Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

We’ve all heard the catchphrase, “ if we build it, they will come. ” While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. You need to have the right talent for a technical build.

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2025

While part of that dedication is inherent to the work they do and the communities they serve, there are ways that you as a funder can use your grants management system to give them back a little timeand maybe help them take a step back from burnout. For many of those efforts, the basis is an intuitive grants management system.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Thats why we specialize in helping associations build digital strategies that address inefficiencies, improve member engagement, and leverage data for growth. Outdated Technology and Manual Processes In todays digital-first world, outdated systems and manual processes are often the first red flags.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

When users ask a question, RAG-powered AI typically uses a search-engine-style system to locate relevant information it has access to, whether that’s on the web or in a private database. Then, the system can ultimately come up with a comprehensive answer to a question.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To combat these challenges, we recommend optimizing your online donation process from beginning to end, starting with your donation page and finishing with your donor stewardship process. Well show you how to do that through the following tips: Customize your donation process to your organizations needs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Organizations are not mere collections of departments, roles, technologies and processes. In contrast, bad design fosters shadow systemsunofficial ways of getting things done that undermine formal processes. A financial services firm, for example, implemented a bonus system heavily weighted toward individual performance metrics.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By advancing our understanding of these fundamental building blocks of life, we can pursue solutions in healthcare and environmental science that are unimaginable today. Evo 2 uses a novel model architecture that can process lengthy sequences of genetic information, up to 1 million tokens.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is no simple answer to the question of whether to consider a new constituent relationship management system. That lies in fully understanding the pain points in your current system. Processes: Have you fully analyzed all data processes to understand why you are limited in your current CRM? What about reports?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

We were working on a system selection and installation with a recently promoted IT manager. If her supervisor had recognized Sue’s weaknesses, she could have been coached to build the strengths she needed to succeed. The Myers-Briggs Foundation offers this perspective on the process. I’m not going to try to explain them here.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

When more than a dozen of its buildings were destroyed in the fire, the chance arose to rebuild the camp for the unique needs of the people who have been using it for decades. The camp has been comprehensively reconsidered to accommodate its visually impaired visitors and staff, many of whom were consulted during the design process.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

But last month, the school installed a new system that harvests rainwater, filters it, and then automatically supplies it to drinking fountains, the kitchen, and bathrooms. Later this year, the organization plans to also begin adding the technology to buildings in a city in Massachusetts. Over time, the system became more advanced.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And payroll and grant reporting are two areas of your financial processes where accuracy is non-negotiable. But allocating your payroll and time to your grants can be a cumbersome, manual, and time-intensive process. Building Trust with Funders Accurate time allocation is also crucial for maintaining and building trust with funders.

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Association Analytics

MAY 25, 2021

In an attempt to provide a seamless member experience and aggregate all member data in one place, associations have been working with technology partners to perform system integrations through single sign-on, pushing all of their transaction data back into the AMS. There is often ongoing annual integration support costs for EACH integration.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

Leading artificial intelligence firms including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta are turning to a process called distillation in the global race to create AI models that are cheaper for consumers and businesses to adopt.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

An eligibility quiz is an essential part of streamlining your grantmaking application process. Here are a few best practices for designing and executing an eligibility quiz, so you can ensure a more efficient and effective application process. Here are six best practices to help you streamline your grant application process.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

As a tech leader at a growing social impact organization, you know that migrating to an enterprise-scale constituent relationship management (CRM) system can be a daunting proposition. The kind of large, clean data sets AI systems require has historically been a point of weakness for nonprofit organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

Technology vendors and service providers have long touted that traditional CRM (Constituent Relationship Management) systems were the end-all-be-all for every organization, assuming that nonprofits will simply follow along. Come to us, and our CRM will cure all that ails you as an organization. The fallacy behind this approach is crumbling.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here are some strategies to ensure your infrastructure and processes are resilient. Embrace Cloud-Based Processes Cloud-based digital processes enable your staff to access necessary systems from anywhere. Take the Long View Disaster recovery is a long-term process. Here are some essential steps.

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Engadget

APRIL 14, 2025

Meta plans to start using data collected from its users in the European Union to train its AI systems, the company announced today. Additionally, the notification will link out to a form users can complete to opt out of the process. "We Today's announcement follows the initial release of Meta's new Llama 4 models.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

When construction started on a new affordable apartment building in Brooklyn, most of the work on the site happened very quickly. The process has still taken time, in part because of the bureaucracy involved with the housing lottery. The building is well-insulated and airtight. The hot water system runs on a heat pump.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and chatbots: NLP allows AI to understand, interpret, and respond to human language naturally and engagingly—to create a more responsive and interactive experience. By incorporating these platforms into mobile messaging campaigns, organizations can make the donation process as easy as a tap on the phone.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In this guide, we’ll take a deep dive into the nonprofit website design process. Enhanced credibility and trust: A professional, well-maintained website that shares up-to-date information and resources strengthens your organization’s reputation and helps build trust with your community.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

SambaNova Systems takes another tack with its SambaNova Cloud, an AI inference service. Powered by the companys specialized RDU (reconfigurable dataflow unit) processor, the service makes running AI workloads (as opposed to AI model training) faster and more efficient than on GPU-powered systems. in Ehningen, Germany.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

The experimental System Assistant feature of Project G-Assist was also released today. The System Assistant allows users to run real-time diagnostics, get recommendations on performance optimizations, or control system software and peripherals all via simple voice or text commands. Ready, Set, NIM!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

AI tools seemingly transform campaign development from a hands-on, intensive process into hit-enter ease. Think of tools like spam filters, donor segmentation algorithms, or predictive analytics that forecast campaign performance systems that excel at recognizing patterns in existing data. But whats the reality?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing. Building a website can be costly and time-consuming. Objectives of the redesign.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

GM will integrate Nvidia’s AI-powered computing systems into its next-gen vehicles, using the chipmaker’s Drive AGX platform — essentially an “AI brain” designed to boost advanced driver assistance features and autonomy, according to The Verge. This Tweet is currently unavailable.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Are we are we allowed to build tunnels? Another added: Digging is one thing, but navigating a complex permitting process after the work has been done is nearly miraculous. If you’re inspired to dig your own tunnel, dont expect the process to be easy. one commenter asked under Kalas one-year anniversary recap video.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Asking better questions that center the needs of those most affected The questions are designed to be applied to any research and evaluation method or design, at any point in the process. Explicitly address racial and ethnic inequities and identify solutions that are relevant and build on community strengths.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. Discoveries are essentially risk mitigation exercises, and they should be a separate contract from the build phase whenever possible. Why is that?

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Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The power of small grants While our grants remain small—$10,000 to $20,000—they have proven to be the essential spark to get promising projects off the ground and propel wider social and systems change. While written applications and reports are the standard in philanthropy, we heard from our community about how cumbersome the process is.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 17, 2024

It can even understand written feedback and questions from members, thanks to its ability to process human language. However, many associations struggle to engage members on a deeper level due to resource constraints or legacy systems. The result?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Thankfully, there are a few steps that you can take to remove the stress from the membership renewal process. It’s often best to develop a system that will send out a few reminders. If they need to spend several minutes filling in the form, people will often deem the process too difficult and they’ll choose not to renew.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your organization should create data security policies to guide all your software systems, hardware, user devices, and storage devices. Your team can build an expertly executed data security strategy to foster an atmosphere of confidence at your association. What is a data security strategy?

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2025

However, having the right backend infrastructure helps you make informed decisions and streamline processes that benefit the organization in the long run. Consider how the investment will impact processes or reporting, and how it will benefit key stakeholders, to make your case even stronger. Be sure to clearly lay that out.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. The value is in the process and journey. An evaluation of current security practices and systems can pay big dividends.

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2024

But with increased financial support, they could build internal capacity for structural transformation, scale their programs, reduce leadership burnout, particularly among Black women, and drive the bold, systemic change our country desperately needs,” she says. “These leaders are already delivering results in their communities.

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