Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Meet frequently with members, prospects, partners, and potential collaborators.

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Blue Avocado

JULY 16, 2024

Improve how your nonprofit evaluates, recognizes, and motivates its employees. If you would like to significantly improve how your nonprofit evaluates, recognizes, and motivates its employees, there are a few strategies that you might implement to help guarantee success. So How Do We Achieve This Gold Standard of Evaluation?

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. Reliable technology guarantees continuous access to learning resources, increases engagement, and enables in-person collaboration. Moreover, localizing the delivery medium (i.e.,

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. Reliable technology guarantees continuous access to learning resources, increases engagement, and enables in-person collaboration. Moreover, localizing the delivery medium (i.e.,

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Additionally, different cultural conventions, attitudes, and communication patterns may make collaborating and transferring knowledge difficult. Reliable technology guarantees continuous access to learning resources, increases engagement, and enables in-person collaboration. Moreover, localizing the delivery medium (i.e.,

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? You can ask your grantees for feedback through surveys, interviews, focus groups, or informal conversations. Are organizations of a certain size more likely to abandon an application or submit it late, for example.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This is something Classy can speak to personally, as we made the decision to pivot our annual conference, the Collaborative, into a fully virtual event this year. The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions drew in over 10,000 registrants and was, in many ways, just as successful as our in-person event. There’s never been a larger demand.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

For example, if you launch a campaign to spread awareness of your hair salon right after you open, you might link to a page that details all of the services you offer in each of your emails and social media posts. For example, let’s say you run a pet training business. Fostering a culture of collaboration.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

As is the case with most media interviews, we talked about many things and I shared examples, information, and opinions, from which two quotes were extracted. For example, even without the social distancing protocols associated with a global pandemic, many organizations don’t even have the space to accommodate large groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Note from Beth: If you’ve been following my blog lately, you know I’ve been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance. It also sparked a conversation on Twitter among some classical music people. How Abundance Can Connect Arts Organizations With Audiences by Marc van Bree.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

You can also run fundraising campaigns directly on social media, encouraging your followers to share and donate to make the fundraising process more collaborative. Humane Society of Pikes Peak’s TikTok is a great example of raising awareness of their organization and engaging with their community. Conversions. Transparency.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Here's the backstory: In the summer of 2021, over 130 funders shared example grant applications with TAG as part of our involvement in the #FixtheForm campaign with GrantAdvisor.org. Collaborative Partnerships and Community Support (5 percent).

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions. Here are some ideas to rejuvenate a shrinking pipeline: Collaborate. For example, the U.S. Re-evaluate your messaging. Adapt your marketing. Diversify your pipeline.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. Well, almost.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

For example, the truth Initiative leverages a multi-step SMS, email, and social messaging campaign to spread awareness of—and stop—the sale of tobacco in Walgreens. For example, they can read the full marketing plan to understand how their responsibilities fit in with other roles and the broader goals of the campaign. Your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

We recently wrapped up our 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions event here at Classy. The Classy team created engaging content that Collaborative participants could use in their professional lives. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, if your largest donations tend to be between $25,000 and $50,000, you might designate that range as your major gift range. For example, to reach your annual giving goals, you might determine that you need to receive at least five donations of $10,000 each, 10 donations of $5,000 each, 15 donations of $2,500 each, and so on.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 21, 2023

For example, consider working with a consultant who provides long-term training support to help you quickly get new employees up to speed with your software. Plan to give consultants a few weeks to respond to your RFP before making your final evaluation. Will my nonprofit be able to collaborate with the consultant successfully?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? For example, if a mailed appeal with a matching gift incentive consistently outperforms others, keep using that format. Passionate explaining of impact?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 15th).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can check it out and join the conversation there ; or read the repost below! The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. What issues is your organization facing or examples can you share? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Tracking: This is keeping track of the conversation themes and threads. The facilitator indicates that they will summarize the discussion and names the themes in play and then invites moving the conversation onward with “any more comments? Encouraging: This is encouraging those who haven’t spoken to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Here’s my latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR Blog or below. If you share feedback or examples that make their way, I’ll certainly give you credit. But this time I wanted to wait until we got this far into the conversation.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Maintenance of Communication and Collaboration Channels. Conversion Rates. For example, sales ops may emerge to assist the sales leader in handling: Administrative tasks. Performance Metrics Analyses. Formulation of Incentives Program. Allocation of Accounts and Sales Territories.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Successful organizations create a quantifiable performance evaluation using fundraising software to identify the top 3–4 metrics. For example, you may want to measure total visits, the number of proposals submitted, the dollars raised, and first-time or qualification visits. Measure the most important goals that lead to results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Replies only appear in your intended recipients stream and in those of people who follow both you and the recipient, so don't be afraid to have conversations with your supporters. Tags: collaboration ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. What is a movement? Or engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

It’s something I can only wrap my mind around by talking to others and hope that this is a chance to further a very important conversation. and so… The Conversation. We are able to work as a small team on the organization side because of the passionate, collaborative, dedicated Community. Well, it means a lot.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Often times the community’s ideas or needs are shared in ways that require translation, of sorts—someone that can bridge the community and organization, listening to the conversations and identifying the opportunities for the organization. The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. It’s crucial to continuously build and re-evaluate these relationships, as the more data you gather, the better you’ll understand your donors and the more powerful and personalized your outreach will become.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

It answers many questions hosts may have about planning, implementing, and evaluating the day. The transcript is here ) The online conversation about how to host successful giving days continues today with an online chat at the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. It can also help you evaluate your group’s current strengths and weaknesses. For example, a job interview, performance evaluation, or strategy decision. Motivation— supports developing strategy, setting goals, and staying focused.

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