Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Although the book is authored by an award-winning financial advisor and primarily written for professionals in the financial services industry, this book is a must read for any leader who wants to create a nurturing heart culture that hinges on the human-centric values the next generation of employees hold in high regard. Compassion.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

For this reason, intermediaries can play a valuable role in facilitating these needs between the recipients and the originating funders. I was [previously] executive director of a nonprofit, and we served as an intermediary,” report co-author and CEP Vice President of Research Elisha Smith Arrillaga told The NonProfit Times. “We

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

Are the good times for nonprofit fundraisers, if not back, at least on the horizon? A plurality (44%) indicated they met their revenue goals for the year. During boom times, fundraisers (as do most marketers) are more likely to increase attention on acquisition efforts and reduce their focus on retaining donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Additionally, you might face the prospect of rallying stakeholders and staff towards a common vision, goal, and outcome. Confidence to initiate engagement with your staff and stakeholders and define roles and goals. Building a website can be costly and time-consuming. Next would be technical and design requirements.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

To kick off 2023, we asked our partners, what are some new habits nonprofit practitioners should build with their donors, volunteers, and other supporters to help them meet their long-term organizational goals? If you have the capacity, take the time to extend the same level of gratitude to all of your donors. Here’s what they said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

At the same time, nonprofits saw the largest trust decline of any American institution in 2023. While building this community takes time, it will ensure you always have a full pipeline of people interested in engaging with your cause. Ready to meet (and exceed) your 2024 fundraising goals? Educate and inform your audience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2023

“Too often company leaders view middle managers in a negative light as expendable employees who can slow down productivity and overall strategy,” explain the book’s authors and McKinsey partners Bill Schaninger , Bryan Hancock , and Emily Field. Build their organization’s knowledge and realign it with shifts from digital disruption.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. It allows you to get in touch with the accumulated wisdom and talents you have gained over time through your lived experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By Annisa Wanat , an independent consultant who works to strengthen the capacity of mission-driven organizations to achieve their goals more strategically by providing customized solutions in leadership, management, and communications. Each of these roles has one thing in common – documents. 2) Strengthen Institutional Memory.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 12, 2024

As the year winds down, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on your nonprofit’s marketing and communications goals while also identifying what you’d like to accomplish over the next few months and in the new year. Think about your target audience and analyze where they’re spending their time on social media.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s Time to Ask These Hard Questions to Your LMS Vendor GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The constant disruption of the business landscape has entailed organizations’ restructuring the way they work. Workforce roles are changing, as are the skills needed to perform these jobs. Gap analysis capabilities become important here.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s Time to Ask These Hard Questions to Your LMS Vendor GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The constant disruption of the business landscape has entailed organizations’ restructuring the way they work. Workforce roles are changing, as are the skills needed to perform these jobs. Gap analysis capabilities become important here.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s Time to Ask These Hard Questions to Your LMS Vendor Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems The constant disruption of the business landscape has entailed organizations’ restructuring the way they work. Workforce roles are changing, as are the skills needed to perform these jobs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When Everyone Leads , by Ed O’Malley and Julia Fabris McBride , presents a revolutionary approach to leadership; not based on position or authority, but an activity that anybody can undertake by learning to spot opportunities for improvement and taking the initiative to engage others. “It Authority is necessary. It is not a role.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

“As workplaces around the world face the challenges of an increasingly remote workforce perhaps forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic, it has never been more important to measure and expand wellbeing in organizations,” explain the book authors Jim Clifton and Jim Harter. Use community volunteering as employee socializing time.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

For communicators who would rather write sentences than algorithms, finding the phrases that will viralize your posts seems like a New York Times word game gone wrong. I definitely see AI playing a role in that space. Keyword research—Find relevant keywords and track their performance over time. Oh, those pesky keywords.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

They can help the organization set and achieve goals. What Nonprofit Leadership Really Is By definition, a leader is someone in a position of authority with the responsibility to guide a group. They’re responsible for planning, organizing, and directing a group so that goals are reached in a timely fashion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

As a partner to thousands of nonprofits, Classy spends a lot of time learning about what makes each of them successful. A successful nonprofit dedicates time early on to master the details. They set aside time daily to prepare themselves with actions such as: Learning about new tools to enhance their campaigns.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 27, 2024

In the English language, we use the word “mind” all the time. TIP: Think about this the next time you’re tempted to deliver a standard “elevator pitch.” I looked up the definition, and it means willingness and liberality in giving away one’s money, time, etc.; The end goal of money is a one-time transaction.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

But many Advisory Boards sit idle, with members not knowing their role and organizations not knowing what to do with the Board they created. Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility.

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Greater Giving

JULY 25, 2024

Gold Medal Fundraising: How to Create a World-Class Fundraising Event Just as athletes train rigorously for peak performance, nonprofits must meticulously plan months ahead of time to execute world-class fundraising events. Set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals. What do you hope to achieve?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

In their new book, Real-Time Leadership , leadership coaches David Noble and Carol Kauffman teach leaders how to use their unique MOVE framework to help leaders adjust their reflexive reactions and optimize their responses to any situation – including unexpected and complex leadership challenges. Now, the world needs more real time leaders.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Knowledge, however, is socially constructed and located specifically in place and time. We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Q and A with Jesse Sostrin author of Beyond the Job Description Question : What does the title of your book mean and what’s the truth about what employers really expect that is never written in job descriptions? Once you translate these into goals for the working life you want, you’re ready to bring your personal priorities to the table.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

That is because throughout the book, authors William D. Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. Eggers and Donald F. Eggers D onald F.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Question And Answer with Jesse Sostrin author of Beyond the Job Description Question : What does the title of your book mean and what’s the truth about what employers really expect that is never written in job descriptions? Sostrin : Beyond the Job Description represents two fundamental truths about the world of work.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. One approach to documenting skill requirements could be to create a matrix of skills and roles for your organization. What skills are needed to achieve your organization’s strategic goals?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

then the new book, Both/And Thinking , by authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis , is for you. When making a decision, we often find ourselves stuck between choosing one option over another, creating a vicious cycle that limits our capabilities and creates consistent tension,” explain the authors. But there is a better way.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

then the new book, Both/And Thinking , by authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis , is for you. When making a decision, we often find ourselves stuck between choosing one option over another, creating a vicious cycle that limits our capabilities and creates consistent tension,” explain the authors. But there is a better way.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Q&A with Jesse Sostrin author of Beyond the Job Description Question : What does the title of your book mean and what’s the truth about what employers really expect that is never written in job descriptions? Once you translate these into goals for the working life you want, you’re ready to bring your personal priorities to the table.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. Make a one-time or monthly financial contribution to the organization. This could be done annually or just one time. Help the organization get authorized for receiving donations on Facebook. Do this all year or several times a year for a week.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. Which goals helped you stay on track in past campaigns?

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

These identity and access management tools enable administrators to add users and assign roles and permissions for users to access data when they sign into the software. This elevated level of access can then be passed on to the applications the user authorizes. Could be the right app but at the wrong time. The reasons?

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In fact, volunteers make up the majority of many nonprofits' workforce and are absolutely critical to their daily operation and goals. With such a critical role, it is important to find committed and motivated volunteers who will be able to help an organization meet its goals. . volunteer management. volunteer management.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But for those who are talking about digital transformation for the first time, there are a few common myths that may feel like obstacles. Employees need to participate in establishing goals , plans, and governance, especially at the outset. But this upfront investment of time pays dividends for years to come. About the Author.

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