Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. What problems are you trying to solve? Use the five steps to engage with vendors, have practical, in-depth discussions, and make smart decisions to evaluate which one will be the best partner to help you redesign your organization’s website. ?

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In the language of Google Ads, donations are one of the most valuable conversions an organization can measure. A conversion is any measurable action that a visitor takes on your website. Keep in mind, however, that you should measure meaningful conversions. Common measurements include: Time spent on your site.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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DataRobot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the final installment of this blog series examine how Machine Learning Operations ( MLOps ) allows governments to easily deploy, monitor, and update models in production, paving the way to AI with measurable results. . Evaluating machine learning model health manually is very time-consuming and distracts resources from model development.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

What’s clear is that a nonprofit’s resilience requires regular evaluation of its technology stack, the cost of letting antiquated systems linger is too great in the midst of a turbulent macro and micro environment. But how should a nonprofit approach evaluating their technology? Take AI for example. First the people.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. And Gensler rolled out its Product Sustainability Standards, providing for many in the industry a clear way to measure the carbon impact of the interior products they select.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The problems these companies are addressing are enormous, and the potential to help consumers and their families is even greater — key metrics that shouldn’t be overlooked. Three key questions can help reshape measurement and investment in early-stage startups: What is the problem being solved? What is the problem being solved?

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

LMS security involves measures to safeguard a learning management system (LMS) from unauthorized access, data breaches, disruption, modification, and other security threats. It involves measures like firewalls, encryption, and antivirus software. Read about LMS security, its importance, best strategies, and more in this detailed guide.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If most of your leadership meeting agendas include a list of problems (of course in business we call them “challenges”) to be remedied, that is not the best use of your time and is not moving your business forward. At what other point in your business year do you evaluate where you are at? To Stop Putting Out Fires.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As AI and automation handle tasks once dependent on human creativity, intuition, and problem-solving, we risk outsourcing not just labor but also our intellectual and emotional core. Reverse Improvement occurs when leaders fail to pause and evaluate whether technological progress aligns with long-term human development.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This produces a different set of problems: * How do organizations assess these solutions? 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? Whats the best approach to building public good technology?

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Model development and evaluation To develop our model, we worked with partners at EyePACS and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to create a retrospective de-identified dataset of external eye photos and measurements in the form of laboratory tests and vital signs (e.g., due to the multiple comparisons problem ).

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 18, 2025

Illustrative examples of project ideas This is not designed to direct or constrain your creative thinking about the hardest safety problems in inference-time compute. Rather, it provides illustrations of problems that might be considered both challenging and worthy of study. Example 1: Enduring Problems and New Risks.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

Trust involves creating a set of agreed-upon values that the team lives by, can depend upon, and can measure their performance against. I kept asking what was wrong with my staff, and I understood that they were not the problem, it was my fault. Trust isn’t just about modeling good behavior or making people like you.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Define the problem. Step 5: Launch, measure, and optimize It is time to launch your communications campaign.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

How to Measure the Effectiveness of your LMS for Government Business Goals GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In the world of rapidly changing information and training requirements , don’t you think it is important for your organization to be prepared for the challenges of the future? Here we go: 1.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

How to Measure the Effectiveness of your LMS for Government Business Goals GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In the world of rapidly changing information and training requirements , don’t you think it is important for your organization to be prepared for the challenges of the future? Here we go: 1.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

How to Measure the Effectiveness of your LMS for Government Business Goals Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems In the world of rapidly changing information and training requirements , don’t you think it is important for your organization to be prepared for the challenges of the future? Here we go: 1.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Holy Grail problem has been: can you really know what is happening in your blood without using things to prick your skin and draw blood out,” says Ursheet Parikh the co-leader of Mayfield’s engineering biology investment practice. That device still uses a subcutaneous filament on an arm patch to measure glucose levels.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And this is a problem. In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. The Board should also be involved in planning for accountability and evaluation of the strategic plan once it’s implemented.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We also designed improved sublinear algorithms for different flavors of clustering problems such as geometric linkage clustering , constant-round correlation clustering , and fully dynamic k-clustering. PDLP has been used to solve real-world problems with as many as 12B non-zeros (and an internal distributed version scaled to 92B non-zeros).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. What I see the most often in this section is that grant writers include a flowery narrative with a lot of information about problems.

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VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

A performance improvement plan intends to fix problems and close knowledge and skill gaps. Yet, a PIP is should not be used as a standard training assessment, nor should it be used for regular evaluations. For standard evaluations or leadership development, other tools are useful—such as VQ’s Individual Volunteer Plan (IVP).

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Note that in the paper we also explore several other problem domains, like video classification , depth estimation , and semantic segmentation. This toolbox measures three key metrics: How well do models cope with distortions (accuracy)? Shape bias evaluation (higher = more shape-biased). Cat or elephant? Car or clock?

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 26, 2023

This problem of data-efficient generalization (a model’s ability to generalize to new settings using minimal new data) continues to be a key translational challenge for medical machine learning (ML) models and has in turn, prevented their broad uptake in real world healthcare settings.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The new Apple Watch Series 6 includes a sensor that allows the watch to measure blood oxygen levels. The device is a long-awaited addition to Apple’s suite of health tools, but it tracks oxygen levels at the wrist, which can be less accurate than measurements typically gathered at the fingertip.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

Early on, skeptics questioned, “What problem does it solve?” Someone that proclaims interest in an imaginary product provides a far less reliable signal of true desire than a person that has attempted to build their own solution to the same problem. Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt and EIR at Tradecraft.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 30, 2023

The key to both is a deeper understanding of ML data — how to engineer training datasets that produce high quality models and test datasets that deliver accurate indicators of how close we are to solving the target problem. How do we solve this problem and enable quality-driven “data acquisition”?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But these programs also have serious problems, including regurgitating sexist and racist language and failing tests of logical reasoning. Not all problems with AI language systems can be solved with scale. no one at DeepMind thinks scale will be the solution [to].” no one at DeepMind thinks scale will be the solution [to].”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

So why aren’t they doing that when evaluating startup teams? Sixty percent of startups fail because of problems with the team. You can (and should) take a scientific approach to evaluating a startup team. Despite what people expect, soft skills can be measured. I will use myself as an example. my partner at CapitalT.

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DataRobot

MAY 6, 2021

Research shows that customers prefer to deal with humans, especially in situations when they experience a problem and want help solving it. Don’t force customers to use an automated system and press buttons when they just want to hear a human voice and talk to someone who will fix their problem. The Dunning-Kruger Effect. Register Now.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Real-world robot navigation in human-centric environments remains an unsolved problem. In particular, Transformers models have achieved stunning advances across various data modalities in real-world machine learning (ML) problems. We evaluate Performer-MPC in a simulation and in three real world scenarios.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Motivated by such applications, in “ Differentially Private Heatmaps ” (presented at AAAI 2023 ), we describe an efficient DP algorithm for computing heatmaps with provable guarantees and evaluate it empirically. input vectors with a small number of non-zero coordinates) with a small error as measured by the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the program R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements. . However, based on what our research showed, here are a few things I would consider when evaluating your current mission statement or drafting your first one: .

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

These help organizations track employees’ progress, measure the program’s impact, and continuously improve the program. LMS can solve this problem by providing training to any number of employees. These encourage employees to share ideas and thoughts, solve problems, and feel connected.

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