Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

Natural Language Processing : AI tools that understand natural language inputs make it easier for nonprofits to adopt and use these technologies without extensive training. Specialized Tools Specialized AI tools offer depth and expertise in particular areas, such as natural language processing, computer vision, or data analysis.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. As it turns out, these models were originally developed decades ago and many are written in Fortran !

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We made a “playbook” outlining our systems and platforms and shared it so that our program model could be duplicated in other areas. The post A Blueprint to Building a New Model of Community Care appeared first on Salesforce.org. With our guidance, SF New Deal style programs launched in Salt Lake City, Juneau, and Napa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many nonprofits lack clear guidance on AI usage meaning the organization misses out on the opportunity to implement AI at scale and the usage of free, open-data model AI tools opens the organization up to data security problems. This free webinar is essential learning for every nonprofit employee, regardless of title.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

With this three-part blog series on our expansion of the proven Bookshare model internationally, we’d like to give you a glimpse into the ways in which Benetech provides people with disabilities around the world equal access to knowledge. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program.

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The MatrixFiles

OCTOBER 7, 2024

You can upload specialized knowledge like reports or other documentation that the GPT should pull from first, before going to the rest of the Large Language Model (LLM). You can also see how it has distilled all the plain language instructions I gave it into one set of GPT instructions.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. Predictive modeling reveals future outcomes and trends with greater accuracy than traditional methods, enabling proactive decision-making and change management. It’s free with limited usage.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We don’t have a common language for collaboration between large software developers selling and donating their platforms to nonprofits. Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. Compared to today’s models, Eliza was tongue-tied. AI-powered chatbots, like ChatGPT and Bard, use artificial intelligence and natural language processing to generate human-like responses.

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

Mini Code, Multiple Connections “There is a tendency to think of large language models as massive programs,” David said. Like a child, with each success or failure, the model gains competence. Through exposure and feedback, it builds a deeper understanding of language. “AI What are AI’s strengths?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. Support multiple languages.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Older models tended to be AMS-centric, leading to siloed data, static reports, and that trapped feeling. It can be a challenge to get everyone on board with one language when things have been done differently in the past. Solution : One way to combat this challenge is to build out a central repository using a modern ecosystem.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

While their “profit” model involves generous donations from the public, these donations go toward covering the core business expenses and what is leftover goes directly to the cause. In an article from Huffington Post , Jay Lee, co-founder and CEO of Smalknot discusses this new trend. Talk Dirty. Don’t over-think it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. We, too, are working hard to expand Bookshare into more geographies and languages. Spanish publishing is one of the hottest digital battlegrounds.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Some platforms add the tipping model to donation forms with a confusing process to opt out, so donors perceive the tip to be mandatory to complete their donation. Donor tipping vs. Qgiv’s GiftAssist option With tipping models becoming a more popular option for nonprofits, you might wonder if it’s a good choice for your nonprofit as well.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. Tone of voice, body language, and facial expression are clues to what or how people want to communicate. It sounds simple. But it’s the assignment that’s easiest to fail. Because you might not know yourself as well as you think. Observe behavior.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. Also helpful: Interest in and comfort with languages other than English, especially Spanish, French, Russian, or Arabic. Process, clean, and transform data. Run data standardization and de-duplication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The native capability of something called “Sites&# – which is a publicly facing version of what’s called “VisualForce&# – a markup language that includes HTML as well as APEX code (Force.com coding language). There are a couple of others, and I’m sure more in development.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.” The insights of personality type distinguish the natural differences between people and gives us positive language to discuss and respect these differences.” The MBTI describes healthy and normal differences between people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

Customizing default social media language to display when campaigns are shared. Gen Z is particularly used to the subscription model. Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Finding new opportunities to build donor relationships. Reviewing new donations that have the potential to become recurring gifts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

PHP is one of many programming languages. This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! We could serve many more with a comparable international model. We help more than 250,000 people with print disabilities thanks to our U.S.

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TechImpact

MAY 22, 2014

Just stick a stock image of a smiling model on your most trafficked landing page and watch the conversion rate skyrocket, right? There is so much more to consider like; should we use a model, stock image, or use one of our team members? Focus tone and language. It is said to conveys womanhood, maternity, and comfort.

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The MatrixFiles

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We Chose Fathom After a lot of testing, we chose Fathom for the following reasons : We carefully reviewed the Terms of Use and were satisfied that client confidential data that might get discussed during a meeting would not go toward training a public LLM (large language model). The free version gave us all the functionality we needed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty. As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States.

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Candid

DECEMBER 5, 2024

HDIP introduces the ability to ask data-related questions in plain language using a chat interface. HDIP uses a human-in-the-loop model for quality control. This model makes HDIP a financially and ecologically responsible tool for humanitarian organizations working with limited resources. Conversational analysis.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Developing an agreed-upon language to describe those qualities. As our consciousness expanded, we realized that the leadership team needed to model the behavior we were seeking to promote. “This initiative has impacted the organization in numerous ways. But the core benefits are: Defining the key traits the team sees as most important.

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

was to help them leverage and monetize assets they already owned and showcase their brands in a new context while creating a simple model that could become self-funding.” Tone—The advice above also applies to tone and language. “I realized that associations already had the content and the audience. My goal with WorkerBee.TV

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

Because the Marrakesh Treaty was modeled after the Chafee Amendment, as the Section 121 copyright exception is widely known in honor of the senator who proposed it in 1996, only minor changes have been recommended to align U.S. law with the Treaty language. Including illustrations as part of books to be made accessible.

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The MatrixFiles

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There’s even a Concorde plane, the space shuttle Discovery, an honest to goodness SR-71 reconnaissance plane (my favorite), and a scale model of a Martian lander and rover. This museum is full of all types of vehicles that fly: planes, helicopters, amphibious ships, missiles and drones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. You can create a new benefit for donors simply by choosing to use language about their donation that deepens their commitment. Use warm values-based language and feelings into your messaging. Get creative. Hear me out.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

The introduction of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, now allows AI applications to enhance the capabilities of machine learning models by integrating them with a retrieval component. Avoid Vendor and Model Lock-in: The AI space is still evolving rapidly.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. What is ChatGPT?

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The MatrixFiles

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We Chose Fathom After a lot of testing, we chose Fathom for the following reasons : We carefully reviewed the Terms of Use and were satisfied that client confidential data that might get discussed during a meeting would not go toward training a public LLM (large language model). The free version gave us all the functionality we needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology? What to do when a network is in trouble?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

But, in my experience, this is merely because those who rule the business strategy domain don’t speak the language of mission driven organizations, who are put off by any attempt to reduce their work to fit onto forms and spreadsheets. They are speaking the language of people, and empathy, and systemic change.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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