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5 Must-Have Productivity Software Products Nonprofits Need to Be Effective in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. Adopting the right productivity software doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.

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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

Photo: Ramp Up Reykjavk] An age-old accessibility problem Creating accessibility in any urban environment is often met with logistical and bureaucratic challenges. Yet, even with the ADA, there are still massive access inequities in our urban environments. Now, the team plans to expand the initiative to Paris and Lviv, Ukraine.

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Governance Is a Journey: How APICS Built Trust, Resilience, and Growth

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By committing to full transparencywhether sharing successes, setbacks, or tough decisionshe created an environment where candid dialogue thrived. Prepare your board chair thoroughly, ensure they understand both operational realities and strategic goals, and support them in guiding productive board discussions.

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Creating a Fair and Supportive Work Environment: A Conversation with Joan Garry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the nonprofit sector, cultivating a fair and supportive work environment is essential to ensuring the well-being of employees and fostering the success of the organization. Read on as we explore the concept of an environment of fairness, the impact of the pandemic on workplace culture, and the need for good management and accountability.

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Give Joy!

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Create a Comfortable Environment. It’s hard to be productive with a sore back. The concepts can range from technology tools to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific. I like the way this concept combines productivity with recreation. Volunteer for a task or chore that no one else wants.

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Tesla’s self-driving capabilities are now a Looney Tunes cartoon joke

Fast Company Tech

Most car companies use the technology, alongside cameras, radar, and AI, to fully assess a vehicles’ environment. He ditched radar from Tesla’s production models in 2021, against the criteria of his own engineers ,opting instead for his camera-based AI Tesla Vision system, which relies on cameras and AI alone.

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Moving from Red AI to Green AI, Part 1: How to Save the Environment and Reduce Your Hardware Costs

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This increase in accuracy is important to make AI applications good enough for production , but there has been an explosion in the size of these models. Furthermore, it costs somewhere between $1 and $3 million in a cloud environment to train. Why should you care? That’s more than 17x the average American’s footprint in one year.

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