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AARP Now Accepting 2025 Community Challenge Grant Applications

NonProfit PRO

AARP opened applications for its Community Challenge grant program, which aims to help nonprofits make communities more livable.

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What are the Biggest Challenges in Getting (and Keeping) Your Nonprofit’s Staff and Volunteers?

Blue Avocado

When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” We are looking forward to a second round and, although we may not have as many open positions, we can refer them to colleagues who do!

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TD Launches Fifth TD Ready Challenge Focusing Solutions for Climate Change

NonProfit PRO

TD announced that applications are now open for the 2022 TD Ready Challenge. This year, TD is seeking to support eligible nonprofit and charitable organizations that are focused on solutions to assist people and communities who may be negatively impacted by climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Google’s Gemma 3 is an open source, single-GPU AI with a 128K context window

Ars Technica

Google says the Gemma 3 open source model is the best in the world for running on a single GPU or AI accelerator. Google claims Gemma 3 will be able to tackle more challenging tasks compared to the older open source Google models. And you can tinker with Gemma 3 right now. Gemma 3, which is based on the proprietary Gemini 2.0

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

.orgSource

Adding to the complication, unless you are currently facing a challenge, risk is abstract. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations. In fast-paced digital markets, strategies that include both opportunities and challenges are essential to growth.

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

.orgSource

What can we do to ensure they have the skills to understand a challenging landscape and make the wise decisions needed for success? An open mind and a collaborative spirit are also important. The post Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges appeared first on.orgSource. But what about the other half of the equation?

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The Hidden Challenges Of Donor Retention—And How To Fix Them

Bloomerang

We surveyed 1,000+ donors and 380+ fundraisers to uncover the hidden challenges impacting donor retention and the small but powerful changes that can make a difference. A common but overlooked retention challenge is lack of reciprocity when donors dont feel recognized or appreciated. Why donors quietly disengage 1. Remove friction.