Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Mark : Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. Any idea why?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? After all, an average customer retention rate for for-profit businesses range from 54% to 84% , which is well above the nonprofit average of 43%. . Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators. And only 43% of all donors remain loyal?

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AUGUST 12, 2021

In the broadest sense, employee retention depends on a combination of factors, including work-life balance, benefits, compensation, development and learning opportunities , and more. These factors also affect your recruitment rates, as a company that values its employees enough for them to stay is also one that others want to work for.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. She teaches a weekly webinar series and writes a leading blog on nonprofit communications at Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. Rik Panganiban.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 13, 2019

When individuals are not bogged down with minuscule tasks, they can channel energy into the goals of the organization, creating a better work-life balance and overall morale. She also has a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M and loves to travel, play with dogs and bake.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Many organizations provide custom learnings for these areas, as the practical nature of the process may be completely outside the scope of real life. For example, if you are offering a software tutorial in your current learning mix, seek out specific features which may extend the functionality of the application which you are teaching on.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2012

They even use TechSoup Microsoft software donations to rehab used computers for their training labs. This is an after school program that is all about green jobs training and making old things new again. The need for after school programs is growing in modern life. The Mission of After School Programs. Technology moves so fast.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Your body makes a great piece of cardiovascular and resistance training equipment. First, caffeine has a long half-life and can increase our wakefulness long after drinking it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

I often found myself asking, "What do you mean I have to create a volunteer program, or put together an advocacy training, or plan a Halloween carnival? Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. Even in the U.S., Back to School in Brazil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I’ve even used the framework to measure trainings I have delivered! This is a new way of thinking for a lot of nonprofits (not all), so the checklist is a useful way to bring the concept to life. Step 1: Define your goal(s). What outcomes is this strategy or tactic going to achieve? What are your measurable objectives?

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Why does this matter to those of us in the Training, Learning, and Development field? To horribly paraphrase the great Douglas Adams, The meaning of life may be 42 but that doesn’t really mean anything to you unless you know how you arrived at that answer. The purpose of effective social learning is to close this gap.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. She teaches a weekly webinar series and writes a leading blog on nonprofit communications at Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. Rik Panganiban.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Among those employees that had been with an organization for less than five years, the turnover rate was 70%. Teach people to get better at their craft. Be generous with opportunities to develop expertise by attending trainings, conferences, or other skills development seminars.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. Even in the U.S., Back to School in Brazil.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

Burke : I am the President of FSB Associates, and have worked in book marketing and publicity for all of my professional life. Leaders today are more apt to train, teach and engage with their teams informally. The Three Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life. What is your title? Trend 2: Transparency.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

They feature a 400 foot range, 12-hour battery life, and 64-bit digital signal encryption that keeps calls private. Pitney Bowes The Program: Pitney Bowes helps organizations save time and energy by sending newsletters, bulletins, and other mailings with discounted postal rates and meters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. Wish I were!

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Once year-end fundraising passes and we’re in the new year, your nonprofit is in position to focus on development activities —including training your staff and volunteers to reach greater heights in 2022. . Improved staff and volunteer retention rates, fundraising and donor stewardship outcomes, and training engagement come to mind.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

When you become an important part of your donor’s life, they’ll be inclined to reciprocate and become a part of the life of your organization. Aside from a benefit to your charity, this connection also enriches your own life. We train professional musicians, because music soothes the savage beast.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. Would volunteers benefit from a training manual? They can share samples of their writing to illus­trate key concepts such as simplicity and clarity, and they can teach tips on editing and proofreading.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

because this tool has transformed my life as a nonprofit fundraiser, and I believe it will do the same for you… Have you ever been faced with writing something and wished that you had an assistant to do the work for you? uses artificial intelligence that has been trained on billions of real-world examples. was the nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

These days I spend my time doing fundraising, teaching, training, and coaching with my own firm, Productive Fundraising. And I have the honor of teaching the fundraising courses for both Temple University and their 10-week online certificate program and Messiah University for their undergraduate courses. So please do that.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

Many game designers talk about how game mechanics can be applied to functional activities and “boring” topics, but Jane is unique in her argument that game structures don’t just make real life more fun, they help increase human happiness. Voting is a real-life activity that suffers from poor extrinsic structure.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 3, 2022

In pursuit of this mission, EFE has become the leading nonprofit training MENA youth and linking them to jobs in a region with the largest youth population and the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. Throughout this expansion, Cloud for Good Managed Services helped ease transitions, train staff, and build capacity.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

My training is in biology, so I am going to use an ecological metaphor to explain my thinking on this. Relatively few new museums are started each year, and those that do rarely fail (compared, for example, to the rate of start ups and failures for small businesses.) This does not bode well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

Our heart rate rises, the blood is redirected from less essential areas, like our digestive systems, to the muscles. Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". . Helped to motivate you to make some change in your life. Your fear has helped you survive this life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007). Big Vision Podcast'

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate. And that is shocking, and really points to the urgency of the issue. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And so I’m also the creator of an online course called the Marketing Anatomy of a Growing Nonprofit where we bring together all of our knowledge in this space to eight modules to really give you the full training that you need to be successful. If you just had to rate it on a 1 to 10. You know, it’s not cool.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

nonprofit CEOs were killing it, knocking it out of the park, but they still need more money, and they needed their revenue to grow at a higher rate because frankly, the amount of money they were bringing in was simply not matching their strategic plans or the plans within their strategic plans. And I saw the need to come alongside other.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Andy also has written a lot of great books, especially one on training your board. Harvey: As most nonprofits have these days is that renewal rates have been declining and that’s been consistent. It’s staff training, it allows our employees to do their jobs better. Harvey: Somewhere around here. . But essentially.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

Our heart rate rises, the blood is redirected from less essential areas, like our digestive systems, to the muscles. Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". . Helped to motivate you to make some change in your life. Your fear has helped you survive this life.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And you know what the average open rate is? ” 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. Do not set someone lose.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The Corporation for National & Community Service has very insightful statistics on the volunteering and civic life. Top volunteer activities were fundraising (25.4%); collecting or distributing food (24.2%); tutoring or teaching (18%) or mentoring youth (17.3%); and lending professional/managerial expertise (15%).

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