Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

The timeless essence of managing numbers and leading people can be learned in less time and at a lower cost than in a traditional two-year MBA, where much of the curriculum may become obsolete by the time students graduate. As we process new ideas -- including from management books! -- we're always looking for social validation.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Members of the NAF WBL Fellows 2014 The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is a leader in preparing high school students for college and career success.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The AARP® Purpose Prize award is a national award in the United States that celebrates people 50 and older who are using their life experience to make a difference. Through the Purpose Prize award, AARP celebrates the creativity, innovation, and inspiration that life experience brings. Areas served: New York.

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Twenty Hats

APRIL 6, 2021

Back in the late aughts I had my first brush with volunteer management, when I volunteered for a second year with a film festival in New York City. Since that time I have been looking for ways to make scheduling volunteers a better experience for everyone involved. When low(er) tech is the answer to our scheduling needs.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools. Such strategies help bridge the gap between physical and digital experiences, expand brand loyalty and recognition, as well as build trust sustainably. Learn More About C.J. Christopher J. Stanfill, Ph.D.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And on the education side of things, learn how the most innovative minds in the education sector are building future-ready institutions, scaling faculty and staff impact, and creating powerful learner experiences. This is the heart of the Dreamforce experience, where customers come to get a jumpstart on learning, networking, and having fun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. New York Public Library 2015.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And on the education side of things, learn how the most innovative minds in the education sector are building future-ready institutions, scaling faculty and staff impact, and creating powerful learner experiences. This is the heart of the Dreamforce experience, where customers come to get a jumpstart on learning, networking, and having fun.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Grants up to $5,000 will be provided to schools and organizations looking for the funding needed to connect kids in their community to local public lands and waters through a positive and impactful outdoor experience. Robin Hood is New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization. Areas served: New York City.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After a year of pandemic-fueled isolation — undoubtedly a primary factor in 42% of adults experiencing anxiety and depression, up 11% from previous years — educational institutions and businesses are making the mental wellbeing of their students and employees a priority. Listen to episode five of the Force Multiplier podcast.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

I’d like to share our experience with Lavelle, where they took a series of calculated risks in grantmaking. It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Almost everyone has an experience that motivated them to get involved in a given cause. For example, I became involved in LGBTQ+ organizing because I found community in a way I had never experienced before with an organization in college that worked to support LGBTQ+ students. Think of it as an expansion of your Story of Self.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

One of those organizations is the YWCA of the City of New York (YW), a nonprofit organization that offers job training, daycare, and after-school programs to New York City women and their families. My colleagues and I spent an afternoon of job shadowing at our office with ten students from the high school.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Keynote speakers include Glennon Doyle , New York Times bestselling author, activist, philanthropist, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast; and Simu Liu , actor, writer, producer, and one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People of 2022.” Register now for bbcon 2022. Andrew’s School in Barrington, RI.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Our goal is to graduate more students who are ready to enter aerospace and advanced manufacturing careers and STEM-focused post-secondary education.” . Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Her client solutions often challenge convention and create new pathways that deliver results and exceed expectations. Sectors of experience include media, entertainment, financial services, metals/mining, start-ups, and world-class service organizations. Wendy is collaborative, inclusive, and positive.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

In the new book, From the Bench to the Boardroom , Michael MacDonald shares his journey from humble beginnings in the outskirts of Philadelphia, to his college basketball career at Rutgers, to executive positions at Xerox and Medifast. The more diversity you have in terms of opinions, experiences, and yes, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.,

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. The PowerMyLearning online resource launched just a few years ago and was developed by the New York-based educational nonprofit, Computers for Youth (CFY).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University''s Leonard N. For the average person, what''s the level reached during their lifetime if they don''t ever experience the 20X Factor? Stern School of Business.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University's Leonard N. For the average person, what's the level reached during their lifetime if they don't ever experience the 20X Factor? Stern School of Business.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. students at Stanford University. Paul D'Alessandro, J.D., and abroad.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. 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. March 1 - 2.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 9, 2008

These were quite familiar to folks like Frank Simpson of the Lavelle School in New York and Miki Jordan of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles. We enjoyed getting a chance to chat with a couple of the students who were impressively fluent. What an experience! We visited the English language classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Here’s some statistics about what happens when a girl who makes it through both high quality primary and secondary education is… …less likely to experience violence or marry and have children whilst she is still a child. …more likely to be literate, healthy and survive into adulthood, as are her children.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I worked so hard in those three unpaid months that I made myself indispensable and jumped ship from my home country (Scotland) and came to New York. My whole career path has been positively changed by that one internship experience. It was the only one I could afford to do. It was made possible by a small, unexpected windfall.

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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. We want to see that students with disabilities have equal opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University''s Leonard N. For the average person, what''s the level reached during their lifetime if they don''t ever experience the 20X Factor? Stern School of Business.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? The New York Times. Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons.”. For me, a partnership with my university landed me free admission to several local museums with my student ID, which led me to visit two museums this year that I hadn’t been to in over five years.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Every exhibit felt new and fresh, and whether this was intentional, the exhibits all seemed to create a cohesive experiential thread—which can be difficult to do with a more conventional mixture of permanent and special exhibits. If I lived in Chicago, I’d be constantly popping in to check out what’s new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

(Here’s the official announcement on the Google Blog and review in the New York Times. Google + was just one of a series of new releases and changes as part of leveraging Google’s communications products. This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. His definition: A style in which the trainer acts as a peer to the student, physically sitting with the student and explaining technical concepts simply.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. Karina Lungo is a graduate student in the MNpS program at Arizona State University. New York: Random House, 2009. In fact, though the U.S. but what about giving just a little more? Like this article?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The best thing about these community-driven events is that you end up learning a lot just by talking to other nonprofits and listening to their experiences. As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. 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. Feb 27 - 28.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Technology students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This was a great way for the students to contribute to their community. and to get practical, hands-on app development experience. The really cool thing is how Public Art Omaha did it: their public art. database and mobile apps were created by Information Science and.

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