, to being more influential.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. I’d like to hear from our other members, though, so they can speak without being influenced by your knowledge or experience.” Don’t influence him. Just be patient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on the age of automation and it implications for civil society. This will be help voice assistants like Alexa improve as well as software that automatically analyzes documents inside law firms and others organizations. Social Change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We Liz is passionate about using clear communication to influence positive social change. Just Recovery Gathering , April 9-11: Join 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. As the Obama administration ushers in a new era of foreign policy, this nation has an opportunity - an obligation - to aid our global neighbors in Darfur. Darfur Voices. GI-NET's Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Rather than being tied to status, they see leaders for their ability to be collaborative, creative, display high emotional intelligence, and bring together diverse groups of people and perspectives to influence change. In large part, this focuses on setting policies and creating structures to support and manage teams.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. Or even the networked influence from news coverage and stories from one group or city to the next. I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. I hope someday Mark Zuckerberg will return the favor,” said Soltani, echoing the frustration of many nonprofit leaders about Facebook’s pay-to-play policy. His take away: “Let the talent be themselves.” SMOP14 @TSFF.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tokenism: According to Merriam-Webster, tokenism is “The policy or practice of making only a symbolic effort.” Whenever possible, let their voice be heard. Rather than using your story simply to give your organization a platform, amplify the voice of the story subject. Whenever possible, let their voice be heard.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Focus on things that can have ripple effects, like influencing your work to adopt a new travel policy, helping your sport club organize carpooling, or taking part in local decision making. The parent voice carries acute moral and emotional weight. It’s important that kids see us acting for their future.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. With the development of an official “nonprofit sector” came the development of more rules, regulations and policies. This gave them greater voice in the government. From the late 1800s up until 1920, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

Why cover an event where an elected official and constituents have a calm conversation on public policy?) It was at the VFW Hall in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and other venues like it, that I truly learned how to influence legislators. Think in advance of how a policy might affect you, your family, your business, or your community.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2019

She was recently named one of the top 25 Nonprofit IT Influencers to Follow in 2019 by BizTech Magazine. Before joining Annie’s List, she served as the first Chief Equity Officer for the City of Atlanta, working with city leaders, researchers and community members to develop a policy agenda addressing structural drivers of inequality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” There are also governance implications with new expectations for transparency and new norms of accountability given the growing influence of rating intermediaries like Great Nonprofits and Charity Navigator. If you want to dig into more of this thinking, I suggest you get a copy of Lucy’s toolkits for nonprofit leaders.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. It also details new policies, such as a new donor management approach, priority service areas, and the organization’s business model. This plan is a living rough draft based on everyone’s ideas.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

These realities make it more evident that each nonprofit needs a unified voice, powerful enough to withstand the process of making policy. Once everyone is sending the same message, quantifying your voice by the number of actions advocates send as messages to the decision maker’s office is much easier. 3] Kingdon, J.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I think the most important part of designing a competition that leverages crowdsourcing is to strike a balance between too many voices, and too few. I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. Public voting process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Shireen did a fabulous job of bringing in their voices. They have a social media policy and handbook that provides the rule book for volunteers, staff, and affiliates to participate on social media channels effectively. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross. They do not view social media as fundraising strategy.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2009

Show your true voice, be personable, create content that people relate to. They helped explain Obama's 10 major policy positions by breaking them into Blueprint for Change videos on each one. to demonstrate the ultimate planned influence. Be authentic.? They posted about 2,000 short videos on YouTube throughout the campaign?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

With the passage of this law, it is also an opportune time to showcase a few online tools, techniques, and communications strategies that some pretty cool nonprofits (some of them our clients) are using to amplify the voice of the healthy kids movement. PreventObesity.net : This site was developed by my Forum One comrades.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Foundations face unique communications challenges—from amplifying the voices and work of their grantees, to advancing their overall mission and goals. Or do you want to serve as a cheerleader, giving grantees the ability to directly voice the work that you are supporting? Your media & influencer partnerships. Quick tip.

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M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s been a staple for partnerships and coalitions, influencing policy, expert positioning, building relationships with press, and responding to the news cycle. Here’s the thing about Twitter: It serves many different purposes for all kinds of organizations, individuals, and campaigns. We do not recommend focusing solely on Facebook.

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