Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. The prior CEOs, who actually were mentors to both of us, have now stepped into global chair roles. My introduction to co roles started at the office level. and Fast Company.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Children and teens who volunteer tend to have better health and lower levels of anxiety and fewer behavioral problems than those who dont volunteer. This might include joining a nonprofit board of directors , volunteering more hours, or taking on a volunteer leadership role. Changing demographics The number of U.S.

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The problem wasn’t the mission or the work we were doing; it was the way we were engaging with our donors. We had open discussions about our personal attitudes toward fundraising and role-played donor interactions. Engage in meaningful conversations and radical listening.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. If you have to leave early, no problem. So, again, it’s board roles and fundraising and resource development. We’ll get them to you.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Dawn Darby from The Therapy Place People-Oriented Board Members Can Better Support EDs Board members are most effective when they engage in high-level thinking and generative conversation rather than problem-focused rehashing of minor issues and problems.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 19, 2023

I began talking with data analysts who solved business problems every day using data. Playing around with new technologies helped me to see that I still enjoyed working in data, I just had to be using the right tools and solving the right problems. This role happened to be that of an analytics engineer.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They discuss the organizations growth from its early days to its current focus on AI education and real-world problem-solving. In addition, Saini shares her journey from creating an app that helped combat a vaping crisis at her high school, to her first exposure to AI, through to her current role working on ChatGPT.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Emotions including anger, fear and guilt play a key role in the ability of activists to create moral urgency and force issues into the spotlight. But history shows that disruptive tactics have long played a role in forcing attention to urgent issues. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Confidence to initiate engagement with your staff and stakeholders and define roles and goals. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? What problems are you trying to solve? Well-defined technical and design scope and constraints. Is your website a one-person operation? Nice-to-haves.

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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 Data plays a central role in modern organisations; the centricity here is not just a figure of speech, as data teams often sit between traditional IT and different business functions.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Although technology problems were urgent and frequently mission critical. The most challenging problems centered around culture. As the tech problems subsided, people became better at communicating through the small screen. Role-playing—divide into pairs and choose a scenario where there are two points of view.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

That dramatic entrance has changed the role of CTOs. If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. The role of CTO isn’t getting easier. Be honest about this.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

Start a conversation with your board members, as well as your most passionate supporters, and ask them to create their own fundraiser to kick off your peer-to-peer campaign. Keep the conversation going by celebrating milestones, offering up support, checking in on them, and giving guidance whenever you can. Calm their concerns.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A Letter of Inquiry is a quick way to introduce your organization to a prospective funder and to open up a conversation about how a grant would make a positive impact on the community you’re serving and change lives. In describing the problem you’re looking to solve, do so in a way that evokes an emotional response.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Between taking care of Helen, making sure their young son stays upstairs in bed, and pouring honey into the ears of their influential partygoers, Rose and Sammy have many spinning plates to attend, heated conversations to be furiously whispered in their home's alcoves, and secrets to suppress. The Uninvited is an actors' movie.

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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. Would I say this in a face-to-face conversation? But here’s the thing: AI doesn’t have to feel creepily robotic or impersonal. Add context. Don’t just accept AI suggestions blindly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Commercial applications, however, are a different conversation entirely. The conversation spanned 30 minutes and includes a look at Agility Robotics’ early pitch deck. The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership. The board plays the central role of visionary. They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. You can’t rely on staffers in your organization to fill this role. Participants find guidance, innovative thinking, and the opportunity to view their roles through a new lens. Create space for conversation. It sounds simple. Observe behavior.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership. The board plays the central role of visionary. They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. We tend to focus more on what employees do than on how or why they do it.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

An ability to understand and interpret emotions can help employees have better conversations. Set goals : ECT can help organizations set realistic goals, create a roadmap for employees, and clearly instruct them about their roles and responsibilities. Build trust: Trust is vital for an organization to function smoothly.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Aside from the anecdotal evidence, the numbers don't lie: Only 19 percent of computer science bachelor degrees are earned by women, approximately 3 percent are earned by Black women, and only 2 percent of tech roles are held by Black women, according to data from the organization Black Girls Code. One that is safe, inclusive, and joyful.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Here I’ll highlight the key factors Ive seen in my volunteer engagement roles over the past 20 years and suggest practical tips for retaining volunteers. Offering time off may be out of reach for many organisations, but simply adding volunteerism to the conversation at work could spark long-term action and interest.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

The problem? Families are built on unconditional love, but workplaces operate on performance, roles, and shifting priorities. Dodging tough conversations isnt kindness; its avoidance. When companies try to force belonging, it makes employees feel like theyre the problem if they are not feeling it. But fitting in at work?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Lesson one: don’t attempt to change user behavior — instead, look for a problem that you can solve. “Rather than focus on telling a story, we found a problem and came at it hard because we knew if we found enough people with the same problem, we could build a company.”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Fundraising emails play a key role in informing your audience about your campaigns purpose, goals, and how they can show their support. Its a compelling message because it clearly outlines the problem the organization is trying to solve and how supporters can play a role in the solution. Appeal to emotion.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

In my role as a consultant, these are four core qualities that I’ve observed. I kept asking what was wrong with my staff, and I understood that they were not the problem, it was my fault. Keep the conversation meaningful with an honest discussion about strengths, weaknesses, and progress that avoids judgment.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

An assessment can uncover hidden problems and opportunities. We uncover hidden problems and opportunities. We start with a conversation. Culture, strategy, and talent play important roles. Kevin Ordonez,orgSource’s Managing Director of Digital Strategy, explains what you have to gain from an assessment this way.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

In the handful of years since generative AI became both a zeitgeist technology and common dinner table conversation topic, people across the design industriesranging from independent graphic designers to tech executiveshave landed on a curious mantra to justify its use: its just a tool.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

I’ve always regarded Garth as a forward thinker, but during our conversation, he revealed a futurist credential that surprised me. Back on earth, our discussion centered on this question: How is the role of associations in society changing and is it expanding, contracting, or being completely reshaped? Yes, he worked on space lasers!

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

Plus, the interims role was malleable and aligned with the boards objectives. The ED had been in the role for more than 10 years and indicators of dysfunction in the nonprofit continued to emerge. The interim immediately changed the flat reporting structure, creating three director roles.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Our board’s primary role is fiduciary, and they also guide our strategy. They know that we’re going to fix the problems.” It’s not a coincidence that trust is a frequent topic of these conversations. We’re a board of eight. That smaller size makes us nimble. The board doesn’t try to manage operations.

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Nucleus

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A critical and accelerating – but easily-addressable – problem Former Gartner Research VP (and Director of World Wide Technologies for American Express) Jim Sinur recently wrote an op-ed piece with direct application to the member industry.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Davidson was right: It not only transformed our conversation, but the entire nature of my day. In our conversation, he explains why our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the world are the product of the stories that we tell ourselves. I was surprised that a simple “thank you” caused them to visibly light up.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Either they’re all in from the start—“What if AI solves all our problems?”—or To help understand where AI can or should play a role, I would like to walk you through a methodology we use at Blackbaud, called the Outcomes-Based Framework. We use it to assess whether predictions and AI may play a role in solving a particular problem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

A conversation that I’ve been having over the last week is that startups are finally investing in community in a meaningful way, dedicating actual budgets to community instead of simply stealing a few dollars away from the sales and marketing team. “We Bust the myth of the pipeline problem. Market map of community tools.

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