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DECEMBER 19, 2022

You only need to watch the news to understand how challenging it can be to make kindness a way of life. It can be a challenge in self-control to avoid saying something you regret in those “I told you so” moments. People who laugh together are better equipped to meet challenges and solve problems as a group.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofits have a conversion problem. 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. Make the donation process mobile-friendly. Personalize the thank-you process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? Is a process or culture change also needed for the solution to work? Why is that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 11, 2024

These tasks include learning, problem-solving, language processing, and decision-making. ” questions, we open ourselves to new ideas, accept failure as part of the learning process, and create opportunities for innovation. Before diving into strategies, let’s clarify what we mean by AI.

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Association Analytics

MAY 25, 2021

As anyone who has done this is keenly aware, there are more than a few challenges along the way: Coordinating requirements discussions between the association, the AMS and the vendor of choice is challenging. There are many integrations, processes and customizations that, in hindsight, should probably never really have been done.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

The only problem? The process to complete the transaction took several phone calls, paperwork, and more than a week to complete. “It And while stock gifting has been limited either by lack of awareness among potential donors or a painstaking process, the prize for nonprofits is enormous. “If

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

But our board members must be able to empathize with our families, care about the children’s challenges, and want to help with their success. A people-oriented board will provide the executive time and space to process, have concern for their well-being, and set compensation based on real-world economics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

The platform streamlines important processes like onboarding, voting, and creating agendas, so you’ll have more time to discuss the issues that really matter. 5 Productivity Challenges for Board Members Nonprofit boards face a variety of challenges that impact their overall productivity.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

AI is no longer just a buzzword—it’s become a cornerstone of every modern business process. AI plays a pivotal role in the nonprofit sector The challenges related to AI bias and affordability highlight the importance of community-centered and responsible AI development.

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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. Integrate Culture with Design: Ensure that processes and systems reflect the organizations core values.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

An assessment can uncover hidden problems and opportunities. The value is in the process and journey. We uncover hidden problems and opportunities. The greatest benefit is ensuring that an organization’s processes, people, culture, and technology are in alignment with their strategic objectives.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

You want to be certain your data is secure, and you need to know that you are problem-solving with accurate information and statistics. This is not the place for independent problem-solving. Build communities where data experts share knowledge, best practices, and challenges. But what exactly is involved in data governance?

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

How to Stream and Apply Real-Time Prediction Models on High-Throughput Time-Series Data Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Most of the stream processing libraries are not python friendly while the majority of machine learning and data mining libraries are python based. However, defining windows based on event time poses a greater challenge.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

AI models process tokens to learn the relationships between them and unlock capabilities including prediction, generation and reasoning. The faster tokens can be processed, the faster models can learn and respond. This process is known as tokenization. What Is Tokenization?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

It’s a problem that has long littered the landscape in Kampala, the capital, where buveera are woven into the fabric of daily life. Can agriculture escape the plastic problem? Even for farmers who care about plastics in soils, it can be challenging for them to do anything about it.

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DonorPerfect

JULY 25, 2023

However, when it comes to thanking donors, nonprofits often encounter numerous challenges. Let’s take a look at some of these problems and ways you can address Read More » The post Gratitude Matters: Overcoming Nonprofit Thank-You Problems appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 21, 2025

But despite the vast digital transformation, increased use of social media, and focus on sustainability and equity practices since then, there remains some longstanding challenges that nonprofit organizations will always continue to grapple with. Case in point: Board management.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

But before you start adding every tool available, take some time to identify the partners and processes that add value to your grantmaking. Here are tips for building an effective partner ecosystem for your grantmaking organization, including some common integration challenges to avoid.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sandy Marsico, Founder and CEO of Sandstorm Design, described the challenge of balancing risk with growth like this: “You need the courage to take chances and the stomach to handle anxiety. Preparing a board to tolerate risk, is a sales process. But the typical association model challenges agility. Association 4.0

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The rapid growth of AI presents us with a profound challenge as well as an extraordinary opportunity—and an urgent need—to ensure that sustainability is at the forefront of its development and application. From Environmental Challenge to Potential Solution Here’s where the story gets truly exciting.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 19, 2023

Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems? Source: [link] “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G If you are in the process of upgrading an existing platform, the key is to be strategic, think about business criticality, and prioritise accordingly. Learn to embrace it. It is inevitable.

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 30, 2024

Balancing correctness, latency, and cost in unbounded data processing Image created by the author. Intro Google Dataflow is a fully managed data processing service that provides serverless unified stream and batch data processing. It is the first choice Google would recommend when dealing with a stream processing workload.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Hiring for fit is more challenging. Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this. Our interview process is rigorous. Trust me, it’s worth it.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The problem of micromanagement is quite prevalent. The problem arises from board members overstepping their roles, often thinking they’re helping or know better, when in reality, they’re interfering. By regularly sharing updates, challenges, and successes, executive directors can build confidence in their leadership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2021

The challenges of designing and deploying robust, efficient and cost-effective systems and processes, configured to your unique needs with strong governance, adoption and lifecycle management are daunting even for the largest organizations. And if you get it wrong, your tech will create more problems than it solves.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 24, 2025

It is challenging to emulate biological forms and functions with artificial machines, wrote the team. But] a promising avenue to tackle this problem is harnessing the supreme deformability of liquids while providing stable yet flexible shells around them. The liquid robots are tiny and controlled manually.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity. As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. Managing the human side of digital transformation is challenging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Data helps the reader or viewer understand that this problem needs to be addressed, and fast. Make the entire process frictionless. Knock down all obstacles, challenges, and time-sucking distractions. If you can eliminate any unnecessary steps in the donation process, do it! What will the impact be?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. What problems are you trying to solve? These should include a description of the challenges faced, the approach taken, and the final solution implemented. Nice-to-haves.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 11, 2025

Although some of todays models can generalize a skill across similar problems, they struggle to transfer those skills across more complex tasks requiring multiple steps. This is a notoriously hard problem and the results are fantastic. Thats the problem with sparse rewards.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The concept, its UX implementation, and underlying technology surfaces challenges that, in my conversations with Meta’s designers, dont seem to have any clear, categorical answer. Images: Meta] An unsolvable problem? Metas own oversight board has pointed out huge problems with the plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’re still learning about Gen Z , but they are likely to face similar challenges, and, of course, are still coming into their own from a wealth and income perspective. For this younger generation (sub-45 years old), what is the solution that helps ease the financial challenges of giving what you desire for both donors and nonprofits?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Running an organization can be a big challenge. While this can make it an invaluable management tool, it can also present a big problem. This can create major problems, as many people will lose trust in your organization as a result. It could also have serious legal problems. Learn more at findjoo.com.

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

The Bottom-Line Given that challenge, we focused on basic concepts rather than the more swiftly changing tactics. Where will it be challenged? Most of those instructions are dedicated to understanding what you type and translating it into a format the system can process. Moment” means exactly that. What are AI’s strengths?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Its value lies in solving complex, role-specific problems—like assisting a fundraiser in making the right ask. Appropriate amount: Deciding on the right amount is one of the more challenging aspects of the ask. But here’s the thing: AI doesn’t have to feel creepily robotic or impersonal.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 4, 2024

Every year when the calendar rolls over into the new year, leaders are presented with a fresh set of challenges. Even before the end of the year, we are confronted with ideas such as “We can cross that bridge after the first of the year,” or “Let’s see what the new year brings,” or my personal favorite: “That’s a next year problem!”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

At a remote elementary school in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, until recently, access to safe drinking water was a daily challenge. In the dry season, from December to April, droughts made the challenge worse. He realized that access to clean drinking water was a challenge even in areas with abundant rain.

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