Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Leadership position and leadership team are outdated terms from a model that no longer works. It is not a role. Don’t get us wrong.

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Leadership Kansas Authoring Chapter 85

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. 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. consistent, structural challenges.

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Government Research Fund Survey 79

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Anyone who joins the Board now has clearly defined roles and willingly makes a personal donation in addition to actively fundraising.". Fundamentally overhauling a business model can be risky and expensive. As part of a.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Ground work in credible research, case studies, and literature that already exists in the field. Model Behavior.

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Model Impact Business Case Study 55

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

However, here are some potential use cases to help you visualize the role a data warehouse could play in your organization’s operations: Identify specific audience segments for marketing purposes. Ensure each team member understands their role and responsibilities in the data warehousing project. Research top providers.

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position. Development professionals employ six practices to be successful in their role. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals.

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 72

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gartner’s research focuses on how technology can help restore and strengthen an organization’s financial health. Review current staff as well as future hires to see where they can play strategic roles that complement, not juggle, tech solutions. Invest Wisely in Agile Technology for Good Nonprofit Stewardship.

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Digital Gartner Nonprofit Fund 76

Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Ideas Model API Language 52

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Foundation leaders need to understand how grantmaking practices affect nonprofit organizations and structure grantmaking practices in ways that best support nonprofit organizations. Leaders and managers of nonprofit grantmaking foundations play a significant role in setting grantmaking practices that best serve nonprofit organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Leadership position and leadership team are outdated terms from a model that no longer works. It is not a role. Don’t get us wrong.

Benefit 52

Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. When starting a nonprofit , research whether you’re overlapping too much with other organizations’ missions. Try to gain the technological edge.

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Nonprofit Advice Skills Studies 95

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry.

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Evaluation Program Attitude Instruction 52

Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. Research famous architects, what pops up? . That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains. Like this article? Get another!

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Social Model Government Philanthropy 85

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Leadership position and leadership team are outdated terms from a model that no longer works. It is not a role. Don’t get us wrong.

Benefit 52

Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. What role(s) might a funder play in initiating and implementing a peer learning group? It should be clear to all involved that the learning process will be exploratory and emergent rather than tightly structured and directive. What role would you play in starting and running a peer learning group?

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Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 97

Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

Some of the findings in this year’s survey included the importance of having leaders with digital experience, the connection between well-structured teams and outcomes, the challenges in restructuring digital teams, and the gap between the value organizations place on supporter engagement and how they are prioritizing managing and tracking it.

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Team Digital Structure United Kingdom 26

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There are a few accepted models for content strategy. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team. The Structure quadrant answers how content will be organized to be findable, categorized, and personalized. That’s not a reason to cut your losses, though.

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Education Content Strategy Texas 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models. Also, larger organizations might have silo issues, with walls between alumni outreach and development functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I was lucky enough to have a number of exchanges with them about self-directed and peer learning models in the nonprofit sector as part of their research process and are referenced in the report. This does not necessarily have to be a full-time position – it is more of a role and has to be a leadership one.

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Learning Remix Teach Hype 110

Gyrus

APRIL 7, 2016

Despite regular reiteration of all state and federal compliance guidelines and audits, organizations fail to be compliant with the latest regulations and research indicates that compliance lawsuits have increased tremendously over the past few years. A recent example is of Barclays Capital Inc., who was charged by The U.S.

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Training Train Measure Evaluation 59

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Earlier this year, a group of informal science researchers, led by Rick Bonney of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, published an extremely useful report on public participation in science research (PPSR). In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2018

Systematic evaluation can positively impact the organization by creating more structure, providing results for adaptability, increasing volunteer retention and improving staff-volunteer relationships. Next, follow the if this, then that solution models to pinpoint the leading cause for those issues within your volunteer program.

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Evaluation Volunteer Program Impact 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. In smaller organizations, responsibilities for both roles could fall on the shoulders of the same person.

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Offline Campaign Channel Cancer 44

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

These finance models rely upon nonprofits to deliver their programs, yet there is a dearth of guidance for nonprofit leaders to understand the opportunities – and risks – they represent. If there is no lead, a nonprofit should be ready to add capacity or shift existing roles to compensate for new obligations.

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So there is Pew Research. But I have been studying these types of engagements and research on community for years, and it is predominantly a religious organization that leads the way. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . Let’s move on.

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People Community Video Podcast 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements with others and have invited guest blog posts on this topic. Media and narrative play significant roles in creating and building these platforms. Screencapture from charity:water.

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Culture Build Change Media 84

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The good news is that research shows that a lack of leadership development opportunities can be addressed cost-effectively, regardless of size, by developing leaders already on the payroll. Organizations can start small, perhaps focusing on a few emerging leaders, and build structured leadership development systems over time.

Leadership 40

Leadership Develop Retention Phoenix 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I Since I use an idea dashboard to develop my content — it includes links, general structure for the blog post, format, etc. What role do your metrics play in your editorial decision-making?

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Content Measure Organization Strategy 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

It covers different models for purpose, structure, style, value creation, design, leadership, and change management. Identify and work with key nodes or influencers within the network who can be role models for using the technology. Close down alternative or back-door communication channels.

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Social Media Network Media Social 50

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

The question then turns to this: how can nonprofits structure their governance based on their organizational and lifecycle needs? Research has shown that organizational competence, or lack thereof, is linked to board of director performance (Brown & Iverson, 2004, p. 378) (Brown, 2005, p. 330) (Bradshaw, 2009, p. 1996, 370-73).

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Structure Government Phase Director 75

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

As a fundraising analytics consultant, I see a variety of development program structures and fundraising strategies. The results of a predictive modeling and/or wealth screening endeavor can improve programs and strategies of all types – Well… that is if you smartly utilize the results of your data.

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Analytics Gift Strategy Fundraising 20

Forum One

APRIL 30, 2010

" The piece was an interview with Columbia Professor of Management William Pietersen summarizing the research in his publication " Strategic Learning: How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage."

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Internet Process Strategy Learning 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

” Professional networking gone wrong includes a mismanagement of structure, relationships, and behavior. But what really matters is structure: Core connections must bridge smaller, more-diverse kinds of groups and cross hierarchical, organizational, functional, and geographic lines. It is time to tune your network.

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Network Professional Build Work 50

Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

For many, that involves a combination of income sources that, together, make up their funding model. A funding model is defined as the methodical and institutionalized approach to bring in revenue to support an organization’s core programs and initiatives. Major Donors.

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