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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. Organization Size: Medium. Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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Deep sea craft filmed unprecedented footage of a colossal squid

Mashable Tech

What's more, research expeditions have found that ocean life carries great potential for novel medicines. There's life down there that has the potential to provide and has provided us with medicines," Jyotika Virmani, an oceanographer and executive director of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, told Mashable last year.

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Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

NVIDIA AI Blog

Scientists everywhere can now access Evo 2, a powerful new foundation model that understands the genetic code for all domains of life. By advancing our understanding of these fundamental building blocks of life, we can pursue solutions in healthcare and environmental science that are unimaginable today.

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NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing, AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

For nearly two decades, NVIDIA has advanced computing in healthcare working with researchers and industry leaders to build instruments that enable scientists to better understand life sciences, medical imaging and genomics. We built it in service of researchers and scientists as you strive to better understand life in our universe.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs that Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Species Adoptions from the World Wildlife Fund: Give a gift that helps protect life on Earth. Jude’s Children’s Hospital: Get into the holiday spirit with ornaments, decorations and other gifts that inspire hope and help fight childhood cancer. ShopKomen.com: Purchase with a purpose to help end breast cancer forever.

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The American Cancer Society Wants Your Birthday!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now we have the American Cancer Society scaling the concept of the birthday fundraiser. It's birthday fundraising on steroids with the creation of their birthday fundraising platform and accompanying social media presence. They are encouraging people to declare their birthday to cancer (and adopt a healthy lifestyle).

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Resilience is an ambitious bet to improve cancer treatment

TechCrunch

Meet Resilience , a new startup that wants to help cancer treatment institutes as well as cancer patients at every step of the treatment journey. That’s why they chose to focus on one area in particular — cancer care. Cancer treatment facilities face three issues. Cancer treatment facilities face three issues.

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