Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible. This campaign is a wonderful, easy way to share our work and leverage your support even further with the matching gifts that the Skoll Foundation is generously extending to the Challenge participants.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When you write a Letter of Inquiry, you want to put your best foot forward every single time, even if you already received money from the funder or know the foundation staff personally. The reality is foundations often want to spread their resources around and give new organizations a chance. Use a letter format.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. We aim to reach the the 55,000 Canadians affected by a brain tumour with a variety of tools and technology such as our website and social media communities play a large part in this reach. We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts. Website: [link].

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Argo was founded in 2016, but there’s some solid foundations there: Bryan and his team were veterans of Google’s and Uber’s self-driving groups, and they have major investments from Ford and Volkswagen. There is a convenience element to it as well, but these are safety products at the end of the day.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The email, which was sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv, voiced frustration that managers were trying to get Gebru to retract a research paper. You ask hard questions not to advance yourself but to uplift the communities we owe our foundations. The full text was first published in Platformer. “A

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Ian Runeckles ICT Development Consultant Lasa The Street Value of Outcomes Measurement and Best Practices for Nonprofits Kathryn Engelhardt-Cronk President / CEO, Community TechKnowledge President, CTK Foundation (Oh, yes, and there's an item from this blog that has been republished to the CTK guest blog.)

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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

actually has its roots at Google: the company's cofounders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, worked together at the AI lab Google Brain, where they built an early chatbot that Google, at the time, refused to release to the public due to safety concerns. The whole situation also highlights Google's weird position in the scandal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I'm trying out an experiment, and have added a couple digital ads to the sidebar of Have Fun Do Good for creative women entrepreneurs whose work I believe in: Jennifer Lee's Right Brain Business Plan, and Kimberly Wilson's eco-fashion company, TranquiliT. I often wear my TranquiliT hoodie before and after my weekly ShimmyPop!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

MindUp Program The Hawn Foundation. The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?). There are two ways this happens: the first is through brain damage, and the second is through stress. The Brain Break.

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TechNode

JULY 8, 2024

Based on current generative AI technology, achieving intelligence on par with or surpassing the human brain requires continuously expanding the scale of model parameters, a trend that necessitates an exponential increase in computational power, according to his speech. Icsmart, in Chinese ]

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 26, 2023

The emergence of foundation models offers a significant opportunity to rethink development of medical AI to make it more performant, safer, and equitable. With foundation models, it may be possible to safely and efficiently deploy models across various clinical contexts and environments. Its pre-training strategy consists of two steps.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Yuri Gurski, CEO and founder of Palta said: “Palta Brain platform, the foundational powerhouse that drives our consumer digital apps, allows for much faster scaling of both products that we envisage internally, as well as those that come to us from the market.”. Palta claims to have 2.4 million active, paid subscribers in their apps.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Offering a class in AI fundamentals will provide a solid foundation for discovery. Offering employees who show interest an introductory class in AI fundamentals will provide a solid foundation for discovery. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Make appropriate training available.

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

As founder of AtlasDaughters, director of the Marks Family Foundation, and mother to a daughter, I know firsthand the importance of educating and empowering young women in philanthropy to accelerate their giving to maximize impact. Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott. Why focus on young women in philanthropy?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

By Nate Andorsky , CEO of Creative Science , a digital agency that aligns behavioral science with design and technology to help nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven companies rethink the way that they engage with people. Our brains are built to follow stories , so highlighting individual stories is a powerful way to tap into emotions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2009

This loan was the result of a conversation I had with Kushal Chakrabarti, the founder of the Vittana Foundation. This is what I think about when I dream about Raising the Floor with technology: finding ways to meet society's most pressing problems with the brains and resources of the tech community. It makes a lot of sense to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? The above shows the methods.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Deborah Clark, who manages the NH Gives Day , received a call in spring 2020 after COVID-19 caused the cancellation of many other community events including those at the NH Charitable Foundation. The Foundation reached out and offered to deploy one of its employees to help with NH Gives Day. The results were notable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Charity Village

MAY 27, 2022

On World Neurofibromatosis Awareness Day, UHN Foundation announces an anonymous gift of $11 million in support of Neurofibromatosis (NF) research. The post Anonymous $11M gift to support and expand Neurofibromatosis research at the Krembil Brain Institute appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

The Speedy Foundation. Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. The Speedy Foundation. How To Support The Speedy Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. Or speed-geek, which is similar to speed dating.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. In reality, you’re laying a foundation for what is to come… the Mobile Web. Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. At the Durfee Foundation, we bring together nonprofit leaders from different fields to work on intractable problems in the Los Angeles region. Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower – guest post by Carrie Avery.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

Pam Holden, business analyst at University of South Florida Research Foundation. Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. Rosalinda Miguel , assistant to the director at Posse Foundation. Joan Perry , development and marketing coordinator at Brevard Schools Foundation. Foster Mindfulness.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 16, 2024

Watch video content Give your brain a break from the textual overload by watching video content produced by your organization. Remember, the first month is about laying the foundation for success. Take the time to memorize the names of board members, top partners, and primary contacts at partner institutions. You’ve got this!

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Don’t waste valuable brain power. In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? The word critical comes from the Greek word kritikos, which means the ability to judge or discern. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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M+R

MAY 17, 2022

Donald was a deeply committed colleague, a lifelong and tireless advocate, the brains behind many movements that exist today, and an inspiration and friend to many of us in the social change universe. Read time: 3 min. Donald Ross, the “R” in M+R, passed away a few days ago. . And, yes, also the reason M+R exists. . There is so, so much more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. In the words of Kevin Starr of the Mulago Foundation , “to find the impact jackpot, you need to immerse yourself deeply enough in context and methods to make a reasoned judgment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7. 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. This year's theme is climate change. 77 ways to build community in your neighborhood from Our Blocks.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

But my brain framed it in a way that makes it look like even more of a steal: You'd be getting a premium robot vacuum and mop combo that washes and dries its own mopping pads and avoids small obstacles and has a pet camera for half the price of the 2025 Roborock flagship I'm currently testing, the $1,599.99 at Amazon $1,399.99 for 21% off.

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Media Cause

MARCH 18, 2022

I tried to power through the brain fog, pain, and fluctuations in appetite, thinking these were all mental hurdles I needed to jump through. EndoFound.org : Endometriosis Foundation of America, created by Padma Lakshmi and Dr. Tamer Seckin . If I could just live a “healthier lifestyle,” things would improve, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. In 2019, I served as a facilitator for Gates Foundation Greater Giving Summit and started to work on the 2021 convening which will be a virtual convening.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

We’re seeing the rise of the meme economy on Foundation. link] pic.twitter.com/XVaUZrDoQI — Foundation (@withFND) March 9, 2021. The event is already under way, and so far the first meme, Bad Luck Brain, sold for just over $37,000. #MEMECONOMY WEEK 1 by @NyanCat 6 OG memes. 1 brand new NFT. Now you can. ).

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