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Five Internal Controls for the Very Small Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

This Gold Avocado article by CPA Carl Ho explores some internal controls for the very small nonprofit: How nonprofits need to enact clearly defined checks, balances, and procedures in their operations even when the entire organization is just a handful of people with a mission.

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Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Ars Technica

Now, new research from Anthropic is exposing at least some of the inner neural network "circuitry" that helps an LLM decide when to take a stab at a (perhaps hallucinated) response versus when to refuse an answer in the first place.

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Engaging Networks Welcomes International Nonprofit Leaders to Flagship Community Conference

NonProfit PRO

Engaging Networks announced the Engaging Networks Community Conference, set to take place in Washington, D.C., 11-12, 2023. This event will bring together professionals and thought leaders from the nonprofit sector to discuss strategies and technologies that drive engagement and empower positive change.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage. See Through a Wider Lens Zonta International is uniquely positioned to accomplish this and other female-friendly goals.

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What Apple is doing with 25,000 acres of former cattle pastures in Brazil

Fast Company Tech

The environmental group Conservation International is working on the project with an unlikely set of partners: a forestry company and the tech giant Apple. Some critics argue that eucalyptus overuses groundwater, but Conservation International says that’s often caused by poor management. It’s also quickly disappearing.

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Amnesty International slammed for using AI-generated images of real Colombia protests

TechSpot

To commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the protests against tax rises imposed by the Colombian government during the height of Covid-19, the international human rights advocacy group posted images on Twitter of incidents that appear to have taken place at the time, including one of the Colombian police leading away.

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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

So in 2021, Thorleifsson launched Ramp Up Reykjavk to fund the installation of 100 ramps in places with the most foot traffic across Icelands capitalcafs, restaurants, and shops. Now he is looking to make quick improvements at the international level. I had some money, and I was able to quickly raise more.

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