Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Other key lessons from sports coaches include these says Mayberry: Develop a burning desire to improve culture.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

End-of-year performance reviews are just around the corner and this week’s Mind the Gap column from McKinsey features tips on how to navigate feedback with Gen Z workers , both from the employer and employee perspectives. How do their efforts enhance client experience, expand organizational reach, and/or improve efficiencies and operations?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But the challenges we face and the issues we seek to address can change over time – from severely needed social services like food and shelter to rates of addiction and poverty to global crises of climate change and education. High-performing nonprofit teams are resilient, motivated and cared for. Concentrate on culture.

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

A successful nonprofit strategy is all about getting critical resource decisions right to achieve organizational goals. Among the most important questions to ask to avoid this strategic planning pitfall are: What resources—financial, human, and/or organizational—will we need to pursue our strategic priorities?

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority. Determining what technology skills your organization needs Skill requirements are not one-size-fits-all.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Hold an organizational meeting of the Board of Directors. . The initial organizational meeting of your Board of Directors will be incredibly productive. Establish your nonprofit’s values and the organizational approach to your work. . Develop an evaluation and performance model. . Lay the groundwork for success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Other key lessons from sports coaches include these says Mayberry: Develop a burning desire to improve culture.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

When your community experiences increased need, there is a higher demand on your services in several ways, including: Overwhelmed Staff. By making key changes in technology, processes, and culture, your organization can adopt a responsive philanthropy approach to adapt to increased community need. Find the Tools to Maintain Momentum.

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sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

The Importance of Organizational Culture in Risk Management As you update your internal controls to address any new risks, take into account your organizational culture. Plus, you have already performed and monitored the work. Insufficient data may have obscured the problem until it was too late.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

Note from Beth: I’m honored to be a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community , a group of people in the nonprofit sector who care deeply about high performance. Often, we think of “high performance” as something only for large organizations, but smaller nonprofits can apply the ideas too.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While Whole Whale offers support for a specific kind of digital fundraising , there is a wide world of fundraising services that these companies can offer. AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Other key lessons from sports coaches include these says Mayberry: Develop a burning desire to improve culture.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 30, 2019

Marcia Mintz, the CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix (BGCMP), defined a high-performance culture as, “When everybody at every level understands where their role fits into the organization and the plan to get where they want to go.”. Nonprofit organizations are mission-driven businesses in an industry of service.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

“Inclusive organizations create systems that encourage ongoing intellectual and stylistic disruptions of the status quo in service of an underlying organizational mission. Develop an organizational diversity and inclusion statement for staff and board.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. Limitations exist because PM has created tensions, instead of bridges, between funders and nonprofit service providers. To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2022

Consequently, nonprofits continue to have difficulties applying diversity initiatives which affect marginalized, underrepresented individuals’ outcomes, access to needed services, and trust. Research indicates progress on diversity is dependent on nonprofit boards, which impact nonprofit performance and policies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Perhaps we will never again see such simultaneous disruption to every aspect of business and personal life, but this is the perfect time to examine strengths and weaknesses specific to organizational resilience. Incorporating [resilience] qualities into an organizational system equips it to systematically adapt to disruptive challenges.

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Candid

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Professional fiscal sponsor services often include: HR, benefits, and payroll. Executive and organizational coaching Donation oversight. For instance, some focus on the performing arts or the environment, others restrict their work to certain geographies. Your organization should be a good cultural fit with your fiscal sponsor.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These revenue-generating businesses serve to provide unrestricted funding to the organization that sustains them and often expands organizational capacity to serve their client base. Funding is required to launch or refine the product/service and should fall outside of current organizational financing wherever possible.

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

healthcare, human services, community support) are particularly susceptible to burnout. This could include developmental opportunities, paid time off, fostering inclusive and non-toxic work cultures, encouraging work-life balance, hiring extra help when needed, having sabbatical or leave policies, or offering flexible work hours.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 29, 2021

So much is going on in the world outside of the realm of nonprofit board service. We should dust off those by-laws, pull out the board score card to self-evaluate our performance and bring in outside help to get our houses or in this case, our boards in order. . This season is ripe for conflict. It has been disheartening!

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. Nonprofits whose organizational cultures encourage outreach and relationship building are already laying the foundational groundwork of high-performing collaboration.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

While Whole Whale offers support for a specific kind of digital fundraising , there is a wide world of fundraising services that these companies can offer. AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Marketing research and performance – you’ll be able to segment and target your marketing tactics. Culture shift – getting company-wide adoption of anything new can be challenging. Read our blog on Creating a Data Culture for Your Association. Check out our blog on overcoming your fear of dirty data.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

When your community experiences increased need, there is a higher demand on your services in several ways, including: Overwhelmed Staff Nonprofit team members tend to wear many hats and carry immense stress even under normal conditions. Tech-supported reporting gives the team insights into real-time nonprofit performance.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The organizations that measure and demonstrate action and performance against their commitments can improve trust with their stakeholders and increase market share, while reducing the cost of customer acquisition, the cost of recruiting, and employee turnover. With no appreciable follow up performance, stakeholder trust took a hit.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Because of its broad scope and deep impact on both top line (productivity) and bottom line (efficiency) performance, the sales operations department has become a strategic and indispensable component of a mature sales organization, especially in the enterprise, SaaS and B2B space. . Performance. Performance Metrics Analyses.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Impact Management Services worked with Mobile Pathways , an early-stage nonprofit focused on providing legal information to migrants via mobile technology. Measuring impact and managing outcomes is at the core of the work performed by nonprofits, academia, foundations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) teams, and more. Field (i.e.,

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Feeding America. Anna Rathmann.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

So, when Mary K Winkler , one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out. Cultural Indicators.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Culture is an important factor for organizations in having a healthy and high performing workplace. The right culture doesn’t just make the workplace more fun – having a cohesive workplace culture can save a company money and make them more effective in their goals in the long term. The Vanderbloemen Group.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 16, 2019

Value members’ cultural fit and ability to collectively produce results. Strive to create a culture that is at once both hard and soft – simultaneously tough in driving for measurable results on a few highly visible targets and supportive of individuals to create an environment of collaboration, trust, and loyalty.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Get Everyone Aligned Around the Culture of Philanthropy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 9, 2019

Coleman Selden and Sowa state in ' Human Service Organizations Management Leadership & Governance' that studies examining turnover show that effective HR practices, from recruitment and onboarding practices to performance management and evaluation practices, all impact retention. Recruitment.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In fact, a study by Salesforce found the number one most valuable metric of success for service organizations is customer satisfaction. Use machine-learning algorithms to understand and track what is influencing donor satisfaction and performance and to detect specific events in the donor’s journey. Number two is revenue.

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