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Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

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Practice Good Stewardship Even if your digital resources are in order, a data governance policy is an important piece of responsible stewardship. While a policy that restricts access might keep your data safe, it also builds a wall around that wealth of information. Include benchmarks in goals and KPIs.

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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

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However, this is not a universal benchmark. Find the Right Number for Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) Workgroup suggests that the minimum operating reserve ratio at the lowest point during the year should be 25 percent, or about three months of the annual operating expense budget.

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Muslim Giving 101: An Introduction for Fundraisers & Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is this idea that propels the work of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Recently, Lake Institute paired up with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) to learn more about American Muslims’ giving practices.

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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

A board diversity policy amplifies what is expected of board members and describes how people who have been historically marginalized can participate effectively as board members, as mentioned by Kathleen Buse, Ruth Sessler Bernstein and Diana Bilimoria in their article " The Influence of Board Diversity."

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Visual language maps for robot navigation

Google Research AI blog

To explore this, we collaborated with researchers at the University of Freiburg and Nuremberg to develop Visual Language Maps (VLMaps), a map representation that directly fuses pre-trained visual-language embeddings into a 3D reconstruction of the environment.

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What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

NVIDIA AI Blog

The paper, with coauthors from the former Facebook AI Research (now Meta AI), University College London and New York University, called RAG “a general-purpose fine-tuning recipe” because it can be used by nearly any LLM to connect with practically any external resource.

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The most innovative companies in business services for 2025

Fast Company Tech

June, the company completed a $60 million funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from Thrive Capital, Bond, Conviction, and a number of individuals, including Dylan Field, CEO of Figma. The companys pricing begins at $24 per month for individual creators, with business subscriptions starting at $89 per month.