Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Embed calls-to-action within your blog content. A growing trend is to add large, visually prominent calls-to-action to the body of blog posts approximately halfway into the post. Think of your website’s sidebar as free advertising space and utilize the space for important calls-to-action and to feature key content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

By Ryan Polk , a Policy Advisor at the Internet Society , where he is primarily focused on issues related to Internet trust. In its recent survey on the State of Nonprofit Cybersecurity , NTEN found that nearly 70% of nonprofits do not have policies and procedures in place in case of a cyberattack.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

To get the best output from ChatGPT and other LLMs follow the NFPs prompting framework: N for “Needs” Define the specific needs or actions, like “I need you to please help create a SWOT analysis for our organisation…” P.S. Being polite has shown to provide better output.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Solution : Solve this challenge by creating a data capture policy. If you answered yes to any of these scenarios, your association likely has an issue with data governance. Solution : Restart your data governance efforts by ensuring you include the 5 Ps: people, process, priorities, policy, and plan. Unsure where to even begin?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This wasn’t just about having diverse faces in the room but about ensuring those with diverse perspectives had a voice in shaping solutions to the issues we sought to address. To do this, we’ve regularly surveyed our staff to identify areas for improvement and take action.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” And your perspective on technology policies, I think, will vary a little bit depending on your role in the organization. So, they were not dealing with two particular issues; they really were dealing with one. This webinar was recorded on September 24, 2020.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here are actionable steps and resources leaders at grantmaking organizations can use to ensure their operations continue smoothly and effectively during such events. Make sure employees know what is expected of them and how to communicate if they are unable to work due to connectivity issues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 31, 2025

The Real Issue: Misaligned Strategy If your community isnt thriving, the problem isnt the platformits how youre using it. Instead of generic Join the conversation, use specific calls-to-action: “Hi [Name], we noticed a discussion happening about [topic]. Having great content does not mean people will engage with it.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

TikTok has updated its privacy policy in the US to notify users that the app might, in future, collect new types of biometric information including “faceprints and voiceprints.” The company’s privacy policy was updated on June 2nd, as spotted by TechCrunch. (An An archived version of the old policy can be read here.)

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Airbnb’s chief trust officer Sean Joyce left the company after just six months in 2019 because the former FBI deputy director took issue with the company’s data sharing practices in China, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. These actions have directly lead to the persecution and detention of the group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

These simple actions can be potentially life-changing, and they are all made possible by ads posted at the top of Google Search results. Driving in-person actions such as adopting an animal . Your website must be hosted on your own domain (for example, ournonprofit.org, not ournonprofit.weebly.com) and adhere to the website policy.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Instead, it’s a tool for informing actions that advance funders’ institutional goals around diversity, equity, and inclusion—and thereby reducing funding disparities. This resulted in a review of TCE’s grantmaking policies that may have inadvertently disadvantaged and disqualified smaller budget organizations, many of which were BIPOC-led.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Many companies report low utilization of VTO, however, so nonprofits that encourage people to check their employer’s VTO policy when signing up as a volunteer can tap into this underutilized benefit.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Jessica Macy from The Do Good Collective Recruit a Serious and Engaged ‘Get ‘er Done’ Board Most of all, nonprofits need engaged, “Get ‘er Done” members willing to join committees and help the staff accomplish operational issues. They had recruited a nearly all-new board in critical professions.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The term — a recent favorite in the Twitch community that nominally refers to men who seem desperate for a woman’s attention — will be banned when used as an insult under Twitch’s upcoming revamp of its harassment policy. The new policy, first spotted by esports consultant Rod Breslau , will go into effect on January 22nd.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Organizations of all stripes were quick to issue statements confirming their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Three years later, the space between opinion and action seems to be getting wider. Three years later, the space between opinion and action seems to be getting wider. Adopt a pay equity policy.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

At one point, 270 physicians and scientists signed an open letter to Spotify demanding that it create misinformation policies to address the matter. Spotify later revised its policies around Covid-19 and misinformation in early 2022, though critics and experts argued the actual changes fell short of making a sizable impact.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The post Moving Beyond Performance: Making DEI Actionable appeared first on Blue Avocado. If you want to make your organization a healthy space for all and overcome biases and prejudices, you have to do the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work. It’s that simple.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

I think that should bein factthe number-one priority in foreign policy for every country at this point because its an incredibly important issue, and its going to be difficult to address it. Do not deploy technology whose actions you cannot reasonably foresee, she says. She also has two simpler suggestions.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Tapping into this LTM, the companys Adaptive Network Insights Studio provides a 360-degree view of network issues, generating automated reports at various levels of detail to inform and assist IT teams, network engineers and company executives.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 12, 2023

However, training such agents faces the inherent challenge of environmental diversity, since different environments operate with distinct state action spaces (e.g., the joint space and continuous controls in MuJoCo are fundamentally different from the image space and discrete actions in Atari ). Video policies generated by UniPi.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. Frame the Issues Risk isn’t on most directors’ list of favorite topics for discussion. Both directors and employees should know which policies the organization has in place and how they are enforced. But risk doesn’t always come with a dollar sign attached.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Dysfunctions We Want to Disappear These common threads highlight the systemic issues that hinder our ability in the social impact sector (what I include to be nonprofit, philanthropy, and local government) to innovate, adapt, and effectively meet the needs of communities, while also overburdening staff and reinforcing inefficient practices.

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Bloomerang

JULY 12, 2022

Call a private meeting, have a conference call, or a Zoom call to discuss a plan of action. Develop and execute a simple “accountability policy” to address the board member’s actions and behaviors. This policy should follow a very specific process. We have a zero tolerance policy. Final Thoughts.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In a statement, Twitter spokesperson Elizabeth Busby said that action had been taken against these accounts in error and was not part of a coordinated campaign. We’re expeditiously reviewing these actions and have already proactively reinstated access to a number of affected accounts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Educating the Public and Advocating about issues and informing the public about issue areas. Encouraging actions such as signing petitions or driving social media engagement. Below are the most important ones from Google’s Ad Grants Policy Compliance Guide.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

CD Projekt allegedly failed to convey that the game was “virtually unplayable,” the lawsuit states, and instead marketed it as a success with a few issues that would go unnoticed by players. The plaintiff, Andrew Trampe, is looking to include other investors in the suit to turn it into a class action.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2025

External Issues A few things in recent years have caused us all to need to adjust our budgets. Pandemics, natural and man-made disasters, economic challenges, and governmental policy and funding changes are all potentially budget-tweaking scenarios. Honest communication is the best policy. What changes should be communicated?

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M+R

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re fueled by hope rather than despair because we’re in the business of building movements, building long-term power, and working with world changing clients to pass policies that make people’s lives better. Facing the Problem For so many issues I’ve worked on, the problem is not that we, the advocates, don’t have a solution.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This user was told the company would investigate, although it failed to take action until today. Fake reviews have been an issue on Amazon for years. Regardless, his activity is not overly surprising. We want Amazon customers to shop with confidence knowing that the reviews they read are authentic and relevant,” they said. “We

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2025

Philanthropy can contribute to community resilience by supporting locally led organizations , prioritizing flexible funding, and investing in proactive initiatives that strengthen anticipatory action and preparedness. At the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), weve seen the power of community-led solutions in action.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 21, 2025

In this Gold Avocado article, a true legend in the nonprofit sector, Jan Masaoka , provides clear and direct actions that a board can take to remove a board member. But we can’t continue debating the issue. The conversation can occur in person or on the telephone; the board president can specifically request a resignation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

What is advocacy, and why it matters You have a big, bold vision to better the world with your nonprofit—whether you’re developing programs and influencing policies around education, social justice, human rights, or animal rights. This can open doors to new advocacy opportunities and strengthen influence on relevant policies.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Kick off meeting with the Impact Labs Climate Action Cohort. The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

In December, I spoke with creator Charlie White from the channel penguinz0 after he tweeted about being given a strike for an older video due to a new policy,” Wojcicki wrote. “We The new policy went into effect in December, but YouTube gave a grace period for creators to ensure none of their videos violated the new policies.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

Instantly, it works as a basic camera app launcher, just like the iPhones Action button has done in recent years. But the Action Button covered that. The latest iPhones do come with even more repair-friendly hardware and policies if the worst were to happen. This enables deeper controls by swiping across it or semi-pressing.

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