Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Jenn Lim Today, Lim shares these additional insights, thoughts and advice about four-day workweeks: Question: In addition to the research supporting a four-day workweek, why do you believe more companies should adopt this practice? And workplaces designed on old-school factory-style model/thinking are becoming obsolete.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. Sharon is summarizing the notes from all the CoLAB conversations.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. You hold grudges and have difficulty moving on after a challenging conversation. Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

In 2020, the philanthropic sector started conversations about how philanthropy can better support Black-led organizations and the Black community. Organizations hosted “listening” sessions, in which the Black community shared their experiences with leaders in the sector, mostly non-Black people of color and white people.

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M+R

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This caused major issues primarily with conversion tracking, retargeting audience sizes, and lookalike audiences. So Meta was left with only a handful of trackable conversions that they use to optimize their ads and model their lookalike models. In fact, this update has caused a significant decline in Meta ROAS recently.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. The opportunity to share challenges, in confidence, with the brightest colleagues in the business is an invaluable resource. Create space for conversation. It sounds simple. But it’s the assignment that’s easiest to fail. Observe behavior.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. Discussions about best practices, strategic planning sessions, or board development exercises can launch conversations about how and when to evaluate the board’s performance. Those extremely specific goals kept us on target.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. In many cases, it would be a much more efficient use of time to cut way back on organic posts, and instead concentrate on developing a few really effective, conversions-focused ad campaigns. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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CauseVox

JULY 13, 2023

In this webinar we’ll unpack the strategies to achieve better viewer engagement and conversion in videos for digital fundraising. We’ll share case studies of success from our clients that you can model that have raised millions of dollars for big and small nonprofits. Case study review of successful video campaigns.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 16, 2024

It builds on the firm’s suite of audience indicators that show donor behaviors, affinities, and gifting potential without time-intensive custom modeling. For decades, fundraisers have had to choose between conversion and flexibility. Moore unveiled the virtual experience at the recent Woodmark Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Nucleus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave Coriale of DelCor realized 12 years ago that many associations benefit from using a framework to assess these elements, and created the Association IT Maturity Model for this purpose. Final Thought: Mark shared a fantastic quote from one of his colleagues about organizational evolution.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Giving every employee, no matter how junior, the opportunity to share ideas and the agency to manage their work creates an expectation for thought leadership across the organization. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Some employees miss the social aspects of the workplace.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Adaptive learning models can empower teachers to customize instruction for each student’s needs, and students can even personalize a digital tutoring experience. While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Those questions can be in an application, in conversations with program officers, or during the deliberation meetings with your board. Or cover it during a conversation instead of the application. Or at least make sure it’s covered during conversations a program officer might have with an organization. Take it out.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Whenever I am on the road with clients the conversation always turns to a debate about the value of predictive modeling vs. the value of traditional wealth screening. Some tend to gravitate toward wealth data alone because it feels more tangible—or understandable—than predictive modeling. Building your own predictive models?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2020

Introducing Nonprofit Digital Sponsorships: Creating a live or on-demand co-branded online content series that provides value and shares impactful stories for viewers. . I recommend StreamYard for its low cost of $20 per month, ability to brand Lives with logos, go live on multiple channels, have a split-screen conversation, and much more. .

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BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

Buhlig shared how the ASU Foundation is using AI deep learning, “For us to be more efficient and effective at our work, we want to understand what the interests of our donor population. NLP is useful for an AI model to identify the intent of a person based on what they say or what they type. Natural-language processing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Yet, each year for the last six years, they come together to share best practices to make each individual and firm better at serving those organizations. They would rather share and learn with and from their competitors than let that happen! OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

If you need proof that this profession boasts its share of innovators, read a few chapters of our Association 4.0 Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. Resist the temptation to model the competition.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fast forward to today, and PEAK is now in the season of its fifth principle: Learn, Share, Evolve. We must learn and share in order to evolve. While it’s worth pausing to celebrate and share the milestones you reach, approach the next day—and each day after that—as an opportunity for continuous improvement by asking, “What’s next?”

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

That’s why there is no substitute for the impact of personal conversations. When you succeed at recruiting talented leaders, share the good news broadly. Give them a message to share from the beginning. A buddy system helps to reinforce the culture and model the behavior that you want to promote within the organization.

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sgEngage

MAY 13, 2022

However, when funders proactively model transparency, power awareness, and vulnerability, it can be transformative. And more importantly, nonprofits feel safe enough to share openly about what is really happening in their organizations and in their work. It will save you precious time in the long run. Don’t lead anyone on.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Interestingly, they each had different stories to tell, yet they all shared one strategy: All are engaging volunteers as leaders in new ways to help with retention. These conversations underscored a truth that we have long observed: Engaging volunteers as leaders is a great way to build capacity beyond what staff alone can achieve.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. Meaningful, substantive conversations are one of the most effective ways to learn and grow. Much like the Socratic method, when we have discussions and conversations, new ideas emerge and our understanding is deepened and magnified.

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

That’s why the VMware Foundation and Taproot Foundation partnered on a paper titled Transforming Technology Pro Bono—to advance this conversation and ultimately to help accelerate the adoption of transformational technology in the social sector. A Foundation Director Shares Best Practices appeared first on Learn - GlobalGiving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

You can further follow-up on these non-converting prospects with perhaps a series of telephone calls aimed at further conversion. The aim is to keep sharing and inviting them to support the organization. I recommend that you keep “speaking” to them by sending them your regular e-news updates and existing appeals.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Instead of completing the task yourself or putting it on the pile, send it to a trained model that can deliver a rough draft or quick solutions. If you don’t know what GPT models can do or how to properly use them with prompt architecture there is limited upside. MODEL: requires Read.ai MODEL: requires Read.ai

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

” Its response neatly explained the nitty-gritty: “ ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. Google’s Bard is a generative language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code. Please note that National Cat Day is Sunday, October 29—some posts should center around that.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Although I don’t have all the answers, I can share what has worked in my experience. Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Organizations need to train people how to recognize, address (this is often during feedback conversations), and de-escalate the conflict.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

Customizing default social media language to display when campaigns are shared. Direct services can share client testimonials that help you to tell the story of your nonprofit. Set up a mobile payment option to boost conversion rates with a seamless experience that reflects your brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. It eventually shifts to two-way conversation. These points also make me think about an organizational listening/learning model.

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