Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

His approach to business was often out-of-the-box, however, his business lessons and leadership lessons from the course of his life and career and invaluable. As soon as you make a profit, find a way to give back. Become a student of your craft. In a bottom-up company, the leader learns from frontline people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Chuck had been suggesting for quite a while that I come to Boulder both to speak to Naropa students and connect with the vibrant local tech scene. The majority of Naropa students in the class were working on their own social enterprise concepts. So, we go way back in our shared commitment to growing the social enterprise movement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Purpose is an organization’s aspirational reason for being, beyond profits alone. CVS is using purpose and a strong sense of its own corporate social responsibility as a “north star” to guide its business strategy — which it brings to life through a cross-functional approach. It’s why an organization matters to people.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

ABC Fundraising recommends selling popcorn during your product fundraiser since you can earn up to 70% profit. At the merchandise table, your nonprofit’s volunteers may inform potential buyers that proceeds from each sale will go toward building a new playground to keep students healthy and active. Branded merchandise.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. What happens, however, with technology applications that could provide great social benefit but that won’t generate big profits? The typical for-profit incubator has a funnel of startup teams.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This year they had 23 participants from 20 different countries and in 2010 they will train 40 students to , “run their own social projects” The program that is run with the help of a few staff and catalysts, has a two month internship also built into it.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 8, 2023

A quick text, and your supporters have done their part in bringing your non-profit’s goals to life. Memorials or Tribute Events Those attending to remember or celebrate someone’s life can easily donate to a cause the individual cared about via text.

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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. Illustrate your nonprofit in action by telling the story of one dog whose adoption made a real impact in the life of a special needs child or the dog that rescued an elderly man from loneliness.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Providing a donation with the date, amount, organization name, and tax identification number clearly identifiable, you make the donor’s life easier. If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Everyone wants their tax preparation to go smoothly.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Attracting and engaging volunteers is both an art and a science—a nuanced dance of understanding, inspiring, and retaining individuals driven by purpose rather than profit. They range from retirees looking to give back, to busy professionals seeking purpose, and to young students wanting to make a difference.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Reach out to Asian American student groups on college campuses as well. The Art of Celebration: Showcasing AAPI Cultural Richness Incorporating cultural performances and art displays is a great way to bring the essence of AAPI heritage to life at your event. Community organizers and non-profit leaders.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Learn more about the origins of the heritage month, ways you can celebrate in your own life, and nonprofits you can support to make a difference in AAPI communities. Community festivals, government-sponsored activities, and educational activities for students are all essential parts of this month-long celebration.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

The outdoors became our main source of activity and entertainment, reminding us that we’re surrounded by life even in isolation. Because We Love Where We Live allows donors to play a vital role in the fundraising efforts that provide environmental education to thousands of students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Translation: Taxi Driver - We are not in a hurry, please drive slow, we want to live a long life. I tweeted about visiting a wild life and the NGO offered a great tip about not missing the sun bear via Twitter. Founder Eve Blossom has created a business that merges design, social change within a for-profit business framework.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As for-profit companies provide increasingly personalized interactions, your members expect the same in more areas of their lives – including their experience with your association. Watch the on-demand webinar Members for Life: Fueling the Journey from Student to Retiree.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

AFS-USA arranges student exchanges around the world. minute ‘video highlight’ which is a very simple but effective collection of comments from a dozen exchange students, some graphics and is backed with an inspiring soundtrack. That’s it.”. Video is a very powerful arrow in the content marketer’s quiver. Their homepage includes a 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. And they are already blowing us away.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. However, my experience was an exception to the rule that internships increasingly prove: free labor contributes to the growing inequities of the non-profit labor system. It''s probably a path you had to navigate too. I have taken a firm stand.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Its Connecting To Life program (Projeto Conectando com a Vida in Portuguese) provides computer education classes to at-risk youth so they can get well-paid information technology jobs. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 10, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Life happens. Obviously, there are many reasons that people choose the not-for-profit route and pay is rarely the motivating factor. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. Nonprofit Finance Fund. Welcome to Research Friday !

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

New wealth creation (these days, “innovation”) has to be the driving force of every business – a relentless pursuit of a greater good that is fueled by the creation of profits. Leadership is not focused on the very hard work of being a student of change, and feels accomplishment in mastering control, top-down directives and general order.

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Achieve

MAY 28, 2014

I have had countless conversations with students and peers who want nothing more than to start changing people’s lives. We knew how to crochet, and we came to understand how this generic hobby could actually create life-changing jobs for people in Uganda. As CEO and co-founder of the non-profit lifestyle brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It celebrates the natural beauty of the area while educating the community about a green life style. She told the story of “ Poop_Strong ” who describes himself in his Twitter profile as “31 year-old sustainability PhD student fighting Stage IV colon cancer.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Water Is Life, an organization working to provide clean water to people around the world, used a strategy to get around Venmo’s “no ads” rule. There are other examples of people using Venmo’s simplicity and accessibility to turn a quick profit, like this college student on College Gameday earlier this fall.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Given the many ways a fundraising plan can make your life easier, it’s hard to understand why so many organizations don’t have them. Often an event brings in the cost plus a few thousand dollars profit. For example, a new project provides grocery store gift cards to college students coping with food insecurity. All of them!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

A life-long activist, she had volunteered with the Progressive Student Alliance, Amnesty International and Sierra Club. He has also been fortunate enough to work and consult for several other amazing non-profits including Greenpeace, GLAAD, the Cathedral of Hope, Witness for Peace and the Alliance for Justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. What a photo find!!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Its Connecting To Life program (Projeto Conectando com a Vida in Portuguese) provides computer education classes to at-risk youth so they can get well-paid information technology jobs. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2018

Nimrod Elmish from Cardboard Technologies proved that sustainability, social impact, and profitability go hand in hand , creating a new local industry that breathes new life into recycled products. What do they mean by “new life”? Instead, it is talking to friends, sharing at home, or speaking at school.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 21, 2013

Back when I was in school, we always used to call the work world “real life.” ” After school, we would enter “real life,” get a job, get a car, do what grown ups did. But what’s even more cool is that I continue to learn new things every day in this “real life.” ” Shocker!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Michaela is now working as the Online Manager for a nonprofit focused on International Student programs , called World Learning and had attended SXSW where she felt that there needed to be more nonprofit panels. last January (after nearly 2 years abroad), I set about really learning the non-profit tech industry. conference like SXSW?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. 826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. And they are already blowing us away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Engaging with alumni networks is about connecting before alumni become alumni, while they are still students. In the for-profit world, it is called the sales funnel. She describes the progression of the relationship from stranger to becoming a life-long champion and supporter for your organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. We expect the federal, state, and local governments to play a role in educating our children, helping communities rebuild after natural disasters, and improving our collective quality of life. Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

even if we can't yet decide whether to hyphenate non-profit, or even split it into two words, or call it something else entirely. However, a student this summer pointed out another meaning of the term: in psychiatry , a neologism is a unique term coined and used by someone with a mental illness, evidence of a thought disorder.

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