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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

By using data about each loan, including daily popularity, the Kiva team worked with DataRobot to build dozens of models to identify relationships in the data. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

What’s the use of being in San Francisco if you can’t check out some cutting edge tech conferences now and then? He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. The conference attracted 1,200 attendees.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! In Philanthropy.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . San Francisco Ballet. Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. Bernard Mauricia. Oncology and Kids. Helped co-found Oncology and Kids, Inc. Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director.

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Data and Maps: Making Place Legible

NTEN

To successfully compete for those brain cycles, we've found four characteristics of successful mapping projects, whether the products are fixed images or interactive applications: 1. GreenInfo Network helps 80-100 public interest groups a year work with computer based maps using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related technology.

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The Magic Tweet: Crowdsourcing Opera Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Pick the Right Model. TechSoup Global has been one of the leaders experimenting with type of model through its Challenges. Just tweet your line of the story to @youropera.