Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. Storytelling is a skill.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Packed with uplifting personal stories, action steps and writing exercises, you’ll learn how to be accountable for developing your character, integrity, and commitment to reaching your goals. Why writing your success story in reverse is the best approach. Why writing your success story in reverse is the best approach.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Knowing that your food service operation meets the highest standards for cleanliness, or that you source your foods from local providers as much as possible helps your volunteer tell your story to their friends, family, and work colleagues.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Stories like these sound almost like magic, but they represent a lot of hard work! Consider the following questions. Do you have an appropriate question in mind?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

This guide covers the following tips and steps to help you run a successful silent auction: What is a silent auction? You can hand out information sheets, play inspirational videos, and invite live speakers to share their stories with attendees. Why should your nonprofit host a silent auction? Build an auction website or webpage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. So while we admire the wonders and success of others in philanthropy, we could have a look at our own culture and we might find a longer and more impactful history of philanthropy in our own society.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer."

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So leaning on that background, as well as my more recent decade in nonprofit technology, I offer the following interview questions that an interviewee can ask of a hiring organization, to determine whether a given group is where you should place a career bet. The Seven Questions. Do you have a documented succession plan?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2019

T his book, S even Disciplines Of A Leader , published in 2015, teaches leaders how to help their employees, team, and organization achieve maximum effectiveness. Authored by Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton , it’s a high-readable book, packed with stories and takeaway exercises. Motivate people to perform. Make difficult decisions.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 25, 2015

So why are some board members more successful at that than others? Guest blogger Gail Perry believes that any board member can be that critical agent of change with the right training and support, especially with respect to opening doors for his or her board. It has to be their OWN PERSONAL STORY of why they care. Here’s How!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Leave time for questions at the end of the session.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Last month brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

We’ve been trained in our society that it’s not polite to talk about money. Why Successful Leaders Frame Culture As a Management System , Jason Korman, Gapingvoid Culture Design Group. Program staff must be willing to share stories about how donor dollars make an impact. And that definitely includes all your staff.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. ” I love this topic.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Create a setting where people can ask questions and start discussions on the topic. Even after going through training themselves, your leadership probably isn’t qualified to teach the rest of the staff. Add a DEI training element to your staff onboarding process. Call out areas where the organization could do better.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Depending on the platform, you can even include photos or videos to tell your story. Take your training online. A comprehensive and well-planned volunteer training program helps familiarize volunteers with your mission, further connecting them to your cause and encouraging them to continue supporting it.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

After all, our mission was all about teaching. Yet across the table was an educational leader who denied that teaching could have any impact. Most training in the field was from professional associations like. and they were based more on people passing experience and random successes on to each other than any kind of science.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Also, by asking more questions you’ll help break down barriers, resolve challenges, encourage collaboration, and imagine new ways of doing things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. While high scores made CEO feel good, they wisely questioned whether it was realistic for them to be knocking it out of the park with every participant, and sought to get to the bottom of it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2015

Paul Smith Paul Smith's book, Lead with a Story , is one of the top 10 books I recommend every leader should read. In his book, Paul demonstrates how storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between mediocre results and phenomenal success. Never apologize for or ask permission to tell a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. DoSomething.Org: A Data-Driven Nonprofit In Action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 23, 2008

I'm teaching my first webinar for a client in a couple weeks. I've been doing some research on how to present a successful webinar, and thought I'd share what I've learned. NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup host webinars that will answer many of your burning nonprofit and technology questions! What To Cover When You Teach A Webinar?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) to create the resiliency you need to combat stress.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. To start off, ask these questions about your peer-to-peer campaign: Will this be a purely virtual, in-person, or hybrid event ? Staff Assignments.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

Fauzia Burke is the Founder and President of FSB Associates , and because she's marketed leadership books for 20 years, she was a natural for me to ask her the following questions about: trends in leadership books the leadership books that excite her the most why books in print are still relevant But, first a little more about Burke: 1.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

In particular, peer-to-peer fundraising has found great success when it comes to pivoting to virtual, as its engagements already happen primarily online. To ensure that this stays virtual, consider having a dedicated web page or microsite to host all the information and even post additional stories about the memorialized subject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points. We will be discussing these questions: What are some successful examples of nonprofits incorporating a mobile/social integrated strategy?

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. I spent about 5 minutes to write the “appeal” for Fundwriter and here is what it wrote for me… Beautiful communication leads to successful fundraising Dawn Sherman’s eyes were starting to glaze over.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, help your board members tell a story. You can even take a portion of a board meeting to go around the table and have your board practice sharing their fundraising story. They Need More Training Most new board members don’t have fundraising experience. The solution to this problem is simple, even if it isn’t easy.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

She was telling me a harrowing story of escape from a concentration camp. As demonstrated by the fact that, at a point where she was still in danger in the story, I thought I had to cut the call short to join a staff meeting. She passed away; I never learned the end of the story. I felt so much sympathy! I feel your pain.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We’ve got an expert on here over the next hour or so, and we’ll try to answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 Eastern hour here. You can also send in your questions on Twitter. We want to hear your questions and we want to see your comments. That’s kind of a part of my story. I just know it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. This can include the history of the organization, testimonials, ways to access important documents or files held by the nonprofit, stories of impact, personalized swag, and a welcome letter, or more. Welcome packet.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But most importantly, feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. She’s got an awesome YouTube channel where she does a lot of free trainings as well.

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