Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

WhatsApp is also an excellent tool for community building with stakeholders, for crowdsourcing information and knowledge and for traditional and peer-to-peer fundraising. WhatsApp offers an appealing and efficient method of sharing documents and other materials among members of a team.

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DataRobot

JULY 21, 2022

Download the Machine Learning Project Checklist. Planning Machine Learning Projects. With only 87% of projects never making it to production, success hinges on diligent planning. With only 87% of projects never making it to production, success hinges on diligent planning. Not every project needs machine learning.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When TechCrunch last wrote about Hebbia, the company — founded by a team of Stanford AI researchers — was applying AI techniques to create search and summarization tools that could make sense of specialized domain knowledge. “[There’s more] trust and transparency around what corpus is informing your search results.”

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks. View more documents from Marnie Webb.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Throughout this post, we assume a general working knowledge of spark and it’s structure, but this post should be accessible to all levels of spark. Here’s how pipelines should be optimized for the majority of use cases… Ask if we need to do the project. After agreeing to do the project, check if the code has obvious flaws.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It can also help to document the current process flows, and then identify gaps and inefficiencies, and use that knowledge to come up with solutions. One way to foster innovation to enhance efficiency is to have your team map out their collective “dream future process flow,” and then brainstorm ways to get there.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Assembling the right team for your project is one of the best ways to set your course up for success. . Project start-up. From your key stakeholders, to your internal review teams, to the e-learning content development partner itself—multiple hands are handling this project and providing input at every single step in this process. .

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Know Who You Want Whether you are hiring a new employee or selecting staffers for a special project, a perfect fit doesn’t happen by accident. Similarly, when you are building a project-related team, document goals, and objectives and ensure that all participants understand what success looks like. I’ve seen it happen.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Heres an example you can adopt or adapt: You are a perceptive literary critic and cultural analyst with deep knowledge of literature across genres and cultures. Limitation: Some documents I tried to import, like my Readwise reading highlights, were too large to fit in a Claude Project I created for my taste atlas. Limitation: 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Maybe even using these tools to document and share back with the organization all that you’re doing. I’d love to hear how you’re using social tools to support an organization you volunteer for, or how you share your knowledge and experience as a volunteer with others! Or are you trying to promote the organization?

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Dating Apps Reporting Project, which published the investigation, said, "Match Group has known for years which users have been reported for drugging, assaulting, or raping their dates since at least 2016, according to internal company documents."

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Passion plus knowledge is a powerful hook, making people who were about to swipe stay for a while. And our most ardent volunteers are typically people who love sharing knowledge. Filter your list by: Area of expertise—Does this person have the knowledge and experience you are seeking? For one compelling reason. This is critical.

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Leadership YouTube Audience Professional 221

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Collaborating on grant-funded projects, and particularly proposal development, is essential for nonprofits. Subject matter partnerships benefit programs, organizations, and teams through shared knowledge and divided challenges. Avoid sensitive topics and dont pry, of course, but do lean in and learn about your project partners.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Wiens says the effort began with a crowdsourcing campaign to collect repair information for hospital equipment, with a focus on “ventilator documentation, anesthesia systems, and respiratory analyzers — devices widely used to support COVID-19 patients.” To be very clear: iFixit does not make money on this project.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 19, 2013

But you’ll find over the short and long term that small efficiency improvements, like agile development and project management tools, yield huge productivity gains and set the tone for your business. It allows you to sign documents via your smartphone rather than printing them, signing them manually, and then scanning it into your computer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2014

In addition to planning what is part of the project, make sure to state what is not included, to avoid scope creep. Create a spreadsheet or other document to record all of your requirements for the project. It could be a really minimal process, or it could take several days of hands-on training and documentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?" " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Write technical descriptions of HRP methods and projects at many levels of detail for academic publications, white papers, grant applications, grant reports, and internal documentation. Process, clean, and transform data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

We seek to evaluate our people and our work, and to continue to document and improve our procedures. With extensive feedback from users, we ensure our projects truly make a difference, helping to amplify the impact of our partner’s work. We value professionalism, dedication and service.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2022

Budgets can be one of the most intimidating aspects of grantseeking and nonprofit management, especially for new projects or organizations—most of us don’t have accounting degrees after all! What is a proposal project budget? . Proposal project budgets are the budgets you submit to a funder as part of a grant application.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Knowledge work in philanthropy is a big umbrella, expanding exponentially over the last decade to cover more of what grants professionals do on a regular basis. Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks.

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Question Change Grant Knowledge 116

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

When the idea took off, ZFP ran with itleading to a James Beard Award and Basque Culinary World Prize-winning nonprofit thats partnered with Chez Panisse, Noma, Subway, and 100 other restaurants, enlisted prominent winemakers, and funded $19 million in regenerative farming projects, sequestering more than 100,000 tons of CO2e. households.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

I’ve seen projects get tied in knots by the very software that was intended to keep them running smoothly. AI will undoubtedly make those projections more accurate. If you don’t have a governance strategy, developing this document should be a priority. Could some staffers benefit from additional training?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Network Build Social Media Exercise 100

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project. It’s well-documented at this point that people are hungry to engage with causes they care about in various forms. A few years ago, we had just a handful of pioneering platforms in microphilanthropy.

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API Action Open Web 186

TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.

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Collaboration Tools Raise Sweden 93

TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Fire up a web browser and it’s hard to deny it’s the best of times for knowledge work. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students. Yet working across multiple browser tabs and windows can feel like the friction-filled, frustrating worst.

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Stanford AI Lab Blog

MAY 31, 2022

In either cases, through pretraining, LMs learn to encode various knowledge from a text corpus that helps to perform downstream applications involving language understanding or generation. A challenge with most common LM pretraining strategies is that they model a single document at a time. 6 Challenges.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She asked each student where they’d saved their project. It was the same semester that Nicolás Guarín-Zapata, an applied physicist and lecturer at Colombia’s Universidad EAFIT, noticed that students in his classes were having trouble finding their documents. Documents she’s not sure about go in a third folder called “Sort.”. “As

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Files Student Structure Lecture 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

All of this activity is yielding new knowledge about how to build and support effective networks as practitioners and funders report on their insights and struggles. We now have thoughtful responses to evaluative questions such as: What are key factors for success in building a network? Real network examples.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These are projects where I’ll be using my knowledge and love of Force.com to help organizations make the world a better place. These are projects where I know the people behind them are are as passionate about serving communities as I am, and they’re not in this to return a profit to disinterested investors. .”

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Following a massive leak of source code and other internal documents — appropriately dubbed the gigaleak — previously unknown details from the company’s biggest games have steadily trickled out. The volume of new knowledge and understanding that this leak has brought is at times overwhelming.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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History Game International Data 144

sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. Building an automation project can seem daunting, but it’s simply a process of applying technology to a problem. Automation can help your staff feel more satisfied in their roles and more motivated to support your mission.

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Fundraising Knowledge Worker Gift Donor 94

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It’s hard because you have to be very disciplined about noticing and documenting your practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. View more documents from E-Mediat.

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