Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the outdated model that worked well at one time—identifying a problem and creating a program designed to solve it—is giving way to new, muti-sector approaches to create public value.” Make data the language. It takes money and basic ground rules to drive the system toward doing it. Knock down barriers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. We can do better!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

They raise money by crafting documents that reflect the terms of those who give it. If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. At the level of language, there is not. If the funder calls it a benchmark, so will we.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Experiment with Journey Mapping A colorful visualization of the constituent experience, journey mapping is a model that helps you track how and when you engage with supporters and when and why they make the giving choices they do. The tagline, “Put your money where your mouth is” hit the right provocative note for their target audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It also integrates marketing principles and human behavior models into its machine-learning-based model. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories. Using all of this data, Quilt.AI Closing thoughts.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

In their research project “Exploring the Love Language of Fundraising,” Jen and Adrian are uncovering how often the nonprofit sector focuses on money within their messaging – “Your gift can” or “Thank you for your donation” – which establishes a transactional relationship with them. It’s about how we hear and nurture them.”

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

The GPT of ChatGPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a group of language models trained to generate human-like text developed by OpenAI. Having retention material ready to go will save your organization time and money. ChatGPT is a writing AI that was created to mimic human conversation.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 5, 2019

Movement, language, mannerisms—it’s crucial that these fundamentals are properly taught to avoid the potentially painstaking unlearning process during adolescence. There also seems to be a major misconception about where a new nonprofit’s money comes from. It’s much easier to learn something completely new than to unlearn an old habit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

PHP is one of many programming languages. This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Focus Fundraising consultants work side-by-side with nonprofit teams to strategize and execute plans to raise money. Orr Group applies analytical frameworks and ROI-based models developed in the for-profit world to help with nonprofit development. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language before the end of 2021?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The good thing is that the language about transformation is in the air in the Occupy movement. My housemate and friend Nichola Torbett's organization, Seminary of the Street , is deep in the Occupy trenches, talking a lot about spiritual transformation, particularly with Jesus as the model. . It's about changing the whole paradigm.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The good thing is that the language about transformation is in the air in the Occupy movement. My housemate and friend Nichola Torbett's organization, Seminary of the Street , is deep in the Occupy trenches, talking a lot about spiritual transformation, particularly with Jesus as the model. . It's about changing the whole paradigm.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Work in the nonprofit sector often gets clouded by stigmas and the notion that no one is supposed to spend any money. We get forced into focusing our first priority on how we’re spending (or not spending) money, rather than making a difference. Does low overhead mean high impact? Is the opposite true?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the age of monetizing social media through algorithms and paid advertising revenue models, getting two clicks per 100 followers is generous. Compared to other social networks, LinkedIn Ads are expensive and the site spends your money fast. List all languages spoken, honors and awards received, and publications.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

We’re here to talk about whether or not your fundraising staff is leaving money on the table. But hey, we all want to raise more money, and that’s what we’re here to talk about. We don’t want to leave money on the table. We want to replicate our model across the country. Don’t want that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. In June, with the help of Stevie Wonder , we got a treaty that did just that: the Treaty of Marrakesh.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. The result is a model for cross-sector partnerships that span the nonprofit, for-profit, and education sectors, and include the Numi Foundation , World Central Kitchen , and Eat. Food insecurity. Nutrition insecurity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

exception model works well here. As Bookshare, we believe we can find money to extend the availability of our collection globally to the poor. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare. We simply act to ensure the person who needs an accessible book can get it.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2021

Tammy threw the traditional partnership model out like it was day-old takeout. “Rather than forcing a trade-off between making money and doing good, shared value encourages business innovations that increase profits by contributing to social progress.”

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

We also use some terms like “fiat” (Government-backed money), “getting rugged” (ripped off by a project), “mooning” (rapidly increasing in value) and others along the way, sorry for the jargon but don’t worry WAGMI (we’re all going to make it). Globally-minded giving – it’s a small world after all . Different Terminology .

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

A photography/narrative story where the author visits forgotten cities of America and meets the people who decided to stay even when the factories shut down and the money left. The book is about how our society only values one way of living–get a good education and make a lot of money–then you’ll be happy. .

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

Understanding the new up-and-coming generation is a little like learning a new language—and I’m not just talking about deciphering their slang. In a nutshell, to win the hearts (and money) of millennials, we need to help them understand our cause. And we need to do so in their language. Tell stories. Post pictures.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. Engagement Model. posted by Rudy Frank Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 28, 2011

I suggest being similarly prepared with a model grant submission. Regardless, having a detailed submission (the Center can provide information about the ins and outs of grantwriting) that you can pull language and information from will be extremely helpful in order to make such a tight deadline. Click here. )

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

They also see how you present the array as a point of communication from you, much like how body language communicates in real life.”. When your guess is below that, you may leave money on the table; ask more and the models show you will lower response rate. Suggesting monthly giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. Modeling the norm.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In that year, I raised enough money to completely cover my salary, but I didn’t actually grow our audiences. In the end, our organization for this model better for our visitors and our needs. We didn’t give ourselves time to create a collective language. I ran scores and scores of classes, like purse-making and shoe-decorating.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

But, on the other side, as Phillip Thompson said in our panel last week, our business model sets up problems, as we are always trapped by the amount of money we can raise. Dashboards and ROI are as much part of our workplace language as community engagement and light-sensitivity. This transformation has brought some good.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

You may have given money to some of these groups after receiving a request in the mail. Maybe you’re not seeing a lot of return for the time and money you invest in mailing an appeal, so you decide that sending out letters is too old-fashioned to work anymore. Use “you” language. The letter doesn’t actually ask for money.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Outdated or invalid addresses, deceased supporters, missing phone numbers, and more can cost your organization time and money by sending out appeals for donations to people who can't receive them. " and includes modeling statistical analysis. Language has power, so wield it carefully. Champions at All Levels.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language. This 6-step GRANTS Writing Formula can help!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2016

Sometimes this means providing participating fundraisers with stock language to use in emails, sample social media posts, reminders to send asks to friends and family and more. Ganz’s model is popular in activism and politics, but it also has applications for peer-to-peer fundraising. Although M.S.

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

was to help them leverage and monetize assets they already owned and showcase their brands in a new context while creating a simple model that could become self-funding.” Tone—The advice above also applies to tone and language. “I realized that associations already had the content and the audience. My goal with WorkerBee.TV

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

When listeners called, they were able to choose their language. Sullivan said that this dual language ability increased the complexity of the Freedom Fone interface quite a bit. . Sullivan said he is interested in exploring different revenue models for Freedom Fone, including a subscription model.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They made the decision to pivot to a different kind of event: an online brunch fundraiser based on the peer-to-peer model called A Toast to AuSM – and it’s one of our top crowdfunding and peer-to-peer website examples from 2021. They did this by focusing all their efforts online. MDLT Virtual Hikeathon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Sometimes the recognition is transparent and transactional, like when the money is in the form of a sponsorship from a company’s marketing budget.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. Use evocative language, engage the senses, engage your emotions. Write something like "It took awhile to raise the money, but once we did, we had even more than we needed." For me, writing a vision was empowering, exciting, and useful.

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