Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

But this year, bag designers are eager to create bags that make a statement, while also improving women’s lives with useful features. In some ways, these startups changed the entire universe of bag designs. Now, functionality is table stakes for bag designers, says Karla Gallardo, co-founder and CEO of Cuyana.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

Create a Timeline with Milestones and Deliverables A well-structured timeline provides clarity and focus. How.orgSource Can Help: We help associations design timelines that keep projects on track while celebrating progress toward future readiness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2023

By designing emails with clear and well-structured content, nonprofit organizations can ensure that everyone can engage in important conversations, receive essential information, and participate in your mission. Here are three areas where you’ll want to check for accessibility.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

On the Friday after Christmas, OpenAI published a blog post titled "Why OpenAI's structure must evolve to advance our mission." Critically, B Corp status isn't a designation with the weight of law, or even an industry-wide group, behind it it's a stamp of approval from this specific nonprofit. Why is OpenAI pursuing a PBC structure?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

To support this shift, I developed a structured approach that helps leaders pause, reflect, and see things differently before diving into the next wave of demands. To implement this, designate a specific time each week when you are completely unreachable. Another helpful practice is maintaining a “Reverse To-Do List.”

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2025

Building Culture: Designing an Environment Where People and Ideas Thrive Culture is what defines how your organization feels, operates, and evolves. It must be supported by structures, systems, and people who are equipped to act. Thats the foundation of momentum. Its reflected in every interaction, process, and decision.

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InfoWorld

MAY 16, 2024

In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query language that could be used to manage and sort data. SQL was designed and then adopted around databases, and it has continued to grow and develop as a way to manage and interact with data. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

How do we know whether we’re asking the “right” questions, in the “right” way, when designing and evaluating programs? These questions can help design research and evaluations that are more inclusive when determining what is studied, how it is studied, and how the findings are used within nonprofit organizations and beyond.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Construction workers for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority were photographed removing a bench on the station’s platform and replacing it with a curving metal structure. Lighting is being integrated into their design, as are technology elements like charging infrastructure and interactive screens.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Structure Donation Forms Around Specific Relief Efforts One way to mobilize support quickly is by structuring your donation forms to highlight specific relief efforts. You may decide to create a designated disaster relief fund or ask donors to donate to a general fund.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

By modernizing its fleet with a variety of design improvements, Amtrak is making a play to attract more Americans to train travel instead of flighta step toward its ultimate goal to revitalize Americas passenger rail system and double ridership by 2040.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

By integrating AI into core nonprofit work and involving communities in designing the tools, organizations can increase efficiency and address the needs of marginalized communities in the face of rapid technological change. These difficulties stem from factors such as grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

The mission was designed to create a "map of the large-scale structure of the universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky," per the agency's website.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We also understand that your expertise lies in your mission rather than your technology, so designing or revamping your organization’s website may be a little intimidating. In this guide, we’ll take a deep dive into the nonprofit website design process. Design your website’s theme and basic pages.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Software giant Autodesk created Total Carbon Analysis for Architects, a digital tool that makes the evaluation of embodied and operational carbon far simpler and more intuitive than it had been for most designers. A key element of the design is its green paseo, located on a former adjacent roadway, which hosts a weekly farmers market.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While a high-level technical strategy sets the direction, technical design and architecture are what bring the vision to life. Technical design governs how systems interact, how data flows across platforms, and how individual components work together to deliver seamless, effective solutions. Read Part 1 here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Well-defined technical and design scope and constraints. Together, the data from analytics and user feedback can help inform improvements, structure, and enhancements to your redesigned website. Next would be technical and design requirements.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 31, 2023

A well-designed bid sheet can both serve as a data collection tool and a way to catch auction participants’ attention. For example, you could print them on colored paper or add a colorful header design to a white background. The post How to Structure Your Nonprofit’s Silent Auction Bid Sheets first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These programs are often ineffective because they do not address the unique needs of Black-led organizations such as funding disparities, budgetary constraints, lack of operational support and access to the same networks as their white peers, and the broader structural barriers that Black leaders face, including anti-Blackness.

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TechSpot

JULY 22, 2024

But when they contract, the tiles lock together into a sturdy structure that's over 350 times more rigid. When the fibers are loose, the tiles can move freely like the links of a chain. Read Entire Article

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

While the facade is in place on site, the overall structure is still a work in progress as ticket machines and transportation card readers still have to be installed ahead of its official July opening. Image: Serendix Inc.] Photo: Serendix Inc./Neuob

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

Many organizations face resistance to change and rigid structures , rooted in a culture of adhering to traditional methods and relying on outdated processes, such as specific research methods, requests for proposals (RFPs), and typicaland at times wastefulprogram design. This rigidity fosters resistance to innovation.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The insiders didn't state exactly how many playbacks a track would need to hit to start generating revenue for the rights owner, but did say it is designed to demonetize songs that currently earn less than five cents in royalties per month. Read Entire Article

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

This is the first in a four-part blog series, Building Trust and Credibility Through Design, based on a webinar led by Forum One’s Vice President of Design. Understanding audience needs is the core of good design. Watch the webinar. But how do you build trust like a team?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Many worried that smoke from the Eaton wildfire that destroyed more than 9,000 structures and killed 18 people may have carried toxins , including lead, asbestos and heavy metals, into their homes. But they struggled to convince their insurers to test their properties to ensure it was safe to return. .

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Creative Digital Brand Experience The message, tone, and design direction that will unify your new ecosystem of digital products. We often find that a great complement to any digital transformation strategy is a well-thought-out design system.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

He also specifically mentioned visionOS, which runs Apples wildly expensive ($3,500) Vision Pro headset, as an inspiration for the new design. In 2014, OS X Yosemite largely brought over the flatter design from iOS 7 that removed skeuomorphic elements that had littered iOS and the Mac for years. This rumor could definitely have legs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The company behind it, Anysphere , made the smart design choice of building the UX based on Microsofts Visual Studio Code, a familiar programming environment. In 2024 DeepMind expanded its AlphaFold AI system to model how proteins interact with other cell structures, including DNA, RNA, and small molecules that are often used in drugs.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

While talent intelligence platforms (TIPs) serve an important purpose in identifying skills, they are inherently limited and never designed to address the fundamental question: How is work itself structured and how is it changing? Members pay annual dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership opportunities, events and more.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. GrantAssistant’s full team, located in Washington, D.C.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Smartphones have been around long enough that, to the casual observer, their designs seem to have hit a plateau. No one complained much about the iPhone 6S’s structural integrity, but iPhones kept getting thicker, topping out at the 8.3mm we see with the current iPhone 16 Pro. It happened to me.) Maybe thats the right tradeoff.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 10, 2023

I mean how do you know the right design? This underscores the importance of thinking carefully about how we design models, not just on our own in dbt, but collectively with all of our stakeholders, to make sure the model is accurate and effective , and we don’t waste our time building each model 4–5 times before its useful.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) designed a "material-like" collective of programmable micro-robots, which can behave like a fluid or bond together to create new solid structures. The technology could lead to the development of a new sub-field of robotics. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 7, 2024

8) Ad assets Complying with the Google Ad Grants policy , your campaigns should include a minimum of four sitelink assets, two callout assets, and one structured snippet asset. 10) Adjust campaign structure To ensure compliance with Google’s policy, consider adding more ad groups and ads within each ad group.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 24, 2025

On the Move The team pitted these enhanced liquid robots against traditional liquid marbles in a kind of playground with paper-covered foam structures and pools of water. Liquid Bot Mission To fully test the robots, the team designed a mission where two robots worked together. One bot picked up a chemical toxin locked behind bars.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

And, how do these non-traditional digital makers get access to the resources to gather core needs, structure data in ways that serve civil society, and describe and measure impact? Thinking about a framework is, so far, based on the structure defined in Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schanks Power to the Public ([link].

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Candid

OCTOBER 22, 2024

structures to increase information sharing and accountability when donors abuse their power toward staff or volunteers) and unlearnings (i.e., structures to increase information sharing and accountability when donors abuse their power toward staff or volunteers) and unlearnings (i.e.,

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