Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

penniless as a teenager, speaking almost no English; he literally slept in the boiler room of a Wisconsin cheese factory for months before he was caught. Leal came to the U.S. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. He is widely credited with introducing Mexican cheeses to the U.S.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Improving public health in the United States needs to include actions at the local community level and across many sectors. However, data on the health status of different local communities, and which actions are most effective, are hard to come by. . The Ocean Health Index.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The attempted arson took place on August 24th, 2020, one day after police officers shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, leaving him paralyzed. Amidst broader protests in Seattle and across the country, two people threw Molotov cocktails at the rear entrance of the headquarters of the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

The states that will soon have active Apple Stores are: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin, the report says. Customers can also visit apple.com for support by phone or chat.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 26, 2013

As local as possible, relating to the community, city or state where your program is located. This is where local data is important – find data to demonstrate why this is a particularly pressing issue in your area. Remember the data should be: Recent, within the past 2 years if possible. Are childhood obesity rates higher?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Over the summer, the local humane society in Appleton, Wisconsin shared a story of one of its dogs, a chocolate lab named Hank, who was available for adoption, but had done something very wrong. . #2: Use Transmedia Storytelling to Share Stories That Inspires InspireAction.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Additionally, representatives from local nonprofits shared their experiences with social media at the various forums. Read a first-hand account from Jeff Dawson, director of the Lester Public Library in Wisconsin, on how this rural library built up its social media presence. NetSquared. Got social media tips or advice?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, we found one example, from the Wisconsin-based Eau Claire Community Foundation to the American Red Cross, with the description: “Hurricane Dorian relief, unrestricted.” . Support local nonprofits and knowledge in the U.S. Local knowledge is crucial, as is trusting the expertise of affected communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Mizfit is donating a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. Gallaga said he got an e-mail from a teacher thanking him and telling him that the money was being used to buy AV equipment at a low-income school in Wisconsin. Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: How to Tell Your Nonprofit Story with Spark. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming. Monday, October 2, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 17, 2006

The Organic Consumers Association , nonprofit public interest organization, has called for a boycott of Horizon and Aurora organic dairy products and the Cornucopia Institute , a farm policy research group based in Wisconsin, filed a legal complaint last Thursday with the USDA against Horizon Milk.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. The organization provides tools that show campaign contributions, legislative votes, and patterns of influence.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

State and local income and property taxes are now limited to a $10,000 deduction. Limited deductions of state and local income and property taxes. State and local income and property taxes are now capped to a $10,000 deduction for those who itemize. This provides clear evidence that the estate tax encourages charitable giving.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Additionally, representatives from local nonprofits shared their experiences with social media at the various forums. Read a first-hand account from Jeff Dawson, director of the Lester Public Library in Wisconsin, on how this rural library built up its social media presence. NetSquared. Got social media tips or advice?

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2021

The Saris is great because I don’t have to remove my wheel to use it, it’s not hideously loud, and it’s made in Wisconsin. If you’re looking at getting something like this, my very strong advice is to buy it from a local bike shop. Apple Fitness Plus can’t read it, but other indoor bike apps like Zwift or Garmin can.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

In total, we raised [$Total Revenue] to support the local animal shelter. Caitlin has a Bachelors in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of St. We can’t thank you enough for your support—and neither can the animals!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

To celebrate the first day, and hopefully prevent the recurrence of the second, here is an e-interview with Rae Abileah, the Local Groups Coordinator of CODEPINK. What do you do as the Local Groups Coordinator? Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

The Needham Community Farm is enhancing their relationship with a local pizza shop by offering a chance to win the pizza party. If you’re an advocacy organization – like Citizen Action of Wisconsin (below) – you’re probably already doing this. Sponsor Sweepstakes.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. By bringing your services to local neighborhoods, and eliminating the cost of admission and transportation, organizations can reach atypical participants.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Aashish Patel, director of product management, Nvidia — covering “app distribution; Nvidia’s GeForce Now service and business model; differences between streamed apps and locally hosted apps; differences between native apps and web apps; App Store review process; interactions with Apple.” David Evans , chairman, Global Economics Group.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

Consider the Wikisonic , a beautiful collaborative instrument initiated by Jon Brouchoud, an architect from Wisconsin. That r elates to a more general question: How do virtual exhibits translate to real exhibits? In Second Life, this instrument is a cylinder of nearly invisible spheres floating in the air.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Jordyn Schara | WI P2D2 (Wisconsin Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal) | Reedsburg, WI Wisconsin Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal (WI P2D2) has collected over 900,000 pounds of un-used prescription drugs curtailing over-the-counter (OTC) drug abuse. Twitter: @JessicaHLadd ) 8. Twitter: @PDXJrScientists ) 16.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Tammy Baldwin, (D-Wisconsin); Sen. And they’re right — this would have an impact on the delivery of everything from local newspapers to prescriptions to Grandma’s birthday card. Rashida Tlaib, (D-Michigan); and Rep. Jill Tokuda, (D-Hawaii). The eight senators are: Sen. Tammy Duckworth, (D-Illinois); Sen. Connolly said.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In the letter, the groups cite a range of violent acts linked to Facebook, from genocide in Myanmar to the recent shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin , which set a troubling precedent for the growing anti-Muslim sentiment in India. In August, Das filed a criminal complaint against a local journalist after a Wall Street Journal report.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I was already studying agriculture at the University Wisconsin-Madison. It was shocking and deplorable, really terrible, to learn that and know that it's not at the forefront of a lot of people's thinking when they think about local food or regional food. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally. It stops at a certain point.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

In comparison, organizations in the District of Columbia and Wisconsin, which secured the second and third most funding, only received $75 million and $35 million respectively. It is, thus, possible that funding went towards activities outside the geographical locales of the organizations’ headquarters. Source: Foundation 1000.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The site was unveiled at an event on Wednesday in Washington by its sponsors, the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The data and content were provided by policy staff at the University of Wisconsin with support from Burness Communications. ALEXANDRIA, Va.,

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2021

Last year, the company was criticized for not removing a self-proclaimed militia’s “call to arms” in Kenosha, Wisconsin, until a fatal shooting took place during the event. But it indicates that Facebook could be particularly vigilant in, for instance, removing incendiary event pages around Minneapolis.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

I'd like you to meet Kerry Thomson at Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, Indiana; Lori Chidgey of Corazon Ministries in San Antonio, Texas; Betty Martin of Cape Girardeau Public Library in Missouri; and the late Rory Foster of the Northwoods Wildlife Center in Minocqua, Wisconsin. A World Where Everyone Has a Decent Place to Live.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I went home to live with my parents in rural Wisconsin, and just to be close to my roots, and have the space to really think about the vision. I spent a lot of time in the fields of Wisconsin journaling, researching, reading, writing, creating the manifesto, if you will. I canceled my entire business, which was a big step.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To do this, we found a top-of-the-line event platform, developed video assets to aid in the event’s storytelling, and even sent virtual attendees meals from local caterers. Forum One worked with NMAAHC to create a unique virtual experience that would feel almost like attendees were there in person.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

As a native Texan going to graduate school in Wisconsin, I signed up on a sunny September day not only to support the cause, but also because it seemed like something that would make for a good story one day. My graduate school class at the Wisconsin School of Business raised more than $10k for the Wisconsin Special Olympics.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To do this, we found a top-of-the-line event platform, developed video assets to aid in the event’s storytelling, and even sent virtual attendees meals from local caterers. Forum One worked with NMAAHC to create a unique virtual experience that would feel almost like attendees were there in person.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

They’ll share their yield map with whoever their local seed salesman is and try to optimize the seed variety for the next planting season in the spring. On my way to school every day in Wisconsin growing up, I drove by a Case plant. They’re the ones who are controlling the access to it. And they do today. So that data exists.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

iPhone builder Foxconn is dangling a massive electric vehicle project in front of Wisconsin after burning the state with promises of a multibillion-dollar LCD factory that never happened. Well, because that’s how things go with Foxconn in Wisconsin. Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. at the mostly empty site it owns in the state.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Consumers in California are not charged the $30 fee, while locations in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan charge the fee but offer a $30 gift card as reimbursement. The boxes are shipped to you and then back to Staples at no extra cost; just drop off the sealed packages at your local UPS drop-off point or call for a pickup.

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