The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Wearing face masks that adequately cover the mouth and nose causes the error rate of some of the most widely used facial recognition algorithms to spike to between 5 percent and 50 percent, a study by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found. This matches reports we’ve heard from inside government.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. Amnesty International USA :: @ Amnesty. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Recently, on March 8th, International Womens Day was recognizeda moment that originally sprung from a movement to fight against child labor and sweatshop working conditions. A recent report issued by UNICEF, Plan International, and UN Women indicates that FGM is declining. But there is hope.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

The marketing team of the international nonprofit, Water.org , was quick to evaluate their social content plans as the COVID-19 pandemic spread on and offline in early 2020. Water.org’s Senior Content Creator, Moree Lambeth explains.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

As an intern with HRDAG , I was part of the team analyzing data drawn from documents in the National Police Archive, a cache of approximately 80 million sheets of paper kept by the police system during the Guatemalan Civil War, a 36-year long conflict that ended in 1996. It’s funny, my parents asked the same question.)

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

But good governance shouldn’t be comfortable. From the Peterson Institute for International Economics—increasing the share of women in senior management positions by just 10% could boost annual corporate profits by $1.2 Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. trillion globally.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. GrantAssistant’s full team, located in Washington, D.C.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

Its critical work that sustains ecosystems and supports biodiversity at a time when the United Nations estimates over 1 million species are threatened with extinction. OroraTech detects an early bushfire near Expedition National Park in Australia. as well as many other users across Latin America and Asia.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

SambaNova Systems For chips that could deliver exponential AI application gains SambaNova Systems platform, designed for enterprise and government use, combines AI chips with Samba-1, an open-source large language model similar to OpenAIs GPT-4. TSMC had record 2024 annual revenue of $87.8 billion, a 33.9% increase over 2023.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

But while national and international efforts are needed to address the crisis, you can also take small actions that can have quick benefits, starting in your own backyard. The law mandates that the government maintain habitat for listed species. But those laws could be changed. The federal Endangered Species Act can also help.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2020

Google, Facebook, and Twitter are pausing the processing of data requests from the Hong Kong government as they review a new security law that went into effect on July 1st. Twitter also halted its handling of government requests as of July 1st, with Facebook announcing its pause on Monday, The New York Times reported.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

million images, videos, and other files related to child sexual exploitation were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). . By: Brandon Kaopuiki, Adviser, IJM Hub Against Online Sexual Exploitation of Children. In 2020, 65.4 Note: this is a stock photo; child is not an actual victim (Photo: IJM).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

National Public Radio :: Download. The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch, the NPR News App allows you to follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to. Amnesty International :: Download. App Name: NPR News. Updated: March 4, 2010.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Board members are a vital resource for nonprofits: In addition to their responsibility for governance, they each bring unique perspectives and experiences to enrich the growth of nonprofit organizations and partnerships. She then received her graduate degree in higher education, student affairs, and international education policy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Facebook Fundraising Tools [ Conservation International ]. The Rise of International Giving. The obstacle to international online fundraising thus far has been the lack of an international database of verified NPOs and NGOs. The Rise of NGOs in Developing Nations. Digital Payments on Social Networks. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The initial announcement from Ukraines government stated that critical minerals would also offset the cost of American assistance, but that line was removed from the joint statement. is so interested Critical minerals are defined as resources that are essential to economic or national security and subject to supply risks. Why the U.S.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

As Drupal 9 heads towards its end-of-life this November, now is the time to start preparing to move your government website to Drupal 10. Many government websites have already made the switch to Drupal 9, in preparation for Drupal 10, or are in-process of upgrading to Drupal 10 now. Many others are planning the move now.

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Forum One

JULY 22, 2021

As Drupal 8 heads towards its end-of-life this November, we are starting to see more government websites on Drupal 9. This means that many government websites have already made the switch to Drupal 9, or are in process. For inspiration, let’s look at a few government websites we have helped successfully move to Drupal 9.

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Charity Village

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Unifor Social Justice Fund is a registered charity governed by the Unifor Board of Directors.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This year's event provides a forum for organizations to communicate and collaborate with other emergency management partners and state/national disaster response non-profits, government agencies, and practitioners from across the emergency management community.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Canadian government announced on Thursday it will launch a new program on April 1 to encourage startup founders who will (hopefully) create new jobs and spur economic growth in the country. Entrepreneurs will require the support of a Canadian angel investor group or venture capital fund before they can apply to the Start-Up Visa Program.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. That’s definitely still a part of what I do.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

A government official tells news station RTE that an international cyber criminal group is responsible for the attack. It was an international attack, but this is just a cyber criminal gang looking for money,” says Minister of State for Public Procurement and eGovernment Ossian Smyth. This is not espionage.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A strong example of this work was shown on October 18th when Benetech statistical consultant Daniel Guzmán presented expert legal testimony in the trial of two former agents of the Guatemalan National Police, Abraham Lancerio Gómez and Héctor Roderico Ramírez. The estimated 31.7 You can read more about the case at [link].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

Unfortunately, there is no HIPAA equivalent for international human rights and humanitarian information. We now understand that corporate collection and government interception of sensitive information is the norm, not the exception. Or think of sexual violence in an Internally Displaced Population camp.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Expert testimony by Benetech statistical consultant Daniel Guzmán provided critical evidence in the conviction of the former Guatemalan National Police officers Abraham Lancerio Gómez and Héctor Roderico Ramírez. million documents in the Guatemalan National Police Archive.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Point a Compass to the Future Regular updates on the status of governance can be a compass to help the group stay on the right path. In fast-moving digital markets, regular updates on the status of governance can be a compass to help the group stay on the right path and adjust to unexpected challenges.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. governing through networks. Fast forward to 2009, Wendy led a process internally to create a social media guidelines and operational handbook.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 31, 2017

In other words, the effectiveness of the charitable work ultimately falls to how the nonprofit is governed. The question then turns to this: how can nonprofits structure their governance based on their organizational and lifecycle needs? 378) (Brown, 2005, p. 330) (Bradshaw, 2009, p. 1996, 370-73).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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The Verge

JUNE 27, 2021

According to MIT Technology Review , Atajurt posts testimonies from the family members of people detained in Chinese internment camps in Xinjiang. The United Nations has estimated that at least 1 million Uyghurs are being held in internment camps in China, a claim that China has disputed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

CityOptions is an environmental initiative to help local governments—particularly small and mid-sized ones—plan and execute effective sustainability initiatives. Our goal is to revolutionize the effectiveness of local governments in responding to climate change and other environmental impacts. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Prevent Internal Injuries The first category includes the situations that we can, and should, prevent. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations. But each slice of the pie shares a common point of origin. Don’t laugh, I’ve seen it happen. Supply chains are unpredictable.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 5, 2015

VisionLink encourages local and national media to share and embed this unique map on their websites to better educate their audience on the hurricane’s progress and impact. During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, VisionLink became the nation's system of record for millions of people and thousands of shelters.

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