Candid

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Earlier this month, Candid released a new version of its taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (PCS). What are the benefits of Candid’s updated taxonomy? New organization types will facilitate more nuanced analyses of funding and other trends. What does it take to update Candid’s taxonomy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

Almost four years ago, I wrote my experience as a participant n a design-thinking lab to give input on a digital strategy for a philanthropy. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute. I even facilitated design labs to help with the research for my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I admit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. To cite just two interesting efforts: STRIVE is layering the use of robust data platforms on to local community organizing and social service delivery in Cincinnati and other cities.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Facilitating intelligent funding connections (coming soon.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 30, 2025

I survey an array of possible ways that an alignment MVP path might fail (see taxonomy in the diagram below). Heres the full taxonomy Ive just laid out. [20] This recent list of technical research directions from Anthropic is a good illustration; and see, also, this recent RFP from Open Philanthropy. [38]

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