Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

The biggest concern for most people when it comes to AI and work is: Are robots going to take our jobs? On the final episode in The New Way We Work s mini-series on how AI is changing our jobs, I spoke to Lorena Gonzalez. What we started with in the warehouse bill, we’re really seeing expand throughout different types of work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 31, 2025

Unfortunately, thats not how community works. The Real Issue: Misaligned Strategy If your community isnt thriving, the problem isnt the platformits how youre using it. Gamification only works when it rewards meaningful engagement. Having great content does not mean people will engage with it.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an organization designed, albeit unintentionally, to produce bad leaders. When leaders work at cross-purposes with other leaders, it signals to those they lead to put their own agendas first.

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Candid

DECEMBER 30, 2024

All of us were surprised, but I doubt any were as surprised as I wasbecause I work on behalf of boys and men. In my experience, neglecting the issues of boys and men does not make those problems go away. These are the issues where the data is most concerning, and where action is most urgently needed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. Union54 founders launched the company last year when they went through painstaking processes to issue debit cards for their previous startup and challenger bank, Zazu.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The real issue isnt just being overworkedits being oversaturated. The ability to make sound, high-impact decisions isnt about working harder; its about creating space for deep thought. Through my work advising leaders , I have seen the biggest shift happen when they gain clarity on what is most important for them to focus on.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

And yet, there is a well-established science on human potential, with decades of empirical research resulting in replicable generalizations to predict and explain why some people perform better than others (across different work settings), and why some people develop more than others. How can you work out if you may be one of them?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2024

However, one glaring issue that’s often swept under the rug is the lack of prompt responses to communications from executive directors and nonprofit staff. Nonprofit staff members work tirelessly, often way beyond regular business hours and sometimes on weekends and holidays, sacrificing personal time and energy for the cause.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The problem of micromanagement is quite prevalent. The problem arises from board members overstepping their roles, often thinking they’re helping or know better, when in reality, they’re interfering. Burnout is a serious concern at many nonprofits and micromanagement from the board only exacerbates this issue.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Board members want and need meaningful work tied to the mission. That means they have to have time to commit first, then the skills we need — not all organizations need the same skills — and then the follow-through to get the work done independently. Seven years ago, I was asked to join a board of a mismanaged, failing organization.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

It’s a problem that has long littered the landscape in Kampala, the capital, where buveera are woven into the fabric of daily life. And they’re depending more on chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers to buffer against unreliable weather and more pervasive pest issues. Can agriculture escape the plastic problem?

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. Tackling too much Many nonprofits try to solve more problems than they have the resources to address.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Central to that success is their ability to leverage their innovation capital — the trust that funders place in their ability to solve problems and break new ground. That is exactly what is demanded of nonprofit social sector leaders who are tasked with solving the most intractable social issues of our time.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Now, as the Houston-based company seeks to repeat the journey , its executives say they've made improvements to their new spacecraft, Athena, that should help it avoid the problems that impacted the mission in 2024. Flight controllers had discovered a problem with the spacecraft's navigation system just a few hours before touchdown.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Children and teens who volunteer tend to have better health and lower levels of anxiety and fewer behavioral problems than those who dont volunteer. The total value of the hours of unpaid work volunteers put in totals an estimated U.S.$170 Halvorsen is an associate professor of social work at Washington University in St.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. Edinger also provides invaluable advice and techniques for how to move your sales team from transactional interactions and toward consultative relationships by: Helping your customers with problems they don’t see. Edinger , author of the new book, The Growth Leader.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

We hope that this work will help us learn about the types of microplastics floating through the air in our study area, Michigan. Microplasticsa global problem The term plastic refers to a wide variety of artificially created polymers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 12, 2022

Basically, it is a third-party bit of code that tries to fix accessibility problems on your site as it loads on someone’s computer or phone. . They often look something like this: Why don’t they work as intended? The problem is so widespread that there’s even a community-developed browser plugin to block overlays from loading.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The rollout will be throttled and, initially, notes wont appear publicly as Meta claims it needs time to feed the algorithm and ensure this system is working properly. It feels more like a work-in-progress and not a clear-cut answer to the shortcomings of third-party fact checking. Images: Meta] An unsolvable problem?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

To start, bring the problems your organization wants to fix into the light. For many people, issues that are out of sight are also out of mind. VR and AR programs do just that, illuminating the issue so that donors know exactly what their funds are going toward and who they’re helping.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Two billion people worldwidethats 80% of the global workforcemanufacture products, provide services, or work directly with customers. Theyre often the first to see or hear about problems, and listening to their insights can help avoid headaches. Leaders, are you listening to your frontline employees?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 6, 2025

The problems you are trying to solve are complex and the potential organizations you can support are many. Just because one path worked well for a peer organization doesnt necessarily mean its the right path for you. It means you made a difference, and peoples lives are better because of the work you did. Innovation is exciting.

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Candid

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Well-intended, ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals are donating large sums of money to fund solutions for some of society’s most challenging problems. Scalability and reach Identify nonprofits that do impactful work and have the potential to scale up but lack capacity and money to do it.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Plus, some people just don’t do well with navigating crowded spreadsheets, or might never work in spreadsheets to know what they’re doing. If the departments within your association are not communicating with one another about the data available, you might have an accessibility problem. Solution : The solution for this can be two-fold.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Remote work was one of those unsettling tests. We must stop the punch-clock mentality and the belief that if we let staff out of our sight, they’re going to be doing anything other than working. The traditional workplace reality is you’re lucky if you get up to five hours of productive work from each employee every day.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

There are some strategies that work. Put energy into responding to problems instead of investing energy in sealing them out. As youre working through disappointment or discouragement with yourself or others, also avoid using insincere positive statements or gimmicks. So, how can you be positive without embracing toxic behavior?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

If any of the following issues sound familiar, it may be time for an intervention. Get professional help to determine what went wrong and to begin working to prevent future catastrophes. You want to be certain your data is secure, and you need to know that you are problem-solving with accurate information and statistics.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

By integrating AI into core nonprofit work and involving communities in designing the tools, organizations can increase efficiency and address the needs of marginalized communities in the face of rapid technological change. Candid Labs is the place to go to discover the next big thing we are working on.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

For the science-minded, theyre genetically modified soil bacteria that work with plants to absorb and metabolize toxic chemicals commonly found indoors. This is really using nature as the technology to solve that problem in a sustainable way. It can also impact focus and productivity and exacerbate respiratory issues like asthma.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 21, 2025

Personal intervention One-to-one intervention by the board president or other board leadership is a less-formal solution to managing problem board members. But we can’t continue debating the issue. The conversation can occur in person or on the telephone; the board president can specifically request a resignation.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. Make time to audit the impact working from home is having on your organization. If performance issues have been a problem, keep an open mind. Evaluate Resources IT deficits equal a rocky road for remote work.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you. Define Your Needs What is the problem you are really solving for? Understanding your needs helps you identify the integrations that will make your work more impactful.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

He brings each person into his mind and heart, expresses gratitude for their work in the world, and considers how he can best support them. We’ve done work in the laboratory where we’ve shown that we can create an expectation that a person will get a painful stimulus. This is a huge and important issue.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Amazon customer service email Sometimes customer queries need to be worked through on a case-by-case basis, and the answers on the official website need to be more specific to offer any help to shoppers. In these cases, users can email cs-reply@amazon.com and explain their issues. Select "I need more help."

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Engadget

MARCH 24, 2025

That could be useful if you change work locations but want to bring your accessories with you, or if you want to replace your laptop with a more powerful tablet. For a USB-C hub to work, it needs to connect to a port that supports video, data and power all of which is covered by anything listed as USB 3.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

The platform streamlines important processes like onboarding, voting, and creating agendas, so you’ll have more time to discuss the issues that really matter. When your board can’t work to the best of their ability, it holds your entire organization back from reaching its true potential.

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Candid

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Without one, all kinds of problems can—and frequently do—arise. Some organizations may not want to require a financial commitment so they can recruit members who may not have a lot of money but know the community and issues well. Or is doing too much? Can we ‘fire’ a board member?

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