How to Teach Your Major Gifts Officers to Close
NonProfit PRO
MAY 16, 2024
Here are some of my top tips for ensuring your major gift officers are prepared to ask for and close on a donation.
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What Anti-Maskers Can Teach Nonprofits
NonProfit PRO
MAY 5, 2021
For the last two years, I’ve been studying the impact of identity on prosocial behavior; it’s the topic of my doctoral dissertation. This idea informs the fundraising copy that I write for our clients at Turnkey. Last week, I saw an interesting example of how identity influences attitudes.
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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022
The MatrixFiles
JANUARY 4, 2022
The post What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022 appeared first on The MatriX Files. I hope you find comfort and strength in The Stockdale Paradox. We are living in a Stockdale moment and we all need to become Admiral Stockdale.
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How to Teach Your Boss to Do Better Sponsorship
The Sponsorship Collective
AUGUST 22, 2022
How do you teach them to get […]. The post How to Teach Your Boss to Do Better Sponsorship appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective. Perhaps you’ve even joined my exclusive Facebook group where I share sponsorship training modules first. As a result, you’ve learned a lot, but your boss hasn’t.
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Creating an Omnichannel Marketing Experience with Teach For America and Salesforce Interaction Studio
Cloud 4 Good
MARCH 29, 2022
Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit that recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding leaders who make an initial two-year commitment to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to end educational inequity. Written by Blake Becker.
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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 20, 2021
The post What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising appeared first on Bloomerang. One of my favorites is How to Build a High-Performing Major Gifts Program with Gail Perry, MBA, CFRE. . Farewell, mortal bus boys (and girls)!
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What Baseball Can Teach Us about Sponsorship
The Sponsorship Collective
APRIL 28, 2021
The post What Baseball Can Teach Us about Sponsorship appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective. To be completely honest with you, baseball isn’t my thing. Now hockey, on the other hand… Yet today, baseball is exactly what I want to talk about. Not only […].
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Teach An Employee Something New Today
Eric Jacobsen Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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Be A Leader Who Teaches
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MAY 1, 2019
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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Be A Leader Who Teaches
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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Incorporate These Three Learning Styles When Teaching Employees Something New
Eric Jacobsen Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Your employees have different learning styles – typically falling within these three categories: Visual Learners Auditory Learners Tactile Learners Therefore, it’s best to incorporate all three styles when teaching something new, according to the book, Customer Service Management Training 101. Keep in mind that: Visual learns learn by seeing.
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What A Pandemic Teaches Us About Innovation and Corporate Giving
Givinga
JANUARY 26, 2021
The post What A Pandemic Teaches Us About Innovation and Corporate Giving appeared first on Givinga. By making a sustained, ongoing difference and building infrastructure, companies make it easier to give back and engage when it is needed most.
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Improving Learning Activities for Association Members
Cadmium CD
MAY 18, 2023
Educators know that tailoring teaching approaches to meet the unique needs of individual learners is crucial for keeping them engaged in the learning process. The same is true for associations offering professional development courses to their members.
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Teach An Employee Something New Today
Eric Jacobsen Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2013
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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The Role of DEI in Today’s Nonprofit
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 1, 2022
Since I enjoy teaching, I loved this class interaction. Recently, a master’s level student and her professor at Mindanao State University in the Philippines asked me to lecture their class on nonprofit management principles.
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Be A Leader Who Teaches
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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Don’t Be Afraid to Move the Rug! Seven Steps for Organizational Excellence
.orgSource
JUNE 27, 2022
Consultants see everything—from organizations that make Dunder Mifflin look like a tight ship to associations that could teach us a thing or two. We focus attention on what the most successful groups do right.
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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 21, 2012
Set up a Spend, Give, and Save Allowance Policy: For younger kids, here’s a nifty piggy bank , with separate slots for investing, saving, spending, and donating is a great way to teach kids about devoting a portion of their income to charity.
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Teach An Employee Something New Today
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 10, 2015
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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Hollywood Storytelling Techniques that Boost Your Online Fundraising
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 8, 2022
We break down storytelling best practices and teach you how to apply them to boost your online fundraising. We can easily adapt a framework that has been perfected over the last 100 years by a multi-billion-dollar industry—and use it for good!
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246 Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum
Tech Soup
APRIL 7, 2014
Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes. GCF Learn Free.
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Hollywood Storytelling Techniques that Boost Your Online Fundraising
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 18, 2022
We’ll break down storytelling best practices and teach you how to apply them to boost your online fundraising. We can easily adapt a framework that has been perfected over the last 100 years by a multi-billion-dollar industry—and use it for good!
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Teach An Employee Something New Today
Eric Jacobsen Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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Healthy Fear, Healthy Habit: Teaching Privacy to New Internet Users
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Simple Steps for Teaching Privacy. Although privacy issues can be a challenge to teach, Scott recommends a few simple steps for digital literacy educators: Provide basic privacy instruction. It's a heated, political topic and it will come up when you're teaching privacy. Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum.
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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 8, 2015
I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This exercise was teaching us to be open to change.
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Teach Something New To An Employee Today
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 15, 2013
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology. Be a leader who teaches.
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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
For those of us who also focused on training, instruction, and professional learning for nonprofits, the New Media Consortium , has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale for the past ten years.
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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 13, 2011
How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.
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The Maker Party is on! Join the global campaign to teach the web.
NTEN
JULY 15, 2014
That’s why we’re supporting this global effort to teach web literacy through hands-on learning and making with the Maker Party. Technology shapes how we learn, how we connect, and how we communicate, but not everyone has the basic skills and information they need to harness the power of the web.
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89 What Dogs Teach Us About Leadership
Eric Jacobsen Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2017
That's because, according to co-authors Krissi and Dan Barr , dogs can teach humans a lot about leadership. Because 44 percent of U.S. households with at least one dog according to ASPCA, many of us don't have to go far to learn about leadership.
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Paul Smith Teaches You How To Sell With A Story
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. It didn’t take long).
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What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About Giving Days
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 13, 2015
What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About the Giving Challenge – Guest Post by Susie Bowie. I just read a fun piece on Next Avenue called “5 Sesame Street Lessons We Need Again As Adults” by Bryce Kirchoff.
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[ASK AN EXPERT] When Should You Hire A Development Consultant?
Bloomerang
MARCH 22, 2024
You know the old adage: “Give me a fish and I eat for a day; teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” To teach existing staff or board how to do something so they can carry on themselves. If you’re hiring a consultant because you can’t get approval for a regular hire, you’re wasting the opportunity to become self sufficient.
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The Life And Business Lessons My Father Taught Me
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 31, 2023
So, I thank my dad for teaching me the following business and life lessons : Listen - Growing up, I thought my Dad was perhaps shy or quiet. He loved even more to teach. Thank you, Dad, for teaching me these valuable lessons by setting such a good example. Really, he was just a great listener. He loved to learn. I miss you.
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E-Readers for Everyone: Teaching Tips Webinar
Tech Soup
AUGUST 22, 2012
Learn more about e-reader teaching tips during TechSoup's free 30-minute webinar. Yet 48 percent of all owners of e-book reading devices such as Kindles and NOOKs say they don't know if their library lends e-books. And 47 percent of those who read an e-book in the past year say they don't know.
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What DoSomething.Org Can Teach You About Snapchat
NonProfit Hub
AUGUST 25, 2014
The post What DoSomething.Org Can Teach You About Snapchat appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Lately, they’ve been up to making a Snapchat story in partnership with Sprint’s Backseat Adviser campaign , which helps discourage texting and driving. Featured Social Media'
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What To Do When You're New
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JANUARY 15, 2024
Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. I found the teachings about asking questions as a newcomer particularly useful.
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Donor Engagement: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
We’ve all heard the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” Have you ever tried? It’s a myth. You sure can! New forms of games or play can actually provide more happiness and longevity in a dog’s later years. Don’t just believe something is true just because you’ve heard it a few times.
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Case Study: TCEA's Community-Led Growth Journey
Forj
MARCH 4, 2024
Introduction The Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) isa member-based organization dedicated to advancing teaching and learning through the use of technology. Their mission is to advance teaching and learning through the use of technology.
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Apply for the 2023/24 Community-University Engagement Support Fund
Charity Village
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Receive up to $25,000 to support community-university partnerships and projects that benefit communities across the province and advance collaborative research, teaching and learning. The funds are paid […] The post Apply for the 2023/24 Community-University Engagement Support Fund appeared first on CharityVillage.
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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
And while video games like Zoo Tycoon or online games can teach them all sorts of skills that will need to be successful adults (and this has been validated recently by a MacArthur Foundation funded study ,) I was excited to discover this wonderful list of games for change.
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How To Strengthen Both EX and CX Simultaneously
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JANUARY 7, 2024
The book’s teachings are based on exclusive research from two Salesforce studies of thousands of employees and c-suite executives around the globe, and further validated by hundreds of executive conversations and other industry research. Closer employee alignment with business goals. Greater employee satisfaction with leadership.
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