Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From the outset, our founding mothers created an alternative model of grantmaking that involved participation from community members and deep trust in their grantee partners. Forty years later, we remain an influential intermediary funder that raises funds from institutional grantmakers and individual donors.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2025

Lack of Entrepreneurial Thinking Unlike for-profit businesses, associations tend to rely on stable membership dues and predictable funding streams , which can limit strategic innovation. Encouraging an Entrepreneurial Mindset To foster a culture of innovation , the organization: Encouraged staff to explore new advocacy and engagement models.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 6, 2021

The conventional wisdom in today’s health insurance marketplace holds that nonprofits should not consider a self-funded health insurance model because cash flow concerns make such a plan too risky. This notion is false, and it has been perpetuated for years by both the insurance carriers and the broker community.

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TechNode

MARCH 3, 2025

Chinese AI startup Zhipu announced today that it has raised over RMB 1 billion ($140 million) in a new strategic funding round. Investors include Hangzhou government-backed firms, with the funds aimed at advancing Zhipus domestically developed GLM foundation model and expanding its AI ecosystem. million) in funding on Dec.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2020

The digital sponsorship model is scalable and can evolve into so many different custom opportunities! The post How Nonprofits Can Use Livestreaming to Raise Funds Through Sponsorship appeared first on Nonprofit Tech for Good. For example, a sponsorship breakdown for a sponsored livestream series: Staff Time = $1,000.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Now were introducing AI tools to recommend new funders and funding opportunities personalized to your needs, eliminating work that might have taken hours and surfacing opportunities fundraisers might not have discovered on their own to help fundraisers find what they need even more quickly and efficiently. What do you think?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Tomorrow, NPRs CEO Katherine Maher goes before a DOGE congressional subcommittee to defend the public media outlets case for federal funding. Maher gives a preview to her testimony, sharing how funding cuts would impact Americans broad access to crucial news and information, particularly in rural and local areas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Indian fintech KreditBee has raised an additional $100 million in a funding round, it said, as the lender looks to scale its business in the South Asian market. The new cash infusion is part of the larger Series D funding , which KreditBee said has now closed at $200 million.

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

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. We raise significant funds from the U.S. Theres been endless talk about diversification , yet it remains elusive.

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InfoWorld

JULY 2, 2024

To address this, today we're introducing a new initiative to fund evaluations developed by third-party organizations that can effectively measure advanced capabilities in AI models.” “Developing high-quality, safety-relevant evaluations remains challenging, and the demand is outpacing the supply.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Machine learning is exploding, and so are the number of models out there for developers to choose from. While Google can help, it’s not really designed as a model search engine. Today, the early-stage startup announced a $1.64

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Now a startup that is building voice skins for different companies to use across their services, and for third parties to create and apply as well, is raising some funding to fuel its growth. Its previous investor SkyDeck Fund and a private investor, vice president of finance at DoorDash Michael Kim, also joined the funding.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

As traditional funding models shift and societal needs evolve, nonprofits are being called upon to adapt and innovate to create lasting change. This increased need is coupled with a potential shift in funding priorities, as philanthropic organizations and governments allocate more resources to address climate-related emergencies.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk said in a post on X, adding that the combined company would be valued at $80 billion. Neither X nor xAI immediately responded to a request for comment. Musk in February made a $97.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

ChatGPT , for the uninitiated, is a chatbot-like technology trained on large language models (LLMs) that can generate essays, poems, lyrics, articles, and more from simple natural-language instructions. It has also previously launched a dedicated AI fund , targeting startups building AI smarts on top of Salesforce.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. What is Fund Accounting? Many receive a combination of both.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Donor-advised fund (DAF) disbursements to charitable organizations declined 1.4% The National Philanthropic Trust began tracking donor-advised fund data in 2007. The Donor-Advised Fund Report is compiled with data from 1,140 charitable sponsors that reported assets in any year from 2019 through 2023. during 2023 to $54.77

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. The first grants are to be awarded later this year.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Then, that information is fed to the underlying AI model along with the user’s query and any other instructions, so it can use it to formulate a response. Hebbia announced a $130 million Series A funding round in July and claims clients like the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Kolena, a startup building tools to test, benchmark and validate the performance of AI models, today announced that it raised $15 million in a funding round led by Lobby Capital with participation from SignalFire and Bloomberg Beta.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

A well-funded AI lab with a deep bench of research talent is releasing a powerful new model that generates high-definition video for the film and advertising industries. That compromises the models understanding of fine-grained detail, leading to uncanny or distorted outputs (like misrendered fingers).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

Fiscal sponsors generally take on the responsibility of oversight, managing and distributing funds, and other back-office tasks for the organization they sponsor. There are seven different models of fiscal sponsorship to choose from, each with its own guidelines, rules, and regulations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

” The tranche, co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, is a big vote of confidence in Hippocratic’s technology, a text-generating model tuned specifically for healthcare applications. “The language models have to be safe,” Shah said. But can a language model really replace a healthcare worker?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

How does someone test an idea for a nonprofit without committing the time, effort, and money to apply for 501(c)(3) status, find a board, and secure long-term funding? Chamber of Commerce ,“Social entrepreneurship is the process by which individuals, startups and entrepreneurs develop and fund solutions that directly address social issues.

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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.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 24, 2025

In her remembering, Harrington's nephew had used funds she had sent for school supplies on a CD replicator, then sent her "a lovely thank you note essentially saying how happy he was to copy and share games with his friends." PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week's Game Developers Conference.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The platform has already secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), as well as Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator. Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch. Post News’ goals are ambitious.

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sgEngage

JULY 3, 2024

A Director of Finance at a nonprofit shared this sentiment with us during our research on the value of AI in fund accounting. AI in fund accounting has the power to drive deeper analysis and increased efficiency across your nonprofit accounting team, with the right safeguards for accuracy and privacy. Not bookkeeping.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Previously, the stunning intelligence gains that led to chatbots such ChatGPT and Claude had come from supersizing models and the data and computing power used to train them. o1 required more time to produce answers than other models, but its answers were clearly better than those of non-reasoning models.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billion. Mistral AI is also opening up its commercial platform today.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

The newest reasoning models from top AI companies are already essentially human-level, if not superhuman, at many programming tasks , which in turn has already led new tech startups to hire fewer workers. Fast AI progress, slow robotics progress If youve heard of OpenAI, youve heard of its language models: GPTs 1, 2, 3, 3.5,

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sgEngage

JUNE 26, 2024

Over the past year, I’ve spoken with more than 100 heads of schools and industry leaders about the independent school business model. ” When I asked this pre-COVID, I likely would have heard something like, “Peter, people have been saying this model has been challenged for at least 20 years, but yet we’re still here.”

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Candid

JUNE 10, 2024

Grantseekers look to grantmaking organizations to demonstrate their commitment to fairness before applying for funding. The form should be as concise as possible, and the effort required to complete it should be proportionate to the amount of potential funding. The actionable tips above for each practice should help in getting started.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

The benefits of recurring gifts are obvious—more predictability in funds and the ability to plan operations. This move could unseat nonprofit players like GoFundMe and GlobalGiving that charge a fee as a part of their business model. From here, they can set up donor-advised funds to rival organizations like Volunteer Match.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2025

Why Organizations Should Experiment with Revenue Diversity Even when your revenue channels are strong, nonprofits should always be experimenting with their funding models. This approach allows your nonprofit to adapt and grow, fostering financial stability and enabling continued mission-driven success.

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ITPro Today

MARCH 28, 2025

Open source software may be free to use, but creating and maintaining it often incurs significant costs. Here are four approaches to paying for open source software development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

million in “expansion” funding from Aruwa Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage growth equity and gender-lens fund. . The initial product brought in $165,000 in seed funding from investors such as CcHUB Growth Capital, Montane Capital and B-Knight. When Dada launched the platform, its target audience was solely businesses.

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