Wed.Apr 03, 2024

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Research Reveals Promising Findings for Nonprofits That Prioritize Digital Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

The “2024 Digital Fundraising Benchmark Report” explored how a digital-first approach affected fundraising. Here are three takeaways.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Heather Mansfield , founder and editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good According to the 2023 Nonprofit Tech for Good Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have experienced a cyberattack (email phishing, website hacking, ransomware, social media attack, etc.). Cybersecurity at your nonprofit must be a priority in 2023. Below are five simple best practices for your nonprofit to ensure that your staff and your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns are safe and protected. 1) Use a premi

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The Essential Grants Checklist

NonProfit PRO

Download this Essential Grants Checklist for best practices for staying on top of accounting for grants and boosting boost cash flow for your nonprofit! Use this resource to track the pre-award, post-award and audit stages of the grant process. Check off each step from being awarded to the accounting and reporting.

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Is Your Older Ryzen CPU Fast Enough for the RTX 4080?

TechSpot

Today's mission is to work out how suitable the Ryzen 5600 is to use with a modern high-end GPU, such as the RTX 4080. Will the upgrade to a more powerful GPU require an entire platform upgrade?

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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New Research Shows Multi-Billion Dollar Growth in Collective Giving

NonProfit PRO

New research showed a surge in collective giving since 2016. The report also identified giving circle trends and takeaways for nonprofits.

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Meet Iron Viz 2024 Finalist Pata Gogová

Tableau

Sarah Molina April 3, 2024 - 10:38pm Danika Harrod Marketing Manager, Community Content & Events, Tableau Pata Gogová encountered Tableau for the first time four years ago. “I was working for a company that wanted to move away from the data analysis tool they were using and I was tasked with exploring other options. I landed on Tableau and stayed with it because I really got interested in the tool and began to explore more on my own.

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Microsoft reveals how much Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will cost

TechSpot

In an official blog post, Microsoft announced that organizations will have three options to extend update support for Windows 10: the traditional 5-by-5 activation, Windows 365 subscription-based activation, and cloud-based activation. The first option will be available for $61 per device for the first year, $122 in the second year.

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Google rolls out a new JPEG coding library

InfoWorld

Google has introduced Jpegli , a JPEG library for image encoding. The new library is intended to be faster, more visually pleasing, and more efficient than traditional JPEGs. Proponents of the technology said it has the potential to make the Internet faster and more beautiful. Announced April 3 and accessible from GitHub , Jpegli maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio at high-quality compression settings, Google said.

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Are return-to-office mandates actually masquerading as "quiet firing"?

TechSpot

If your company is introducing a strict return-to-office (RTO) mandate, it could be worth looking at how the company is doing overall. Though management lines usually center around the benefits of in-office working, like improved company culture and relationships, and better collaboration and communication, many workers disagree.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Corporate Sponsorship Case Study: Sponsorship Levels Gone Wrong

The Sponsorship Collective

Unfortunately, our prospects can suffer from the same misconceptions about sponsorship as everybody else. I want to share this case study with you to outline how important it is to educate our sponsors and to make sure we fully understand the needs of our sponsors before we close the deal.

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Massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Taiwan, threatens tech supply chain

TechSpot

According to NBC News, the quake hit roughly 11 miles south-southwest of Hualien at a depth of about 21 miles, and triggered tsunami warnings for Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines that were eventually lifted.

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OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork

InfoWorld

OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023 to its popular Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool, OpenTofu set out to be the “open source successor to the MPLv2-licensed Terraform,” further promising that it “will be community-driven, impartial, layered and modular, and backward-compatible.” Hugely promising, but extraordinarily difficult to pull off.

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"Content Warning" is the latest Steam hit to suffer from server issues

TechSpot

A five-person indie studio launched a comedic multiplayer horror game on April Fools Day with a unique promotion. Due to the project's funny and intriguing gameplay, the gamble paid off, resulting in millions of players on day one.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop

InfoWorld

Apache Spark defined Apache Spark is a data processing framework that can quickly perform processing tasks on very large data sets, and can also distribute data processing tasks across multiple computers, either on its own or in tandem with other distributed computing tools. These two qualities are key to the worlds of big data and machine learning , which require the marshalling of massive computing power to crunch through large data stores.

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Innovative sand battery can heat entire town for a week

TechSpot

A sand battery uses sand or sand-like material as a medium to store energy as heat. Its core purpose is to serve as a high-capacity reservoir for surplus wind and solar energy. The unit consists of an insulated silo filled with sand, and is outfitted with heat transfer pipes and.

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How can staff take care of themselves while changing the world?

Big Duck

Learn the biggest challenges right now with workplace well-being within the nonprofit sector here in the US.

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Amazon is dropping "Just Walk Out" technology from its grocery stores in favor of Dash Carts

TechSpot

Amazon's senior vice president of grocery stores said the company is moving away from Just Walk Out technology and "sprucing up the stores across the board," reports The Information.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Rust memory safety explained

InfoWorld

Over the past decade, Rust has emerged as a language of choice for people who want to write fast, machine-native software that also has strong guarantees for memory safety. Other languages, like C, may run fast and close to the metal, but they lack the language features to ensure program memory is allocated and disposed of properly. As noted recently by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, these shortcomings enable software insecurities and exploits with costly real-world conse

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Intel says past mistakes contributed to its foundry business losing $7 billion last year

TechSpot

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger warned investors that the worst is yet to come. He expects Intel's chipmaking business to have its worst year of losses in 2024, adding that it won't break even on an operating basis until about 2027.

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Motivating Nonprofit Boards: How To Foster Board Engagement

OneCause

A motivated board of directors is a powerful force for any nonprofit. Use these strategies to reignite your board’s passion and motivate them to succeed.

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Most gaming time is spent on older titles like Fortnite and Minecraft, report says

TechSpot

According to Newzoo's recently published 2024 PC and Console gaming report, gamers spent most of their time on a handful of popular evergreen titles throughout the last couple of years. The analysis also projects relatively sluggish industry growth through the middle of this decade.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Sponsorship Realities Every Sponsorship Property Needs to Know

The Sponsorship Collective

I recently did a presentation for a group of fundraisers, community centre CEOs and sponsorship sales professionals in the sport and for-profit space focused on sponsorship realities that every sponsorship property needs to know. In today’s post, I am going to share the insights from that invite-only presentation.

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Snapdragon X Elite is faster than Intel and AMD flagship CPUs in Geekbench

TechSpot

An unannounced Lenovo laptop powered by the Snapdragon X Elite SoC popped up on Geekbench (via @techinamul) earlier this week with model number "4810UV0100." The device racked up an impressive 14,254 points in the multi-core tests and 2,427 points in single-core benchmarks, both of which are higher than or at.

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Full-stack web development with HTMX and Bun, Part 1: Elysia and MongoDB

InfoWorld

Bun and HTMX are two of the most interesting things happening in software right now. Bun is an incredibly fast, all-in-one server-side JavaScript platform, and HTMX is an HTML extension used to create simple, powerful interfaces. In this article, we'll use these two great tools together to develop a full-stack application that uses MongoDB for data storage and Elysia as its HTTP server.

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FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system

TechSpot

The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition to allow companies to use facial age estimation (FAE) technology to obtain parental consent when collecting data from children under 13, a requirement for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The FTC dismissed the application without prejudice, meaning the petitioners can re-file.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.