Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter. They communicate bad news early so it doesn’t become a larger problem. The problem is our true gift might be a few layers below what we are apparently good at. Baird/Sullivan : We are all gifted at something.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Be sure to read the highlighted key principles and takeaways at the end of every chapter. They communicate bad news early so it doesn’t become a larger problem. The problem is our true gift might be a few layers below what we are apparently good at. Feeling disrespected was cited by 57% of those who left as the reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. If you have to leave early, no problem. She’s got an awesome YouTube channel where she does a lot of free trainings as well.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

I also pointed her to CASE's book Advancement Services: A Foundation for Fund Raising , and CASE's Handbook of Institutional Advancement , which includes a chapter on Advancement Services, as well as the Association of Advancement Services Professionals. Advancement Services should be the foundation supporting the rest of Advancement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 28, 2015

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager''s time is spent addressing conflict. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Leadership Chapter Contest Analysis 44

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 8, 2011

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. Fortunately, in Susan H.

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Review Chapter Contest Analysis 58

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. Use current volunteers as a resource. Connect with civic groups.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What’s our role? If organizations are a part of the solution, a part of the process, what does that role really look like? Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is. Organizations need to take responsibility for their role in creating and sustaining slacktivism. Remember the car?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

We were especially thrilled to learn that one of TechSoup's nonprofit members, Year Up , was spotlighted as a model for employment and technology training. I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event. The Power of a Year. Year Up's Partnership with TechHire.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit (See Chapter 2, "Documentation and Your Master Key," and Chapter 3, "Remote and Local Backup." Don't impose your own model for how technology at your organization should look; listen to the organization's performance and learn where the problem spots are.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit (See Chapter 2, "Documentation and Your Master Key," and Chapter 3, "Remote and Local Backup." Don't impose your own model for how technology at your organization should look; listen to the organization's performance and learn where the problem spots are.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

This is what we need you to do, so roles and responsibilities, those were sent out in advance before anybody then ultimately committed. . So what she is doing in her offerings is she’s a lawyer and she’s looking at how might I find a solution to this problem? . Those words I often use in my trainings with fundraisers.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In this role, foundations are uniquely situated with the experience and expertise to lead the way forward on issues that affect people throughout our nation and across the globe. Association of Fundraising Professionals, DC Chapter / National Harbor, MD / $765. Council on Foundations / Philadelphia,PA / $799. Fundraising & Grants.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Now I’m in the office because nobody’s traveling and that’s not going to be a problem. These days I spend my time doing fundraising, teaching, training, and coaching with my own firm, Productive Fundraising. So love to teach and train and share the knowledge I have to take other organizations to the next level.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. This year, the Yale Philanthropy Conference will explore the evolving role of philanthropy within this ecosystem of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

When one looks under the hood of a successful activism efforts, as Beth and I did for The Networked Nonprofit , whether part of movements or campaigns, they have a combination of initially tight ties, someone does have to drive the train, and loose ties, others have to join the effort for it to take off.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so when we think of that step one, that goal setting, the goal setting is not the problem. But now, here’s the problem. But the problem was, he had never done that before. Now, we have to train the team, we have to train the board how to do this high ROI fundraising. So this is a math problem.

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Money Video Fundraising Gift 109

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

For anyone who’s been my student or come to my trainings, I’m really focused on usable knowledge. And I wanted to say one more thing, which is that I am generally when I do teaching and training, I am always paying attention to the expressions on participant’s faces. It’s great to be inspiring, but I would.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

” So there should be one person who is trained and who is the person who does all of the donor data. So a lot of vendors like Bloomerang, I get a weekly e-mail, I think it’s on Fridays, with all the training that’s available for the database. So make sure that you actually train them. Do not set someone lose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowds Can Not Be Trained Like Seals by Beth Kanter. Crowdsourcing Resources.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In chapter 8, Asher explains that the best presentations have stories and if you want to be a good speaker, you need to know how to tell an effective story. Think how powerful it can be to include all your employees in problem solving and to use all the approaches! Ashers formula is: Start with the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The Return by Danielle Brigida, NWF NWF Description of Case Study While strategy plays an important role within the National Wildlife Federation, initially it was very hard to determine one for our social media presences. That Twitter was the answer to all their programs' problems evermore. . `At It’s hard to prove social media’s role.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

These are in what I consider is the best chapter of the book The Essential HR Handbook , that she co-authored with Barbara Mitchell. Think how powerful it can be to include all your employees in problem solving and to use all the approaches! Clustering everyone in the middle performance-rating categories 2.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution. To get the eBook, go to the Speechworks home page. Then, call a meeting to have a discussion.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2010

See Chapter 8 on mastering the daily and weekly executive meeting. How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. In many institutions, these questions cause problems that cost both emotionally and economically. Problems arise when leaders style themselves as superstars to avoid team decision-making (a role typified by the boss on The Office).

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

No problem. And my promise to you is that you will have three or four actionable items, tools, ways of communicating that you can implement today, right now, no problem, to start getting more response from your efforts and getting those problems. I know a lot of have you already introduced yourselves. That’s awesome.

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Product Video Donor Structure 71

Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And even since Sarah and I started this presentation a couple of years ago, this has changed as the younger generations, we all are aging up, and the next generations are starting to enter the workforce more, and millennials are taking over more leadership roles. They will find another way to solve the problem that they care about.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. Microwork may, then, represent a crisis of work in its fullest etymological sense: that is, a turning point.

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