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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

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Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. Use Data to Reach People If you’re looking for a real-life example of how data can improve decision-making and by extension the bottom line, I’ll share one group’s impactful experience.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Language barriers For those who are not fluent in English, language barriers can create additional challenges and make it difficult to access certain opportunities and succeed in certain fields. The Black Philanthropy Network is another organization that works to support Black leadership in the nonprofit sector.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

Relying too heavily on technology means that those who lack the resources, language skills, and savvy to use technology to its full potential are left behind. English as a second language. In addition to deepening inequities for low-income people, modern technology has a way of isolating or segmenting people by language.

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Today’s Workforce: Millennials + Boomers = Learning for All

Connection Cafe

Back when I was in school, we always used to call the work world “real life.” ” After school, we would enter “real life,” get a job, get a car, do what grown ups did. But what’s even more cool is that I continue to learn new things every day in this “real life.” ” Shocker!

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life. I remember a Spanish-language version of Eva Luna, and a biography of Lance Armstrong.

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Sectorness: What does "nonprofit" do for us?

ASU Lodestar Center

Better maybe, for the different pieces to keep to themselves, with their own methods, language, and professional development programs? The term "philanthropy" has been in American parlance for a long time, referring to individual action, charitable behavior, and (more recently) the professional field of grantmaking foundations.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Yet there seemed no concern for the dire condition of a dangerous bench, threatening to injure a student at any time. Yet there are nine students on a broken bench; and for my money, that’s a paradigm issue. Executive Director.