Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How are you measuring your success? The good news is there is an invisible string connecting all the positive experiences above, so measuring your event’s success , reach , and therefore, growth can be a domino effect. Ask local businesses if they can help you thank your volunteers by donating gifts or experiences.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

A group of Uber and Lyft drivers in California filed a lawsuit Tuesday in state supreme court to overturn a ballot measure that allows the companies to continue treating its workers like independent contractors. There have been ballot measures successfully repealed in California in the past, but mostly through additional ballot measures.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By actively bringing together different departments and leading discussions around revenue diversification, you can set measurable goals, evaluate the ROI of each funding source, and make informed decisions about where to invest time and resources. How to Measure: Evaluate cost per dollar raised, donor acquisition costs, and conversion rates.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In proactive planning, companies take measures to ensure resources are available to protect their employees, facilities, and manage recoveries. Engage your local charities and become familiar with their reach. By engaging local charities – sometimes a little act goes a long way. How do we take this one step further?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

The measures still could be revived in the last month of the session, but it much less likely. Lawmakers could still consider the measures in the 2026 half of Georgia’s two-year session. Marcus Wiedower, the Watkinsville Republican who sponsored the measure, said in a statement. Jeff Amy, Associated Press

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

to create an active paseo, which hosts local farmers markets and other gatherings. And Gensler rolled out its Product Sustainability Standards, providing for many in the industry a clear way to measure the carbon impact of the interior products they select. million kilowatt-hours of energy annually.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

On Tuesday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the nation’s top internet watchdog, unveiled a series of proposed measures aimed at regulating the application of facial recognition. Entities in possession of facial data on more than 10,000 individuals must register with a local branch of the CAC.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen an uptick in funding possibilities within your field. Successful implementation of these programs will require close coordination with state, tribal, and local leaders like yourself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Finally, and this is critical: Measure your results against expectations. Measure, measure, measure. Collaborate with Partners Form Partnerships – Collaborate with local businesses, other nonprofits, local influencers/personalities, or community organizations. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

Families in need can access small, affordable loans and expert local resources to make household taps and toilets a reality, immediately. This metric in mind, monthly donors know the measure of their impact when they check the box to make their donation monthly. Why monthly giving matters.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You can think of this as a measure of complexity : less probable, means more complex. We find that the probability of sampling a network at random or local volume for short decreases exponentially as the network is trained. But this can't be tested if we can't measure volume.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Russia's Ministry of Digital Development plans to allocate a significant sum to upgrade the country's internet censorship system, known as Technical Measures to Combat Threats (TSPU). Already deployed across local network service providers, the Kremlin aims to spend nearly 60 billion roubles (about $660 million) over the next five years.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Additionally, remember to include your local emergency response agencies in your plan, and provide them with copies of your plan, facility maps, and contact information. Hired local law enforcement – Highly trained security who are experienced in handling a weapon in high-intensity situations.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. In the Brazos Valley and surrounding districts, that threshold is a 262-foot drop in water wells from levels measured in 2000.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This allowed us to create measurable goals backed by actionable data and to personalize our approach to donor engagement. Whether it’s managing donor relationships, tracking progress, or measuring outcomes, leveraging the right technology can transform your organization and help you achieve goals that once seemed out of reach.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The media holding company is the largest US newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation, as it owns USA Today and many local newspapers in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, New. Gannett was recently at the center of yet another case of bad journalism powered by a generative AI algorithm. Read Entire Article

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 24, 2024

With a people-first mindset guiding your impact measurement efforts, you can more effectively strengthen the relationships between your organization and its community. In this quick guide, we’ll explore four quick tips for measuring your nonprofit’s social impact so you can experience these benefits. Let’s begin!

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2021

CSR professionals were called upon heavily during COVID-19 to support their local communities and help employees deal with unprecedented circumstances personally and professionally – efforts that have a clear connection to the three impacted SDGs of no poverty, zero hunger, and good health and well-being.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

This can include large Fortune 500 companies or even local law firms, smaller companies, business-to-business suppliers, or retailers. Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation. Community foundations sponsor many donor-advised funds (DAFs) which are like mini-foundations but they are not public.

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VisionLink

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Connect with your local non-profit associations and look for their Annual Reports to understand efforts, results, and key measures. Not every organization benefits from Giving Tuesday. Search non-profit directories. We like Charity Navigator and the options from Guidestar.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

For now, the team has licensed more than 60 short films by local filmmakers. According to a 2022 study from researchers in Turkey , 44 participants from Kosovo who watched Turkish TV series with subtitles for one to two years saw measurable improvements in all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing.)

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nikes use of local color seems to be part of a larger branding trend that emphasizes small-scale authenticity over brute-force bigness. cities by companies that are not located in those places, and adjusting for the population of each city, a measure of local trademark popularity can be calculated.

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Google Research AI blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

To decide whether to commit to a certain prediction or to postpone the prediction to a later layer, we measure the model’s confidence in its intermediate prediction. In one model variant, we also include a small early-exit classifier trained to classify if the local intermediate layer prediction is consistent with the top layer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

However, if you receive a small list daily or weekly and set aside 10 to 15 minutes each day or week, you can take small effective measures to retain these donors. Your local gym knows how to retain its members, even the members that don’t go regularly. 3) Make Giving Easier For Donors than a Gym Membership.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In a statement sent to The Paper on Wednesday, the company said it is taking a series of measures that involve direct labor costs and indirect labor costs, including administrative expenses, travel expenses, and training costs in the face of a complex market environment. TechNode reporting , The Paper, in Chinese ]

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While unrestricted donations can be used as leaders see fit, strict reporting measures still apply. While a local food pantry can invite local donors to visit, international nonprofits like charity: water don’t have that same convenience. Nonprofits don’t typically want to show a lot of unused revenue in their bank accounts.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced new measures such as a “ limited stay-at-home order ” to slow new coronavirus cases in the state. In May, CEO Elon Musk announced he was reopening Tesla’s Fremont plant even though it violated the local shelter-in-place order.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But when it comes to active measures that show accountability toward progress – such as conducting a pay equity analysis by race/ethnicity, setting diversity targets, and creating re-entry programs – only 10-30% of these companies disclose implementing such measures. Companies need to move from the incremental to the transformational.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

But the most significant upgrade is found in its ability to measure your sleep without requiring you to wear anything. Google claims that the Nest Hub will now learn your common commands over time and then process them locally to speed up responses, as well. Image: Google.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Airly is currently used by more than 500 local authorities in over 40 countries, with 5,000 of its sensors covering a total of 40,000 active measurement points. It also tracks improvements once those measures are made. Communities have used data collected by Airly to lobby local governments to take air quality action. “On

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 7, 2023

In " SQuId: Measuring Speech Naturalness in Many Languages ", to be presented at ICASSP 2023 , we introduce SQuId (Speech Quality Identification), a 600M parameter regression model that describes to what extent a piece of speech sounds natural. SQuId takes an utterance as input and an optional locale tag (i.e., SQuId was no exception.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

4) Event Promotion Whether you’re planning a black tie gala or a local trash cleanup, you need your audience to show up to your event. Open rates , click-through rates , conversion rates , and other metrics measure the effectiveness of your fundraising efforts. If you spread yourself too thin, you might fail to make waves.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Last week, Microsoft told The Verge that its “approach for re-opening Microsoft Store locations is measured and cautious, guided by monitoring global data, listening to public health and safety experts, and tracking local government restrictions.”

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

Under the new system, iOS will check locally stored files against hashes of child abuse imagery, as generated and maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). If the findings hold up, it will be a significant failure in the cryptography underlying Apple’s new system.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The measure will drastically cut down on pollution that fuels climate change: according to a recent study by clean energy think tank RMI, it’ll slash 2.1 Since then, the gas industry has fought back by lobbying for policies that prevent local governments from implementing such bans.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Incorporating data analytics into your GivingTuesday strategy not only helps you refine your storytelling but also enables you to measure the impact of your efforts. Spur Local’s Give Local GivingTuesday campaign.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

One of the challenges of operating a superconducting quantum processor is measuring the state of a qubit without disturbing its operation. Fundamentally, this comes down to a microwave engineering problem , where we need to be able to measure the energy inside the qubit resonator without exposing it to noisy or lossy wiring.

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