Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Collis , a leading expert on civil discourse, reveals ten practical habits that can help you navigate the potential minefields of hard topics and leave you and those you converse with feeling thoughtful and productive. When to deploy tight, slightly self-deprecating humor to lower the conversational temperature.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Finance plays a crucial role in building a sustainable and scalable funding strategy. Because if your organization is relying on a limited number of revenue streams, it can lead to financial instability, especially when many external factors are out of your control. The good news?

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

As research conducted by the Schott Foundation for Public Education and Candid shows, leaders of color and their organizations—who are at the core of this work—remain grossly underfunded, despite philanthropy’s stated commitments to advancing racial justice. They shift the power of capital to organizations themselves.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

When we flip the calendar to a new year, many of us become gripped by the desire to build some new habits. That fresh-start feeling is also palpable at social good organizations. Your $10-a-month donor could be someone who is just dipping their toes into supporting your organization and who has much more to give.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

presents a groundbreaking approach to reducing workplace stress and building resilience through conversation. By leveraging the power of conversations, individuals discover: their unique stressors. ways to build unwavering resilience that elevates their emotional well-being. how to master skills to neutralize stressors.

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sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2024

Most organizations face frequent budget cuts, which creates organizational uncertainty and a scramble for new funding options. But what if your organization could engage in a more thoughtful and systematic practice to build your organizations’ financial capacity without making this tradeoff?

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 22, 2021

Increasing website conversion rates is a perpetual priority for both higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. One of the most reliable methods of increasing your website visitor conversions is through the use of forms. in the higher education space and only 1.0% for nonprofits. Does your website feature forms?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the process of coming up with a nice design and captivating storytelling to capture potential supporters, you may be overlooking a few fundamental and truly effective steps to boost conversions on your online donation page. Supporters want to know that giving to your organization is making a difference. 1) Make Giving Simple.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

As every seasoned fundraiser will tell you, it comes down to building and sustaining a strong network of nonprofit funders. But there’s a catch: Relationship-building takes time. In this blog post, we’ll not only explore the importance of building strong networks and how to find the folks with whom to prioritize building relationships.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Principles of Community Organizing. It’s important to remember that not everything your organization wants to do or achieve, matches up with with your community wants to do, and vice versa.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Luckily, it organized a Habitat for Humanity in California with a board of all-local Habitat affiliates who can advocate for housing with the state. A youth services nonprofit working with government agencies to use a public building for a youth program. How has advocacy made a difference for your organization?

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Together, we’ll explore the essential building blocks of personalized marketing, from understanding your audience to harnessing the power of real-time data. Organizations that embrace personalization are already seeing the benefits : better engagement, stronger member loyalty, and, ultimately, better outcomes for their goals.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 1, 2023

What could be more personal than a good old-fashioned conversation? Post-pandemic, we’re seeing more businesses realize the value of conversational marketing, or actually talking with their customers and letting them respond. Consider this—the typical sales funnel puts a conversation at the end of multiple one-way interactions.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Building genuine relationships is key to fostering trust with these supporters and boosting major donor retention. Use the following tips to build authentic, mutually beneficial relationships with major donors. This can include everything from when they open an email to when a staff member speaks with a donor in person.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

Culture breathes life into your organization and unites your team. The Power of a CRM-Centric Culture Reflecting on my 20-plus years of working with nonprofit organizations, I can point to one pivotal era that underscored the importance of a CRM-centric culture: the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. Build Real Connections At Work Now here’s a fact: Real connections and friendships at work matter because they can help us get stuff done! Leaders need to set an example and hold themselves accountable.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Thanks to global entertainers like Lady Gaga and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and world-class athletes like Kevin Love and Simone Biles, there’s already a shift toward candid public conversations, making mental health far less stigmatized than ever. Charlamagne Tha God’s Life’s Work is Helping Black People Heal. So what does healing look like?

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

If you want to know why every nonprofit organization should have a MarTech stack, read the second blog here. But, how does an organization begin to piece one together? The good news is that you likely already use at least one marketing tool, meaning you are well on your way to building a MarTech stack.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2020

How about a persistent, organized, centralized digital space? Every organization has a “Sarah.” She’s that one person who is the “gatekeeper,” that reliable one who connects everyone, remembers the email chain where you discussed that fundraising idea last year, and knows that Joe is organizing student volunteers for the next event.

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Candid

JUNE 26, 2024

Nonprofit fundraising basics Even for experienced fundraisers, it’s always a good idea to refresh core strategies to get the funding your organization needs. The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World by Amy Sample Ward. Read the PND review.

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Here, we break down the mindset your organization should adopt to implement an omni-channel approach correctly. Moreover, an omni-channel approach will vary for each organization, so there’s no one-size-fits-all framework. It’s important to remember that your constituents don’t know how your organization is structured internally.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Building awareness is only one piece of calling in and calling out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. Instead, it’s designed to help your organization’s culture be defined and its fundamental foundation be made crystal clear.

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Media Cause

JUNE 1, 2024

Fostering Authentic Relationships With and Amongst Your Audience Digital advocacy is critical to moving missions forward, creating systemic change, educating your base, and mobilizing leaders who are loyal to your organization and committed to the larger movement in which you operate. This is especially true during an election year.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

And the best way to get to know your major donors is to ask good questions that spark conversation. But how do you get to know someone when all you know is that they gave your organization a bigger-than-average donation in the last year? You can say something like this: “ Thank you again for your generous gift to XYZ organization!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. Instead, it’s designed to help your organization’s culture be defined and its fundamental foundation be made crystal clear.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2022

Conversational marketing speaks to the growing expectation of a personalized experience and the opportunity to connect and start a one-to-one conversation. . Coined by our partners at Drift , conversational marketing aims to guide users through an engagement funnel more quickly by using real-time conversations.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Here are five tips to build more engaged remote teams. This offers another structured way to build awareness of preferences and how teammates can best work together. Align on team norms Building awareness of individual styles and preferences sets the stage for team alignment on shared norms and behaviors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2021

During isolation, many people reported that it was nice to feel like someone is having a conversation with you, about topics you find interesting. Clubhouse is organized by different rooms that are specific to a certain information topic and are appropriately called, you may have guessed it: clubs. Enter: Clubhouse. .

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study, while data analytics is a higher priority for organizations, just one-third of association professionals report their data is excellent or very good. It could be as simple as an organization is yet to set any goals, visions, or KPIs for its data.

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Forum One

APRIL 14, 2021

Though conversational marketing is relatively new, it speaks to the growing expectation of a personalized experience and the opportunity to connect and start a one-to-one conversation. As you make it easier to engage with your organization, you’re much closer to having their support and involvement in your mission.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

The buildings we work in. It means servers, software, and policies that enable organizations to scale. It runs throughout the organization, and grantmakers must account for it in their funding opportunities. Recognizing the Rise in the Voices the Organization Serves. The roads we drive on.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You meet with the donor, explain that your organization is exploring new types of giving programs, and ask if they’d be open to creating a bequest gift in their will. You agree to reconvene once they have a chance to think about it, but the conversation fizzles out over email, and the donor ultimately turns you down the next time you ask.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Before we discuss how to use data to build stronger relationships for your nonprofit, let’s start with a philosophical question: What is a relationship? There’s a good bit of research focused on the intersection between two people; research on the relationship between a person and an organization is a bit sparse. Okay, welcome back.

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Forum One

MAY 6, 2022

Conversational marketing is the norm, not the exception. As organizations explore heading back to the office, cultural institutions re-open, and nonprofits relaunch in-person opportunities to connect, conversational marketing is a valuable way to deepen connections with online visitors. Modernized communication.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 24, 2022

You just landed a ten million dollar mega gift for your organization. Gifts like this don’t come along that often, but when they do, they can dramatically change an organization. Gifts like this don’t come along that often, but when they do, they can dramatically change an organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

There is no doubt that social media, no matter the platform, remains a powerful way for people to build communities and connect with the causes and nonprofits they care about. As nonprofit social media managers , we have to be thinking about conversions. And the way to increase conversions? 3) Make it frictionless. They don’t!

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