Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It’s a common misconception that nonprofits don’t focus on financial goals since they’re not generating a profit. Furthermore, nonprofits receive different types of revenue than most for-profit businesses. of resources more than profitability,?with How are Nonprofit’s Financial Goals Different?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 11, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Language of a Successful Donation Appeal. The wording and language used in your donation appeal are key. Language that emphasizes the ways in which donors are helping a cause is much more effective than language that cautions donors that without their support, the organization will fail.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The group wants to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI's for-profit arm. The Wall Street Journal reports a group of investors led by Musk's xAI submitted an unsolicited offer to the company's board of directors on Monday. When asked for comment, an OpenAI spokesperson pointed Engadget to an X post from CEO Sam Altman. "No

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

This is a very good sign for the non-profit world. Well, because the non-profit sector is built on human connectedness, relationships, passion and the desire to create positive change in the world. Making it simpler for people to connect with causes and non-profits on an international level. Amazing stuff.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Preply , a tutoring marketplace for language learning, has raised a $35 million Series B co-led by Full In Partners and Owl Ventures, an edtech fund that has backed Byju’s and Newsela. Preply’s recent growth, as well as a global boom in language learning, explains the current investor interest. Fluent Forever raised $4.9

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Social entrepreneurship is a new phenomena developing out of many for profits as well as nonprofits. 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. Talk Dirty. Don’t over-think it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

Workers want to use AI tools right now but leaders in both the for-profit and nonprofit space worry that they won’t be able to demonstrate the impact AI has in objective terms and are leery to implement new technology without proper security and policy in place. This means less training and quicker implementation for all users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

It finds talent by scouring public data and using natural-language and machine-learning technologies to understand the expertise of each candidate and build a complete 360-degree view of each potential employee. In a world where so many startups have yet to turn a profit, SeekOut is a refreshing exception.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

The immediate applications vary Meta and Google, for instance, are funnelling data into systems like massive large language models, while Reddit has sought to monetize its data troves by selling them to AI makers but communicating on the web increasingly means your data is being used to train AI tools.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the current fundraising climate, this is a pretty bullish multiple, but it speaks to the company’s growth, which the investor noted is currently at 100%, and the fact that DeepL’s breaking even and close to being profitable. It will also continue to invest in R&D.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 30, 2013

There is no need to use flashy language or catchy cliches that may discourage a recipient from opening and viewing the content. The post 5 Ways To Increase Your Nonprofit’s Email Engagement appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Treat the subject line like a tool. Keep it simple, short, and pertinent.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Optimizing your online giving pages should be at the top of your priority list (as far as online goals go), that is, if you’re a non-profit and you’ve got a website. It’s a shame because these pages are critical to a non-profits online success – all the action happens on them. To make sure we’re speaking the same language ….

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2019

Digital Technology in the Non-for-Profit Sector :: Download. The survey is 100% anonymous and available in 4 languages. Published by the Canada Revenue Agency. For Nonprofits in Asia Pacific: 17. Australia Giving Report 2019 :: Download. Published by Good2Give. Published by Infoxchange (Australia & New Zealand).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Anyspheres Cursor tool, for example, helped advance the genre from simply completing lines or sections of code to building whole software functions based on the plain language input of a human developer. Or the developer can explain a new feature or function in plain language and the AI will code a prototype of it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

When VC after VC said no, Cambly had to find a way to make a profit to keep the doors open. Since then, the company went on to raise a $15 million Series A and a $40 million Series B, but only because the company took the hard steps to seek profitability earlier than expected.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I continue to evolve my thinking about how to tell non-profit stories. This is natural in any line of work, but in non-profit storytelling I find that it mostly impacts my process for writing and telling stories. I also read a lot of non-profit stories that are simply just the facts told chronologically.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Tokens represent words in a large language model ( LLM ) system and with AI inference services typically charging for every million tokens generated, this goal offers the most visible return on AI investments and energy used per task. But the underlying goal is simple: generate more tokens at a lower cost.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But when you are a lean staff and a tool comes along that can act as an unpaid intern, it’s no surprise that the philanthropic industry has jumped on AI adoption, even more than for-profit businesses. Generative AI tools are great at recognizing and repeating patterns, so they are good at helping you summarize and simplify language.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 6, 2014

Using unfamiliar language, over the top punctuation, or off-beat spelling in your nonprofit’s call to action message can often confuse or turn away potential donors and visitors to your website. The post 5 Ways To Increase Donations Through Your Nonprofit’s Website appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Many of the great technologies that we use today were born out of open-source development: Android, Firefox, VLC media player, MongoDB, Linux, Docker and Python, just to name a few, with many of these also developing into very successful for-profit companies.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

The study looked at over 71 million English language videos from 136,00 YouTube channels crawled in 2019, with data going back to 2008. More data transparency from platforms, too, is important for researchers to understand who is profiting and from what sources. “We

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TechImpact

MARCH 6, 2014

Dell is famous for receiving 25,000 mentions across their social media channels in 11 different languages every day. The post 4 Strategies To Utilize Your “Big Data” appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Here, we provide even more in depth strategies to deal with your nonprofit’s data deluge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya. It is, however, a very narrow tool even for a social enterprise, let alone for a profitable business opportunity.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Yesterday at Google’s I/O developer conference, the company outlined ambitious plans for its future built on a foundation of advanced language AI. Language models like Google’s come with a host of challenging risks. Google just featured LaMDA a new large language model at I/O. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

Every day, rideshare drivers like me struggle to make ends meet because companies like Uber and Lyft prioritize corporate profits over our wellbeing,” plaintiff Saori Okawa said in a statement. drivers are trying to use this language to argue that Prop 22 was illegal from its inception.

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The Verge

JULY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Schou and his not-for-profit group, Secret Club , which reverse-engineers software for research purposes, found that if an iPhone connected to a network with the SSiD name %p%s%s%s%s%n it would cause a bug in iOS’ networking stack that would disable its Wi-Fi, and system networking features like AirDrop would become unusable.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2012

However, along with wanting to either make a profit or raise funding as a priority, maybe you should consider making design a priority as well. Making design a priority in your tech-based business or startup could make a difference in your marketing results, how customers view you, and in the end could help your profitability.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Duolingo , a Pittsburgh-based language learning business last valued at $2.4 The company recently turned profitable on an adjusted basis. The company’s profitability or lack thereof should not prove to be a problem during its impending listing. billion, has officially filed to go public. Duolingo also reported $55.4

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TechImpact

JUNE 4, 2014

Find out if all your volunteers are up to date on your nonprofit’s processes, language, best practices, and policies. The post 4 Ways Thinking Like A Marketer Will Help Volunteer Retention appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I then got into the non-profit sector in 2001 when I joined GiveIndia, the first and leading online giving portal in India. I was there for seven and a half years, and I had a fascinating time applying what had worked for me in the for-profit sector, including scaling up various systems and processes, to the non-profit space.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The app is most effective with the English language, though. The post Twitter Analytics And Your Nonprofit appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. The tool analyzes an array of factors, perhaps the most useful one being the last 1,000 tweets sent out by that specific account and assigning a score to them.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

These will support your business case by aligning with your goals: Consistent, trusted data with standard interactive reports using a common language that employees throughout your organization easily understand – all in a secure data warehouse. Communicate to leadership and staff in their language.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Like its predecessor, the Streaming Avatar can communicate in 175 languages, switching from one to another in mid-conversation.HeyGens 2024 advancements also introduced real-time video translation tools that preserve the speakers voice and style, as well as new integrations like PowerPoint-to-video conversion that streamline content creation.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

If you’re a non-profit. The non-profit industry is incredibly saturated and these brands often have limited budgets. A simple domain like.give should be fairly popular, so it’s ideal to pre-register early on before demand drives up prices for smaller non-profits with conservative budgets. Go for.ngo,give, or.donate.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Internet Archive — the non-profit digital library known for the Wayback Machine — announced that it will now preserve Flash animations and games , ahead of Adobe’s planned demise for the defunct web software at the end of 2020. Image: Puffballs United.

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