Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

On March 13, 2022, Meme Styles, president and founder of MEASURE , joined Candid CEO Ann Mei on the stage at SXSW for their talk: Using Data to Advance Racial Equity ( available to watch now on YouTube ). Candid's team reached out to Meme recently to learn more about the work MEASURE is doing in Austin, TX.

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Measure Education Meme Conversation 98

Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” And your perspective on technology policies, I think, will vary a little bit depending on your role in the organization. The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Shonali Burke, who we interviewed in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , let me know about an exciting project she is working on with the Center for Community Change that is hosting the 8th Annual Change Champion Awards (in DC) today (Sept. What exactly are the right metrics for measuring this transformation?

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Measure Community Organization Social 97

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

This is not to imply that throwing more staff or money at the problem will necessarily solve it-- leadership, management, and prioritization are also critical.). Behind the scenes, however, they should be leading the way to ensure that operations run smoothly and that policies, procedures, technologies, and training support the institution.

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Service Retention Donor Evaluation 183

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But there are structural problems that create inequality which, in combination with climate change, pose an existential threat to the nonprofit sector itself. Tragically, the most severe consequences will likely be borne by the world’s poor, who did the least to cause the problem. We are facing a future of growing human need.

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Tips Nonprofit Philanthropy Government 86

Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Shockingly, the latest Association Trends Study reports that just 34% of association professionals rank their organization as an excellent technology user when protecting member data with additional security measures like multi-factor authentication (MFA). Prioritize your members by protecting your organization’s data. Download now

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But even if that doesn’t happen, PC makers have a problem today. On the other, I hate hate hate that it’s happening because of Apple’s ridiculous App Store policies. So if the Apple silicon-based iMac continues to be as big a leap over the M1-based MacBook Air as it has been in the past, look out. So let’s come back to right now.

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Laptop Measure Benchmark Google 145

Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

LMS security involves measures to safeguard a learning management system (LMS) from unauthorized access, data breaches, disruption, modification, and other security threats. Disseminates automated notifications for policy updates and acknowledgment in employees’ preferred languages, ensuring everyone is up-to-date.

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Train Training Measure Data 59

Blue Avocado

JULY 16, 2024

What should be measured? Don’t get me wrong: Aspirational language is great for identifying what the value is , but it can be difficult to measure employees against this standard. Demonstrated behaviors might include: We offer constructive solutions to identified problems. We do not see problems, only opportunities.

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Measure System Design Demonstration 80

sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Define Your Needs What is the problem you are really solving for? Ensure that your data is protected with industry-standard security measures. Ensure that all partners have robust security measures in place and comply with relevant data protection regulations. Look for other organizations like yours that use the integration.

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Grant System Effective Management 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Research and policy analysis. Civic engagement.

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Metrics Build Fund Social 116

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One nonprofit leader shared six lessons learned from a bad board experience organizational policies to help your nonprofit set expectations, prevent dysfunction, and avoid a laundry list of problems. It presents a serious and systemic problem but it doesnt dwell on hand-wringing and finger-pointing.

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Review Grant Nonprofit Lesson 78

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Real-world robot navigation in human-centric environments remains an unsolved problem. In particular, Transformers models have achieved stunning advances across various data modalities in real-world machine learning (ML) problems. To measure the distance between the robot trajectory and the expert trajectory, we use Hausdorff distance.

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Time Demonstration Policy Attention 135

The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

For game developers who choose to use the Play Store, we have consistent policies that are fair to developers and keep the store safe for users. While Fortnite remains available on Android, we can no longer make it available on Play because it violates our policies. You can still install Fortnite on Android, however.

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Google Game Policy Software 145

sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2025

Economic fluctuations, policy changes, climate events, and rapid advances in technology are just a few of the factors fundamentally reshaping how the nonprofit sector fulfills its mission. Theres an opportunity to expand upon what funders consider to be the best measures of success.

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North Carolina Philanthropy Foundation Grant 71

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. Measuring success of social media in your work can be a tricky thing to do, especially as we all explore and experiment with the tools every day and many tools and processes are still very new. Public voting process.

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Community Social Media Case Study Haiti 207

Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

That possibility became a reality for AARPs Public Policy team when we partnered together to improve a digital tool its constituents use to inform long-term services and supports (LTSS). We designed a website using data visualization to communicate the results of LTSS policies in states in a way thats easier to understand and remember.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. What are the right tools to help measure success? Measure program success, not just analytics. According to David Almacy, the best five tools to measure social media ROI right now are: TweetDeck. Simply Measured.

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Social Media Channel Difference Media 122

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 Buildings are big problem for New York City’s efforts to tackle climate change. Berkeley, California, became the first city in the US to ban gas hookups in new construction in 2019.

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New York New York City Measure Pledge 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. We should be looking at the problem the other way around — figuring out how best to get knowledge into our heads.

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Conference Grant Learning Network 112

Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Now, the company says it’s taking steps to ensure it moderates its platform to help the most vulnerable victims of hate speech and abuse — instead of treating the problem as one that affects everyone in equal measure.

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Facebook Washington Content Group 111

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The new year has begun with a more relaxed stance on AI policy and DeepSeeks supposed better mousetrap, giving CIOs pause on which direction to go. Start with a clear understanding of the business problem, create requirements, and ensure the solution will generate a measurable advantage, such as increased productivity or cost savings.

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North America Application Adopt California 116

The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

SpaceX’s satellite internet service is a technological marvel — when it works The problem with reality is that it is very irritating. The Verge has not written a story about broadband access or telecom policy in recent memory without a chorus of commenters responding that Starlink would fix it in some way. Access gap ? Data caps ?

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Review Internet Policy United States 145

Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. Donorbox defines KPIs as “a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a nonprofit (or another type of organization) is achieving its key organizational objectives.” KPIs should be clear, quantifiable, and adaptable.

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Data Metrics Measure Goal 122

VisionLink

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This helps measure need and response, and mitigates fraud. The problem comes when a client needs to give more information than they are comfortable releasing to gain help, and particularly when that information is expected by governmental agencies.

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Government Resource Accessibility Charity 100

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As AI and automation handle tasks once dependent on human creativity, intuition, and problem-solving, we risk outsourcing not just labor but also our intellectual and emotional core. AI may offer convenience, but convenience can come at the cost of resilience, problem-solving, and self-reflectionskills critical to effective leadership.

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Awareness Skills Evaluation Leadership 103

3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

Your success, however, is masking a serious problem. It applies to outcome measurements, web traffic, social media data, emails, image files, document versioning, backups, backups of backups, etc. Measuring lost productivity is difficult, but rest assured, if your data quality is falling, then your lost productivity is rising.

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Data Donor Database Mail 100

sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2023

While protective technology is imperative, cybersecurity is primarily a people problem. Insurance companies have tightened policies to mitigate their losses as claims have risen with ransomware payouts. Policies vary widely. Ensure that any policies you implement are measurable and enforceable.

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Practice Policy email Phone 131

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We also designed improved sublinear algorithms for different flavors of clustering problems such as geometric linkage clustering , constant-round correlation clustering , and fully dynamic k-clustering. PDLP has been used to solve real-world problems with as many as 12B non-zeros (and an internal distributed version scaled to 92B non-zeros).

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Research Google Technique Model 110

The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Finally, in the last post, I will also provide some resources for anyone who wants to contribute to this (or similar) research, in the form of both open problems and some thoughts on how these problems could be approached. A nave answer might be to measure their L 2 -distance.

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Research Learning Method Policy 40

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 1, 2025

Yet, beyond legal measures, a lack of awareness and resources continues to leave survivors vulnerable. And last year, Californias governor signed several new gun control measures, which expanded the states restrictions on gun ownership and introduced new protections for survivors of domestic violence.

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Advocacy Support Tech United States 63

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. What I see the most often in this section is that grant writers include a flowery narrative with a lot of information about problems.

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Grant Award Project Proposal 116

Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

The scope of the problem seems really big…but is bad data really preventing you from getting your work done? Measure Progress: Stay on top of your data. Establish Data Governance Policies: Put a data source inventory in place if you don’t have one. Have you allocated time for routine maintenance? Okay, take a deep breath.

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Data Analytics Associations Registration 169

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. It isn’t a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem. Measure success against predetermined outcomes. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data.

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Evaluation Generation Method Slides 98

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you company is experiencing a constant or newly presented problem, a change will need to be made. Strategic Change – this involves changes to the policies and processes. Remedial Change – when a problem is identified and a solution is implemented. Consider the problem or opportunity at hand. Measure Your Progress.

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