Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2019

In the wake of some of the most stressful times for nonprofits and activists that I work with, many are seeking out ways to reduce burnout, practice self-care and build empathetic relationships and supportive policies in the workplace. There is now enough evidence from research that stressful workplaces are counter-productive to impact.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Anthropic , a buzzy AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has begun offering partners access to its AI text-generating models. Anthropic has been relatively quiet about its plans to productize its work in the generative text AI space, preferring instead to focus on academic research.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2022

Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E , its text-to-image generation program. But researchers can sign up online to preview the system, and OpenAI hopes to later make it available for use in third-party apps. It also includes new capabilities, like editing an existing image.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research (This is Part 5 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. Google Research has been at the forefront of this effort, developing many innovations from privacy-safe recommendation systems to scalable solutions for large-scale ML.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Posted by Posted by Leslie Yeh, Director, University Relations (This is Part 9 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. Sharing knowledge is essential to Google’s research philosophy — it accelerates technological progress and expands capabilities community-wide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Based upon the survey results of 4,084 donors worldwide, the 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report is an annual research project that examines how donors prefer to give and engage with their favorite causes and charitable organizations. The report also explores the impact of gender, generation, and ideology upon giving and volunteerism.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming. The application form went live this afternoon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion to become the nation’s largest research, advocacy and services organization devoted to racial justice. Have there been demographic, economic, or policy changes that affect your messages and offerings? Organizations are always changing. The environment is always changing.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Google employees who worked with Timnit Gebru are coming out publicly to dispute claims against the star AI ethics researcher. They also said the publication review policy that Gebru was supposed to follow was applied “unevenly and discriminatorily.”. In his statement, Dean said the research team requires two weeks for review.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 15, 2024

Add to this the generational shifts and changing expectations that millennial and Gen Z workers have, and it is a recipe for something big. In this phase, you can do some research. By being thoughtful about shifting to a four-day workweek, you can achieve multiple goals with one policy, and give yourself a nice well-deserved break!

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It is a networking and development organization that connects executives with education, research, ideas, and people. Our research resulted in two books dedicated to positioning executives for success in digital markets. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. leadership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Research the steps needed to create a direct mail fundraising program (e.g. Generate a list monthly or quarterly of current donors or volunteers and call or email them to thank them for their current or past support. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on foundations in your area or state. Cultivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published an opinion piece, “ AI Can Help Nonprofits Reach More Donors But Fundraisers Can’t Ignore Potential Pitfalls ,” a topic that Allison Fine and I have been researching and writing about since 2017. Something we call this human-centered approach “co-botting” in our book.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

New NVIDIA NIM microservices for AI guardrails part of the NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails collection of software tools are portable, optimized inference microservices that help companies improve the safety, precision and scalability of their generative AI applications.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Posted by Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Staff Research Scientist, and Adam Paszke, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research (This is Part 3 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. Great machine learning (ML) research requires great systems.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 16, 2023

Posted by Deborah Cohen, Staff Research Scientist, and Craig Boutilier, Principal Scientist, Google Research As virtual assistants become ubiquitous, users increasingly interact with them to learn about new topics or obtain recommendations and expect them to deliver capabilities beyond narrow dialogues of one or two turns.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Unfortunately, there are gaps in the collected evidence, which has led to missed opportunities for shaping effective policies and practices. Ninety percent of the more than 160 case studies, policy briefs, project evaluations, and impact evaluations reviewed came from just 15 organizations, primarily based in Europe and North America.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

— My diligent research has proven that the word “viral” will come up within 42 seconds of talking with any nonprofit organization interested in marketing their cause online. While there, he helped launch Nonprofit Boot Camp , the Environmental Nonprofit Network, and the Next Generation Leadership Forum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

She shared a few highlights from Microsoft’s recent nonprofit sector research. Below is my fully human-generated reflection. When it comes to using generative AI tools such as Copilot for drafts of written materials, a human must always check it for accuracy because it can make mistakes.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 23, 2023

While there have been many recent advances in training joint visual-language models on Internet-scale data, figuring out how to best connect them to a spatial representation of the physical world that can be used by robots remains an open research question. Left : Top-down view of an environment.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore six smart strategies to drive major giving success for large nonprofits: Enlist prospect research to identify major donor prospects. Enlist prospect research to identify major donor prospects. Nonprofits often use prospect research to gather and analyze information about potential donors or prospects.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference. All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. And then we can, in a sense, ask it to generate new molecules.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy? University of Technology Research Fellow, Augustin Chevez and Senior Lecturer, DJ Huppatz note one early example of the office in classical art: Botticelli’s “Saint Augustine in His Study,” painted all the way back in 1480.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch. ” The Information reported in early March that Anthropic was seeking to raise $300 million at $4.1

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Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

This includes data that SAGE generates from constituent surveys, intake interviews, and focus groups, as well as data from external sources, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the U.S. What public policies are needed to address the unmet needs of our constituents?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

Although the program has been available for over a decade, our research shows that more than half of all nonprofit professionals are not aware of the Google Grant and how it can help nonprofits of all sizes. Promoting donation and sponsorship opportunities to generate funds. Recruiting volunteers to advance the organization’s mission.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4 , its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. “We can repeat [these steps] until we’re satisfied with the policy quality.” ” But color me skeptical.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 15, 2021

“Our nonprofit and education customers are looking to extract actionable mission insights from their data, but it can often be challenging to capture, store, and analyze all the data being generated,” said David Keogh, General Manager, Nonprofit Business and Social Impact, AWS. “We The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based,

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 15, 2024

.” This analysis not only highlights the current state of generosity but also offers a set of actionable recommendations aimed at empowering nonprofits, foundations, companies and policy makers to help promote and protect generosity. Their energy, creativity, and passion are unmatched.

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The Verge

JUNE 19, 2020

You make a ‘keen,’ which can be about any topic, whether it’s baking delicious bread at home, getting into birding or researching typography. The company has never been able to break into the social space, a venue of online activity that generates scads of lucrative data for targeting ads. “On Keen [.]

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Posted by Thomas Lew, Research Intern, and Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas, Research Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Over the past several years, the capabilities of robotic systems have improved dramatically. This SDE simulator is able to rapidly generate large amounts of data for RL training.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A new report in The Wall Street Journal ’s series on Facebook’s internal research shows the company’s focus on kids goes much deeper , including studying children younger than four years old in the hopes of better designing future products. Facebook’s child research has led it down several paths.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

When Meta launched its AI Studio feature for over two billion Instagram users in July 2024, the company promised a tool that would give anyone the ability to create their own AI characters to make you laugh, generate memes, give travel advice, and so much more. The company claimed the feature, which was built with Metas Llama 3.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

After I attended Catalyzing the Sharing Economy conference (the sharing economy is defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services), I shared a post with some notes and ideas about why I think it is the next generation of networked social change. Alternative Currency Donations.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Here, I will provide a few pointers to anyone who might be interested in contributing to further work on this research agenda, in the form of a few concrete and shovel-ready open problems, a few ideas on how those problems may be approached, and a few useful general insights about this problem setting.

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Tableau

JANUARY 28, 2022

In 2020, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) partnered with the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (Urban) to create an online tool to demystify the local police budget in DC, one of the most heavily-policed jurisdictions in America. Researching DC policing and measuring the costs. Kristin Adderson. January 28, 2022.

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Tableau

JANUARY 28, 2022

In 2020, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) partnered with the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (Urban) to create an online tool to demystify the local police budget in DC, one of the most heavily-policed jurisdictions in America. Researching DC policing and measuring the costs. Kristin Adderson. January 28, 2022.

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