NonProfit PRO

JULY 27, 2021

One of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals' largest peer-to-peer events is the Miracle Network Dance Marathon, a movement that unites high school, college and university students in raising funds and awareness for children’s hospitals.

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Futurism

APRIL 22, 2025

Plenty of metal contestants ended up falling flat on their faces. Until five years ago or so, we didn't really know how to get robots to walk reliably," Oregon State University robotics professor Alan Fern told Wired. A picture shows the Sky Project Ultra bot receiving a gold medal which itself is in the shape of a humanoid robot.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To promote the sequel to Ready Player One — a book about a treasure hunt inside a virtual universe — author Ernest Cline has partnered with the hit kids game Roblox to re-create something akin to the plot of the original novel: a hunt for clues and prizes inside a virtual world.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 2014

Assuming at least one hour of work spent on each, I have taken away 82 business days from the universe of work! Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to remove an erroneous reference to a 99designs-run community contest to design a new Gap logo. This contest was not organised by Gap. It was a race to the bottom.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Begin reaching out to professors, graduate assistants and career centers at these colleges and universities, and attend their career fairs. You may even want to create a mentorship program between some of your current employees and computer science students at a local university. Up the ante.

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The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2013

Last spring, we successfully pitched our real time social TV analytics platform at the IC tomorrow ‘Digital Innovation Contest – TV and Film’. One of IC tomorrow’s more recent ‘Digital Innovation Contests’ focuses on fashion and is set to complete with a panel of judges on 10 July. SecondSync Eurovision social tracking stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! I’m a consultant and university professor who specializes in pitching, for crying out loud, and I still mess up! ABOUT THE #FIXMYPITCH CONTEST. Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! Are your creepy pitches spooking your supporters? Guest post by Erica Mills.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) of Maastricht University are conducting a survey: "We are investigating the effects of online social network memberships on your daily life. In particular, we are interested in the role of social network sites and receiving information about job openings."

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

The results were analyzed by CIRCLE, the youth civic engagement institute at Tufts University. A new study out by Nonprofit VOTE explored this question and found that nonprofits are able to reach the people that campaigns miss and who are not expected to vote. The study involved 94 nonprofits and 33,000 people. Get the full report here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

East Africa time / midnight Coordinated Universal time Topic: technology for social good. Coordinated Universal time Topic: tbd. Coordinated Universal time Topic: Instagram photo contests. Coordinated Universal time Topic: online activism and social media use in times of crisis. Eastern time / 1:00 p.m.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

But, they’re the only charity/nonprofit/university/organization that actually calls me for a donation anymore, and that’s surprising considering how much the nonprofit world relied on phone-based fundraising in the past. Here are our tips on promoting your matching gift to your audience. This year-end, spice it up with a phone-a-thon.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Between August 23rd and 24th, Ian Linkletter, a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), made a series of tweets criticizing a software that his school uses. Over 400 universities now use Proctorio, from Harvard and Columbia to UT Austin and Kent State. Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Why is SMS the perfect conduit for richer and more holistic consumer experiences within mobile universe? Dig deeper and that seemingly one-dimensional SMS becomes a truly interactive medium of push and pull to deliver information, tips, coupons, alerts and rewards, or engross consumers with karaoke, contests, surveys, and trivia.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Solid-state lithium metal batteries are considered “the holy grail” in the battery industry, said Venkat Viswanathan, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a technical advisor to QuantumScape. But we’re finding so much demand. The automotive case is so massive.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Kabam , the gaming company that has developed mobile games in partnership with entertainment brands including Disney, Marvel and Universal, has laid off about 7% — around 35 people — of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned from sources and confirmed with the company over email. The company has a headcount of over 500 employees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community. By maintaining a relationship with the community foundation’s staff it may unlock opportunities to connect with DAF holders during the year. It’s easier than it sounds.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The interactive session be a fun, entertaining way to learn from nonprofit social media practitioners — sages with gauges who want social good to “ruler&# the universe for a good cause! The session will strip away the mystery of measuring engagement, donor conversions, and on the ground social change. –> Vote Now !

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

The news kicks off with an appeals hearing where the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) will contest the results of the election. Things are not over,” says Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings. “We But experts say the election was always going to be hotly contested.

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Candid

JULY 16, 2024

A 2016 paper from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy notes that “financial support for Presidential or other political campaigns does not appear to decrease donations to charity.” Don’t be afraid to throttle spending in underperforming states, particularly those heavily contested in the election.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

The program is the Fearless Strivers Grant Contest , and the fund hosts it four times a year in partnership with Mastercard. The American Alliance for Equal Rights alleges that Fearless Fund is violating Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act, which states that private contracts must be made and enforced without regard to race.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Finding universal names. So the company started a Fan Art Friday contest to encourage people to send in their art to be featured in Duolingo social posts. “It brings more personality to the app, and if you’re not hearing the same voice all the time, it helps train our learners’ ears,” Hartman said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In particular, the US remains attractive to Vivi as it offers a market comprising nearly 14,000 school districts, with over 130,000 K-12 schools, and over 5,000 universities and colleges. . “Our next big goal is to be in a million classrooms as soon as possible and partnering with Quad will certainly speed that up,” he said.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Nonprofit Videos Win Big In Tufts Contest- The NonProfit Times Feb 16, 2011: "Nonprofit Videos Win Big In Tufts ContestSix nonprofit video took honors in the Tufts University contest 501c3: Capturing Change on Camera inaugural video competition.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

I’m a PhD student of the Machine Learning Group in the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. In 2009 and 2010, I participated the UCSD/FICO data mining contests. Also, on the information page of the contest, it states that “In Australia, success rates have fallen to 20–25 per cent…”. X=1 to 5) to nominal Person.ID.X (X=1

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

R , also provided by the contest organizers) achieves noticeable lower AUC of 0.81 (not shown in Figure 1). I use the topics.csv , kindly prepared by the contest organizers, to map a R package to one of the 25 LDA topics (See topic_models.R for details on running LDA, provided by the contest organizer).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 8, 2011

I found particularly helpful in the book the definitions of the following five different types of conflict and then how best to deal with each: Problems to solve Disagreement Contest Fight Intractable situation Also helpful are the "consider this" questions asked of the reader in at the end of each chapter, along with the list of "homework" to do's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

It is a partnership of UN agencies, NGOs, businesses, schools, universities, communities and individuals who all believe that we can work together to end child hunger. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest. Tell me a little about your video contest We???re Fantastic!???

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TikTok just can’t dodge the watchful eyes of the watchmen: Earlier this year, Taylor reported that a string of universities banned TikTok from devices. Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Raise the roof : Continuing to work remotely in 2023 remains a hotly contested issue in today’s workplaces. PST, subscribe here. Still with us?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

The Sitings contest invites students to propose an installation and the two proposals that win each year are awarded grants and displayed in the Museum. The Museum attempts to attract students to its impressive 8,000 piece collection with various programs and exhibitions, some more successful than others.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

I graduated on Warsaw University of Technology with master thesis about text mining topic (intelligent web crawling methods). From time to time I try to compete in data mining contests (Netflix, competitions on Kaggle and tunedit.org) — from my perspective it is a very good way to get real data mining experience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

It's been a busy week in the TechSoup universe. Submit your success stories for our next Show Your Impact contest. We just finished up our Global Summit, it's the last week of the TeleGreening campaign, and we're getting ready for N2Y4. Meanwhile, Connecting Up 2009 is going on in Sydney.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. In addition, she's currently working on her master's degree from Arizona State University in English Rhetoric & Composition, with a focus on social media. Like this article? Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

They are also running a contest : The Red Cross is also encouraging dog owners to cool off during these dog days by diving into the American Red Cross Pet Photo Pool. Get your camera ready and sniff out these instructions to enter our Dog Days of Summer photo contest. " A slightly different take on the concept of slow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This conversation was sparked by this post from Richard Becker that shares the numbers from the Pepsi Refresh Contest. In the nonprofit sector, there is no universal review mechanism to benchmark against, but Great Nonprofits is beginning to fill those shoes. Many feel the same as Craig Newmark. Respond here.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Whether a conference, a gala, or a trivia contest, you can live stream the event directly on Facebook. Nick's work with GoodUnited resulted in being named The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 2017 Distinguished Young Alumnus. . Nick received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

It's this belief that prompted Kristof to create his Win-a-Trip contest for graduate and undergraduate students at American universities. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions.

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