Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2016

Debbie Laskey is one of my go-to experts when I seek advice about a number of business topics, including marketing, social media, and nonprofit marketing and leadership. Currently, she works with the Nonprofit Communications and Media Network and Special Olympics Southern California. Her website is www.brandingandmore.net.

Marketing 40

Marketing Nonprofit Media Insurance 40

Alison Green

APRIL 9, 2024

This is especially frustrating if we are short-staffed. Work won’t pay for our travel to a weekend location I work at a small nonprofit and everyone on staff is being asked to work a couple of weekends each during the next few months at an off-site location that can only be accessed by ferry. I’m sorry you’re having to deal with this.

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Travel Staffing Transportation Nonprofit 116

Alison Green

JULY 27, 2022

I am an exempt salaried employee at a nonprofit. I asked my boss at job #2 if it would be possible to move me down to working one day a week after about two weeks (how far the schedule is out), and she said that she didn’t know because we’re short staffed, but she would try. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

Staffing 98

Staffing Nonprofit Manager Compensation 98

AIHR

APRIL 4, 2022

Implementing a talent marketplace platform can mean that HR lets go of some direct involvement in the internal staffing process. Fuel50 – Serves mid-size businesses, enterprises, government, and nonprofits. Additionally, managers can consider applications and make selections without involving a third party.

Inclusion 98

Inclusion Implementation Diversity Government 98

Alison Green

MAY 31, 2022

. * If your internship is unpaid, that could change the answer — unpaid internships are subject to different rules than paid employment, and need to be for your benefit rather than the employer’s (with some exceptions, like nonprofits). Cleaning up crumbs and a dirty diaper is not for your benefit. Someone is sullying our toilet seat.

Travel 98

Travel Benefits Staffing Nonprofit 98

Zenefits

JULY 9, 2022

The latest 2022 pay data from the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, and the U.S. Limited staffing (10%). The recovery from their pay losses could last a long time and slow the closing of the wage gap. What does 2022 pay data show? Leadership buy-in (15%). Time (13%).

Compensation 52

Compensation Education Onboarding Benchmarking 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Manager Nonprofit Staffing 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Taking a hard look at strategy and figuring out how it impacts staffing needs — answering the first two questions — is something every organization, large or small, can and should do. It's a model gaining appeal among nonprofits of all sizes. But it's critically important if yours is a fast-growing organization.

Banking 9

Banking Nonprofit Staffing Leadership Development 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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Scaling Staffing Operations Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, one executive director of a nonprofit told me that when she was appointed to the position, after many years in the organization, long-time colleagues stopped inviting her to birthday celebrations and other social events. He felt he no longer needed to listen to contrary opinions.

Banking 14

Banking Staffing Government Nonprofit 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Doris Buffett’s Learning by Giving Foundation partnered with Northeastern University to offer the course, which taught students how to evaluate nonprofits according to, among other things, their management and operational excellence. But good luck trying to get that kind of information from nonprofits.

Nonprofit 9

Nonprofit Staffing Human Resources Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Mission-driven by nature, Monson was inspired by his work in India to set up a separate nonprofit company called Elevita , through which developed-economy consumers can buy goods made by developing-country artisans.)

Hospitality 9

Hospitality Scaling Staffing Nonprofit 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Recruiting, staffing, and hiring-support services is a $16B industry , yet 52% of U.S. Take Moneythink , a Chicago-based financial literacy nonprofit, that pulled in a Fortune 50 business analyst to lead their expansion. employers report having difficulty filling key roles. Offer purpose and career context, and the talent will come.

Staffing 8

Staffing Nonprofit Onboarding Banking 8

Alison Green

JULY 7, 2024

” We are a nonprofit that serves homeless and working poor adults, most of whom have alcohol and drug addiction histories or who are still actively using. And for a fully-staffed department that wasn’t coverage-based, or for one that already wasn’t meeting its monthly goals with a five-day week, it might have worked beautifully.

Staffing 105

Staffing Education Nonprofit Inclusion 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members. Apollo Hospitals focuses on medical service delivery through a geographically diverse network of CSCs.

Government 15

Government Nonprofit Hospitality Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

They are: Staffing. Examples include the social enterprises in the "portfolio" of REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund), which helps nonprofits create viable businesses (in food-service, property-maintenance, extermination, recycling, and other areas) to provide jobs to disadvantaged workers. Replicating.

Scaling 19

Scaling Nonprofit Staffing ROI 19

Association Now Workplace

APRIL 1, 2025

That can include nonprofits, Muraka said, which often face significant constraints, including limited budgets, staffing shortages, and underdeveloped IT infrastructure. Moreover, smaller organizations have to deal with limited staffing, uncertainty about where to begin, or a lack of in-house expertise.

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Staffing Nonprofit Workflows Manager 88

Association Now Leadership

MAY 30, 2025

An article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review suggests one way of addressing that problem : A nonprofit board fellows program (NBFP), in which business-school students partner with nonprofits, serving as nonvoting board members.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Government Staffing Leadership Development 52

Alison Green

APRIL 16, 2025

If I opt out of team-building activities, I still have to work on those days I work for a small nonprofit with about 25 employees. That said, if covering for people who arent there means you have an unrealistic workload that day, you should talk with your manager about adjusting the expectations to match the staffing on those days.

Staffing 111

Staffing Nonprofit Manager Employee Engagement 111

Alison Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I’ve never had this requirement at any place I’ve worked as an attorney or law clerk not firms, nonprofits, or the federal judiciary. ” I don’t know if this is deliberate in order to make it look like they are still fully staffed, or just the manager not doing her job.

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Staffing Nonprofit Manager Small Business 90

Alison Green

APRIL 21, 2025

I work at a nonprofit that has been taken over by an appointee of the new administration, but I am not a federal employee. Do I have to sign a non-disparagement agreement? Our staff is being slashed, with employees who are excellent at their jobs and vital to basic operations being let go.

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Manager Administration Staffing Nonprofit 87

Alison Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While things are so chaotic and volatile, the more unflappable you can be the more you can simply roll with things like conflicting and constantly changing info, or being short-staffed, or how uncertain everything is the less seasick youll be through all of it. It’s not a great answer, I know.

Administration 111

Administration Staffing Nonprofit Government 111