Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

We proposed a new path to take decisions. Another benefit for the councilis to have a space to propose projects for the future, and see the opinion of the citizens. How did your work getting the local council online get started? What’s been the reaction of your community? approach to consensus decision making. What’s the idea?

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, modern object detectors are limited by the manual annotations of their training data, resulting in a vocabulary size significantly smaller than the vast array of objects encountered in reality. Thus, it could be beneficial for open-vocabulary detection if we build locality information into the image-text pre-training.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the last 10 years, AI and ML models have become bigger and more sophisticated — they’re deeper, more complex, with more parameters, and trained on much more data, resulting in some of the most transformative outcomes in the history of machine learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). In the U.S. And, the U.S.

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Authoring Copyright Paraguay Law 150

Candid

JUNE 9, 2022

What is a proposal project budget? . Proposal project budgets are the budgets you submit to a funder as part of a grant application. Many funders say that the proposal project budget is the first part of the application they look at so they’re a great way to make your case for funding. . How should I get started? .

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Traditionally, experts use domain knowledge to quantitatively define the mean and kernel parameters (e.g., In “ Pre-trained Gaussian processes for Bayesian optimization ”, we consider the challenge of hyperparameter optimization for deep neural networks using BayesOpt.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Why Community? So, why community?

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 14, 2025

Our framework provides one possible roadmap for this scaling, proposing five distinct AI control levels (ACLs), ranging from models incapable of competent scheming (ACL-0) to models with scheming capabilities vastly above those of humans (ACL-5).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Here’s How to Create a Buzzworthy Conference Session -by Lori Jean Mantooth, Points of Light’s director of training programs. You’ve spent hours developing a workshop proposal, hoping it would be accepted and then working hard to make sure the actual session lived up to your original vision in the proposal. We’ve all been there.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

Free nonprofit educational resources Most nonprofit leaders hold deep expertise in their organization’s focus area, but not everyone working in the social sector arrives equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to fundraise effectively. Get started today to explore Candid’s wealth of free nonprofit resources.

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Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

Our Get Started YouTube playlist offers a shortlist of videos on fundraising and proposal writing—all under three minutes. Another quick way to pick up practical tips is to browse Candid’s knowledge base , which provides answers to hundreds of questions. For example, short videos are a great way to learn quickly.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The site offers training for nonprofit staff that goes into more detail than we do in class. Anyone can access free on-demand and live trainings from experts who have experienced common challenges working in the nonprofit field. Candid Learning also hosts live trainings on topics such as corporate giving and starting nonprofits.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

However, visual language has not garnered a similar level of attention, possibly because of the lack of large-scale training sets in this space. In light of these challenges, we propose “ MatCha: Enhancing Visual Language Pretraining with Math Reasoning and Chart Derendering ”.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 1, 2023

In “ Zero-shot Transfer Learning within a Heterogeneous Graph via Knowledge Transfer Networks ”, presented at NeurIPS 2022 , we propose a model called a Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), which transfers knowledge from label-abundant node types to zero-labeled node types using the rich relational information given in a HG.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

The journey itself is magical: you take a series of trains getting ever smaller, until the final hour meanders through the middle of mountain villages with a foot to spare on either side of the train, through tunnels and beneath spectacular mountains. And then we're in a small ski village in Switzerland!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

According to Shelf CEO Sedarius Perrotta , Shelf can absorb information from, say, Salesforce, SharePoint, legacy knowledge management platforms, and Zendesk. Then, after training models and staff, the company’s software can begin to provide support staff with answers to customer questions as they talk to customers in real time.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

Intuitively, to align the image content with the text description during training, VLMs may learn region-sensitive and discriminative features that are transferable to object detection. At training time, F-VLM is simply a detector with the last classification layer replaced by base-category text embeddings.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on extensive internet data have shown a promising path towards achieving this goal. Despite having internal knowledge about robot motions, LLMs struggle to directly output low-level robot commands due to the limited availability of relevant training data.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2005

I was in the middle of an office move many years ago, all my papers and books and files stacked on the floor or dumped in cardboard cartons, when the messenger service showed up to collect a proposal we'd just finished and and needed to get into the hands of our prospective client by close of business.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT is currently free to use, which means you don’t pay a dime to access the chatbot’s knowledge and expertise. Why ChatGPT is Beneficial to Nonprofits ChatGPT’s main benefit for nonprofits is that it’s an all-in-one knowledge, productivity, and creativity tool. Grant Proposal And that’s not all. The best part?

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Nonprofit Social Media Content Generation 104

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application? Author Mary Diegert shares nonprofit grant proposal budgeting tips, and a road map for overcoming the challenges of calculating the revenue and expense numbers that will populate your one-page budget.

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Candid

JULY 12, 2022

Our free on-demand training, What You Need to Know About Fiscal Sponsorships . When approaching prospective fiscal sponsors, be ready to give a project proposal that explains: . Check out our proposal writing resources for help creating your project proposal. . How do I find a fiscal sponsor? . Have a question?

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 16, 2023

While large language models (LLMs) are now beating state-of-the-art approaches in many natural language processing benchmarks, they are typically trained to output the next best response, rather than planning ahead, which is required for multi-turn interactions. The selected sequence of utterances is then fused into a cohesive response.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, with chain-of-thought prompting, a model is not grounded in the external world and uses its own internal representations to generate reasoning traces, limiting its ability to reactively explore and reason or update its knowledge. We propose ReAct, a new paradigm that combines reasoning and acting advances in language models.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

It's a good thing if you have a knowledgeable accountant on the payroll who knows the ins and outs of nonprofit financial tracking. Your remaining staff members may need at least a small knowledge of the basics to link to the new person you hire. The ASU Lodestar Center has the perfect training for you!

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Learning Nonprofit Knowledge Phoenix 95

sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Once year-end fundraising passes and we’re in the new year, your nonprofit is in position to focus on development activities —including training your staff and volunteers to reach greater heights in 2022. . Improved staff and volunteer retention rates, fundraising and donor stewardship outcomes, and training engagement come to mind.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Create a request for proposal (RFP). Consultants use these documents to build out proposals that demonstrate how they would approach helping your team. Send your top candidates your RFP, giving them a reasonable deadline for getting back to you with a finished proposal. Review candidates’ proposals.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 16, 2021

Supervised examples allow us to trace algorithmic bias back to the human source of an AI’s knowledge, revealing how historical bias and systemic discrimination inform the outcomes used to train an AI. Algorithmic bias can appear in both supervised and unsupervised AI models.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Cancer Los Angeles Proposal Grant 130

Nimble AMS

APRIL 11, 2022

Potential sponsors are more likely to agree to your proposal if you can show proof of success from previous events. Once a company agrees to your event sponsorship proposal, you want to make it easy for them to purchase a sponsorship. TECH TIP: Try the MyTrailhead feature to train your event volunteers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. Our proposal is that many governments that are not major tech hubs (i.e., Our proposal is that many governments that are not major tech hubs (i.e., most countries excluding the U.S., Canada and Europe.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2022

With a variety of specialized skills in advanced modeling, machine learning, python, and more, I’m proud to say we’re often looking forward to proposing solutions for partners that advance their goals strategically. We’re able to understand client needs and find approaches that fit. What does it take to succeed on our team?

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AccelEvents

MARCH 30, 2021

They are seeking certain bits of information rather than general knowledge on a subject. Prior to the rise of COVID-19, we saw attendees of virtual events, or even a hybrid event , as the attendees who are seeking more knowledge on a given subject and to gain an edge in that industry. Training Webinar.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Our goal is to leverage our extensive and complementary networks of individuals and organizations to provide knowledge, training, and tools to nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs around the world. They also operate research, education, and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level.

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Foundation Philanthropy New York City Grant 60

Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

However, each of these only addresses a limited aspect of conversational interaction and requires considerable effort in curating large-scale datasets and training dedicated models. We observed that the LLM could use its prior knowledge to combine multiple related input fields to ask a single question. 1-shot LLM (cross-app) 74.69

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

It’s accessible for users at all different levels and doesn’t require advanced technical knowledge to use. Staff training to assist with content migration and entry. Submit a request for proposal (RFP). After sending your RFP to your top options, you’ll receive their proposed plans for guiding your website design project.

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Drupal Tips Nonprofit WordPress 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

People agreed, as @kanter & @afine suggest, “With or without the knowledge or approval of organizational leaders, social behavior is beginning to happen” and that “Everyone in the organization – not just one department – is engaged in these conversations.”

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