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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

.orgSource

Developing a consistent format that allows for easy comparison across months and years. Don’t Forget Policies and Procedures There’s more to oversight than reading the financial statements. Be sure to review important policies and procedures. Eliminating unnecessary details. Labeling headings clearly.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

By comparison, the rate of financial hardship at retail trade nonprofits (e.g., What resources and policies do hospitals and credit unions employ that can also be applied to retail trade and social assistance organizations? We also need consistent data and policy solutions.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

The width of a human hair, for comparison, ranges from 20 to 200 micrometers. Data from microplastic analyses can inform health recommendations and policy decisions, so its important for the people making those calls to know how reliable the analysis is. Most scientific studies focus on microplastics in water.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. It’s also allowed them to find a new audience that are not as familiar with their policy issues.

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Developed vs. Developing Nations: A Crypto Policy Comparison

Medium Technology Section

The invention of cryptocurrency isn’t only limited to modern technology alone: it has also changed the investment, innovation, and… Continue reading on Medium

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Performer-MPC: Navigation via real-time, on-robot transformers

Google Research AI blog

Recent work that uses Transformers to encode robotic policies opens an exciting opportunity to use those architectures for real-world navigation. For each scenario, the learned policies (EP and Performer-MPC) are trained with scenario-specific demonstrations. Comparison of the Performer-MPC with Regular MPC on the doorway passing task.

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Jerry raises $75M at a $450M valuation to build a car ownership ‘super app’

TechCrunch

The Palo Alto-based startup launched its car insurance comparison service using artificial intelligence and machine learning in January 2019. Agrawal told TechCrunch that the company is on track to triple last year’s policy sales, and that its policy sales volume makes Jerry the number one broker for a few of the top 10 insurance carriers.

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