Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

As an business executive, he found the perfect environment to apply these skills. Michael : To some extent, it depends which role you are hiring for, but generally speaking, all of these are critical. Prior to this role, MacDonald was executive vice president of OfficeMax, from August to October 2011, overseeing the Contract Division.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2023

The march in New York City and parallel events that took place across the country are considered a watershed moment for LGBTQIA+ rights and the push for liberation of the LGBTQIA+ community. A year after the riots, the first pride parades took place in several U.S. cities to commemorate the anniversary.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Working in Save the Children International’s Anticipatory Action team, Emma’s role is focused on strengthening capacities and approaches to prevent or minimize the impacts of extreme weather events on children. In his role, he supports country partners in developing and delivering solutions to support agriculture development.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. This session will help participants to assess their organization’s technology needs and capacity; work with technical volunteers; and understand the role of technology planning as the foundation for an effective operating environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Artificial barriers among program areas and staff can breed reactionary environments that are frustrating at best and debilitating at worst. Those meetings led to content assignments, so everyone was contributing based on their role in the organization and the unique perspective they could bring to mission-driven content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

As it turns out, culture plays an important role in the ability for nonprofit organizations to use data to their advantage. But what stood out was the important role culture played in these nonprofits using data to drive better results. The good news is that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to organizational culture.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The first condition is a panoramic perspective or an ability to look beyond traditional sector roles, titles, and stereotypes, as well as profit, to create real societal value. New York City was the first “City of Service” and since NYC Service launched, over 200 U.S. cities have joined the network. NationSwell Council.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

I’ve been journeying to Chiang Mai and other parts of Thailand to meet with ND-Burma and its member organizations for three years, and I found it personally rewarding to see other users meeting and learning from ND-Burma’s experiences in their day-to-day environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2009

  I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts for 12 years on a range of arts and technology programs, including a network for artists called Arts Wire. The topic was the role that artists can play in shaping communities with particular focus on plans for 9/11, a new National Day of Service and Remembrance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Finally, we are thrilled to have Christy Chin step into a new role of Chair of the Benetech Board of Directors.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look for mobile providers to combine these ideas to enable a virtual meeting environment with video, audio, whiteboard, and presentations from multiple attendees. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. I want to hear from you.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

IMPACT 2030 is the Global Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The Role of Millennials. Malini Mehra, CEO of Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE), added that the millennial generation is the most educated in history. It’s also the generation facing the most challenges.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2018

In order to truly tap into that potential, we must look beyond traditional sector roles, titles, and stereotypes and create real societal value – not just profit — and think openly and creatively about the value that each partner brings to the relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The focus of the conference was on the role of technology/connectivity to drive social change. On one end the social spectrum, we have the version best expressed in a New York Times op ed written by Thomas Friedman on the revolution occurring in Silicon Valley. What does it mean to live in a “social” world in 2012?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Because of the nature of my work, I’m lucky to be surrounded by many purpose-driven organizations making a difference for people, animals and the environment. The next step was for smaller groups of students to spend time with certain staff members so that they could learn about specific roles—customer service, IT, marketing, and sales.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. As the nonprofit community considers the future of virtual media in education, particularly in libraries and museums, it must not forget the role Second Life plays in pushing information sharing and experiencing to new heights and levels.

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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. I live now in New York, but before moving there in the autumn, I was based in London for a few years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The top 100. A leader board can also keeps the sponsor honest.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $480. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Innovation Enterprise / New York, NY / $1,495. Digital Marketing Conferences (DIGIMARCON) / New York, NY / $895. Finance / @southwestfdns.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Today, Kristen helps organizations make a lasting, meaningful impact on people by creating environments in which they thrive. Prior to joining the Eagles in 2000, Julie worked in the television and business affairs department at the National Hockey League in New York. ignitedfundraising.com.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

In its effort to help local people to meet local needs, LIN aims to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic environment and strengthen the communities. The community itself plays a role in building a peaceful community. YCAB Foundation is an NGO based both in New York and Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Monica Montgomery - Building a Museum of Impact In New York City, Monica Octavia Montgomery is pushing the boundaries of how we make relevant, powerful museum exhibits with the Museum of Impact. But she immediately saw that she had an additional role to play: as a truth-teller of the full history of the site. Want to know more?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In my new series Designing for Good , we’ll chat with these innovators about their inspirations, challenges, and favorite tools. In this episode, we’re talking with Josh Tabb and Pratima Mani of Malaria No More in New York City. WHAT DO BOTH OF YOU DO AT MALARIA NO MORE? . Pratima: I’m the Graphic Designer.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

But don’t do that right now because one of my best buddies, Kishshana Palmer, is here for beautiful Washington, DC by way of New York City, normally, right, Kishshana? When I started in the sector right after grad school, I realized that there weren’t a lot of folks who I thought looked like me who were in leadership roles.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Diversity has become a central topic in every environment over the last couple of years. To have a truly diverse environment, an organization must develop an intentional focus to hire people from groups that have been systematically discriminated against and oppressed at work. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

At in-person sessions in New York City and San Francisco, and virtually on Youtube Live , Demo Day brought together nine social entrepreneurs to explore solutions for problems they’ve experienced. Several recent studies have shown that technology can exacerbate bias and discrimination.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

It's an educational role, a cheerleading role, and because we are both piloting this workshop project and trying to use it simultaneously to develop exhibits in a six-month concept-to-floor timeframe, I am both humble and desperate in my hunt for good ideas. The software crashes (for me about once each day). The landscape is foreign.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

revolution came along, and the Web became a social environment where people could share their own content with others, discuss it, and redistribute it. Two of my favorite examples of museums that found strategic ways to be generous are COSI in Columbus, OH, and the Wild Center in the Adirondacks of New York.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

First, they aggregate findings into broad categories such as Housing, Transportation, and Environment. New York University’s City Health Dashboard succinctly shows data. Effective data visualization and interpretation play a crucial role in engaging audiences and driving action. How are you using data to create impact?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Usually this blog is more about analysis than links. But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. Some guesses (please add your own): Commerce is powerful.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Writer and author of New York Times best seller "Bad Feminist," modern-day feminist icon Roxane Gay is a force of nature. She took an active role in the independence movement aimed at relinquishing Ottoman rule over Greec e, investing her own fortune into securing arms, ships, and otherwise equipping the soldiers under her command.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We know we all have a role to play in turning the tide on climate change, so we’ve rounded up the changes that the current scientific evidence suggests will have the biggest impact on your personal carbon footprint. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

3 People Power People Power puts you in the role of a movement leader trying to fight oppression through non-violent revolution. Not only does the game turn "doing good" into a fun experience, it's also creating a legion of content creators who are comfortable being themselves online. #

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And how can you write and create campaigns that don’t just talk about what your need is but talk about their role or participation and how they can partner with you in supportive ways that make it come to life, where they can see themselves engaging in more meaningful ways? They love to see your name in “The New York Times.”

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