NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2025

Native communities receive less than 1 percent of philanthropic funding, and Native-led organizations receive roughly only half of that, according to the First Nations Development Institute. ” The report is broken into three parts that address “why,” “how,” and “whom” to fund. rail-container).hide();

Community

Fast Company Tech

JULY 21, 2025

Impact-first capital: A new model for financial inclusion Building on early successes, institutional capital has proven effective in scaling refugee lending globally. This model encourages a shift in perception; refugees are no longer liabilities, but valuable contributors to the local economy.

Lesson

Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Based on my 25 years experience working in global development, here are five tips to help nonprofits be ready to respond to unforeseen challenges. Secure multiple funding streams No money, no mission, the saying goes in the nonprofit sector. Yet, most nonprofits build business models that rely on one or two major funding sources.

Challenge

Candid

MAY 20, 2025

Federal funding has long been the backbone of psychological research in the United States, supporting a wide array of studies from cognitive neuroscience to mental health interventions. At the American Psychological Foundation (APF), were engaging in ongoing conversations with researchers and organizations who have lost federal funding.

Research

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It’s been estimated that 30% of annual giving occurs between GivingTuesday and December 31, and more than 25% of nonprofits raise nearly 50% of annual funds via year-end monetary donations, according to authors of the Recurring Giving Report. According to Celeste Flores, director of the U.S. Giving habits vary by generation and demographics.

Donor

Candid

JUNE 24, 2025

arts and cultural organizations have faced a global pandemic, inflationary pressures, shifting audience behaviors , and changes in public policy and government funding. Government funding—which had already begun to decline following the end of pandemic relief programs —dropped by 26%. Since 2019, U.S.

Arts

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Donor-advised fund (DAF) disbursements to charitable organizations declined 1.4% The growth in charitable assets under management is attributable in part to gains in global financial markets. The National Philanthropic Trust began tracking donor-advised fund data in 2007. during 2023 to $54.77 billion in 2023, a 9.9% in 2022.

Sponsor

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

While the organization still builds the basic models in areas that dont have electricity, most projects are now more complex, using sensors to run automatically and switch between a utility water sourcesuch as a pipe running to a village welland stored rainwater. . There’s global interest. he says.

Nepal

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

After 23 years as part of advertising and marketing services holding company IPG, creative agency R/GA bought back its independence through a new partnership between R/GAs global management and private equity firm Truelink Capital. R/GAs current major global clients still include Google, Samsung, Moncler, TurboTax, Nike, and Eli Lilly.

Google

Candid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

From my vantage point at Philanthropy Together , a global initiative to scale and strengthen practices of collective giving, its clear more than ever, that we must unite and evolve our collective giving efforts. There are lessons to be learned from giving circles that philanthropists globally can use to strengthen collective action.

Action

Fast Company Tech

JULY 17, 2025

Its AI model helped target interventions five times more efficiently than traditional outreach methods. Climate change, inequality, and global health challenges need solutions that can reach millions, not thousands. The next big leap in social impact will most probably come from funding the impact builders.

Nonprofit

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. There are also innovative approaches to fund resilience efforts that can include insurers. Many working-class families lost their homes , businesses, and jobs.

Los Angeles

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

From funding uncertainty to overlapping natural disasters to the possibility of another global pandemic, the modern grantmaker must be prepared for a variety of challenges. The organization changed its model to provide digital payments and paying its grantees directly.

Community

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Globalization has brought economies and cultures closer together, but it has also heightened geopolitical instability, exposing businesses to political uncertainty and unpredictable international relations. Meanwhile, resource scarcity, the rise of disruptive business models, and shorter product cycles require continuous innovation.

Leadership

Candid

MAY 5, 2025

These groups often face multiple barriers such as distrust of financial institutions, lack of sufficient funds, limited connectivity in rural areas, lack of identification documents, and the resulting high transaction costs, which limit opportunity for economic participation for those who need it most.

Digital

Blue Avocado

JUNE 10, 2025

While some organizations have benefited from increased flexible funding and adapted to more efficient virtual work models, others continue to grapple with financial instability, increased demand for services, and difficulties in volunteer recruitment and staff retention.

Change

Fast Company Tech

JUNE 23, 2025

Among its members are Google’s head of AI Jeff Dean, board chairman and Turing Award winner Dave Patterson, and Joëlle Pineau, a professor at McGill University and the Quebec AI Institute (Mila), and former Global VP of AI Research at Meta (FAIR). Experts from across the university were brought in to offer fresh perspectives on the work.

University

TechNode

MARCH 13, 2025

As China pushes for leadership in robotics, this launch strengthens its position in the global humanoid robotics race. For the secondary development needs of research users, the model also offers full access to motor, sensor, and motion control interfaces, along with development guides and sample code, UBTECH added.

Research

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its been gradual, but generative AI models and the apps they power have begun to measurably deliver returns for businesses. Google DeepMind put drug discovery ahead by years when it improved on its AlphaFold model, which now can model and predict the behaviors of proteins and other actors within the cell. billion valuation.

Companies

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Last June, global architecture and design firm Gensler named Elizabeth Brink and Jordan Goldstein as co-CEOs, succeeding Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins, who jointly led the company for nearly 20 years. and Brink is in Los Angeles), and why the co-CEO model isnt for every company. and Fast Company. JG: We have about 300 co-leaders.

Leadership

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. Lambda Labs new 1-Click service provides on-demand, self-serve GPU clusters for large-scale model training without long-term contracts. in Ehningen, Germany.

Companies

Recode by Vox

JUNE 5, 2025

Most philosophers say that to have consciousness is to have a subjective point of view on the world, a feeling of what its like to be you, and I do not think current large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have that. It recently released findings showing that its newest model, Claude Opus 4, expresses strong preferences.

Research

Fast Company Tech

JULY 17, 2025

Together, they were building a venture-backed rocket ship for impact—designing for durability, scaling a global supply chain, and figuring out how to finance solar for families without access to banks. Its pay-as-you-go financing model has unlocked solar access for millions of low-income households.

Sierra Leone

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Smartling s new AI-powered toolkit reduces translation turnaround times while delivering accurate results for companies engaged in global commerce. February 2024, as part of the ongoing expansion of its generative AI-powered Firefly platform, Adobe released a beta version of its new Video Model to the public.

Business

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom thats reshaping almost every facet of the business world, companies are competing in an arms race to build the best and brightest models and fully embrace the nascent technology, whether thats as a product or service for customers or as an integralcomponent of their organizations processes.

Data

TechNode

JUNE 5, 2025

Known for its AI agent capable of executing complex tasks, Manus quickly rose to prominence after launching earlier this year, shortly after DeepSeek made waves with its affordable AI model. Manus ]

Video

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Check out our projects with World Help : World Help: A DNL OmniMedia Case Study World Help is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting global poverty and providing humanitarian aid to vulnerable communities worldwide. Few nonprofit marketing consultants offer as wide a range of services and support as we do. Want to see our work in action?

Consultant

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 1, 2025

Rumschlag shares that their model doesnt allow users to store data anywhere: Were not allowing users to store the chat. However, these privacy policies present funding challenges, limiting the platforms ability to scale because theyre often unable to show the donors the impact on the same scale as other organizations.

Advocacy

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 6, 2025

In a study conducted from June 2021 to May 2022 by EAB Global , a marketing research organization, they found by surveying 120 higher education advancement leaders that the average vacancy rate was 14%. When compared to the global average of about 6.9% across all industries, that is a staggering statistic.

Donor

Fast Company Tech

MAY 13, 2025

And it might be a model for other communities that are trying to recover from disastersthough it also raises questions about the cost of building temporary housing. The Hawaii Community Foundation also contributed $40 million from funds collected from global donors.)

Hawaii

Fast Company Tech

JULY 18, 2025

Sociologist Firuzeh Shokooh Valle provides examples of worker-owned technology cooperatives in her 2023 book, In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics in the Global South. a technology company that describes itself as “proudly” not funded by venture capitalists. In Los Angeles, there’s Chani Inc., Raised eyebrows.

Internet

Fast Company Tech

JULY 17, 2025

In 2025, we’re facing a similarly volatile environment, with global economic and political uncertainties and a significant decrease in venture funding, making these lessons more relevant than ever. That experience forever changed how I thought about fundraising for future companies.

Advice

Fast Company Tech

JULY 25, 2025

The Business Roundtable’s CEO Outlook Index recently dropped to its lowest level since 2020, reflecting widespread hesitation amid global volatility. We live in a global market. The global environment is unpredictable. We need to be clear-eyed about what happens if global investment slows. It’s understandable.

Strategy

Fast Company Tech

MAY 28, 2025

In Nepal, where seven out of every 10 cars imported last year was an EV, BYD’s electric models vie with those from Tata, an Indian brand. Around 60% of new car models sold in China are now electric, five times more than what’s available in the U.S., Theyre global companies, so theyre not just planning for the U.S.

Detroit

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Francis of Assisi as a model Francis lived in the Vatican hotel instead of the Apostolic Palace, wore his old orthotic shoes and not the red loafers of the papacy, and rode in compact cars. He consistently chose to visit poor countries where Christians were often persecuted minorities, rather than the centers of global Catholicism.

Argentina

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Venture capital isnt just funding innovation; its shaping what kind of innovation is possible. Then, seemingly overnight, they became billion-dollar global giantsexcept by then, their exploitative business models were too big and too profitable to unwind. In the venture model, companies arent built to be stable.

Hype

Fast Company Tech

JULY 21, 2025

According to various estimates, art crime is among the highest-grossing criminal enterprises globally, trailing only drugs and weapons trafficking. Easily accessible AI models can now produce deceptively convincing works in minutes, often indistinguishable from originals to casual observers. of that stolen work is ever recovered.)

Arts