The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Facebook has decided to block both Australian users and media companies from sharing links to news articles and related content on its main social network, following the country’s proposed landmark regulatory measure that would force tech giants to pay Australian news organizations for using their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

Their web site tools provide useful information for grassroots advocates or anyone for that matter to stay informed on health care-related topics such as the proposed Medicaid cuts in the budget that are currently being debated in Congress. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it?

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. The Data Deluge in Grantmaking: Drowning in Information Remember the days when grantmaking relied on paper proposals and handwritten reports? Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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Tableau

MAY 24, 2021

In this spirit, Salesforce created the Racial Equality & Justice Task Force to drive systemic change in our workplace and community across four Ps: people, purchasing, philanthropy, and policy. Guided by the nonpartisan policy principles created by our task force, we took an analytical approach to putting our advocacy plan into motion.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 16, 2023

Each assistant response is incrementally constructed by the dialogue manager, which selects candidates proposed by the content providers. Q-learning is a popular off-policy RL algorithm, which does not require a model of the environment to evaluate and improve the policy. Thank you, Google,” or “I’m happy.”) or negative (e.g.,

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Yet, while researchers have enabled robots to hike or jump over some obstacles , there is still no generally accepted benchmark that comprehensively measures robot agility or mobility. First, we train individual specialist locomotion skills (teacher) for different obstacles using on-policy RL methods.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Step #1) G – Get the FOA/RFP/NOFA The first step in developing a grant template with the GRANTS formula is to G et the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) or Request of Proposal (RFP) or NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability): i.e. the grant instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

A social media policy provides the rule book for all staff to participate. The process of creating a social media policy includes discussion about the issues, reviewing policies from other organizations , and reviewing and approving the policy internally. Finally, there will are two specific policy points for Facebook.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

Instead, certain shareholder proposals brought up issues with social and cultural impact, like addressing forced labor , pay equity , and employee NDAs. On Friday, for the first time in years, two proposals actually passed (via CNET ). The measure passed with 54 percent support among shareholders who voted.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

The SEC also proposed an amendment to expand custody rules to include crypto assets, which could limit how any crypto custodian, including exchanges, could interact with crypto. But there are some measured voices. A similar sentiment was expressed by Jake Chervinsky, chief policy officer at the Blockchain Association.

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TechNode

MARCH 19, 2024

China will stick to its plan of becoming an electric vehicle powerhouse on the world stage despite recent signs of weakness in the industry, and will fine-tune policies to deal with challenges including slowdowns and overcapacity, government officials said over the weekend.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

What do you measure every day, week, month, year? For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work – both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang of The California Endowment (TCE) and Allie VanHeast of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KCF) shared how they are using Demographics via Candid in practice to better understand alignment with institutional goals and measure their progress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Many boards have policies requiring the full board (or each member individually) to hit a fundraising goal and this worksheet helps get them organized and on a path to success. For example, could people who donate every year be cultivated for a larger or monthly gift? Cultivation.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

About 45 residents of Austin and the surrounding area spoke about the factory deal on Tuesday at a virtual public meeting held by the Travis County Commissioners Court , the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government. But some Travis County residents still took issue with the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

a proposed input for the client’s blackbox function), from which the service begins to spawn a worker to launch an algorithm (i.e., a Pythia policy ) to compute the following suggestions. The suggestions are then evaluated by clients to form their corresponding objective values and measurements, which are sent back to the service.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs. closures, incidents).

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Another way to establish consistency is to standardize processes and policies regardless of the team manager. Set criteria for contacts, proposals, planning, and forecasting. Be clear in how you measure job performance so everyone on your team understands their duties and the expectations around their role.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Amazon says the proposal was similar to a resolution that was voted down by shareholders last year. It’s not the first time Amazon employees have pushed the company to create better environmental policies. While the proposal was ultimately shot down , it marked the first time tech workers had used their stock to push for real change.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

What do you measure every day, week, month, year? For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work - both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past year, PolicyLink helped drive the conversation around the need for equity-based solutions to COVID-19 with a comprehensive plan and set of policy priorities for pandemic response. It’s critical to connect our data and policy proposals with narrative and communications,” Kirschenbaum says. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Council of Ministers announced adoption of the draft text today which it said contains important measures to cut red tape and remove bureaucratic obstacles for founding and investing in startups in Spain.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Answers on grant proposals if nonprofits were brutally honest with funders. Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Nonprofits Struggle to Implement Diversity Measures, Survey Finds. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Policy Template. Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has begun publicly tallying votes for a proposed Amazon workers’ union in Alabama, which would be the first of its kind nationwide. If Amazon follows this route, organizers will likely have to use protests, political pressure, and other measures to get Amazon to negotiate. Photo by Patrick T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

I asked about a SM policy when I started a new position in a nonprofit institution about seven months ago. Still no policy, seven months later. I was asked by marketing to submit a full proposal to them about Facebook and get their approval before going forward and for anything I post to the group. Impressions or results?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Technical measures alone cannot solve the space sustainability problem. The on-orbit servicing market must be driven by national space policies and international standards that directly support satellite servicing. Who’s taking responsibility? This growth promises to make a serious issue exponentially worse.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How will you measure success for your nonprofit? Develop a conflict of interest policy After you create your bylaws, develop a written conflict of interest policy. Develop a conflict of interest policy After you create your bylaws, develop a written conflict of interest policy. Where will you seek initial funding?

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past year, PolicyLink helped drive the conversation around the need for equity-based solutions to COVID-19 with a comprehensive plan and set of policy priorities for pandemic response. It’s critical to connect our data and policy proposals with narrative and communications,” Kirschenbaum says. .

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2021

A well-designed governance framework significantly reduces confusion over roles and responsibilities, improves communication between teams, and provides consistent policies across channels and teams for a cohesive and strategic approach. What policies exist? Which policies are missing? 3 elements of an effective governance plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

I was only there for 48 hours, but I did two workshops on two different topics ( nonprofit social media managers workshop and measurement ), a discussion on impact measurement in the Beacon Lounge , and lighting talk failure Good By Global (the Social Good Summit at SXSW). But guess what they are thinking ?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Wheeler wrote a proposal to reinstate net neutrality rules, which would allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to charge websites for faster services. The proposal is now being reviewed by the U.S. And as with the proposed net neutrality rules on fixed broadband, less lucrative content providers could end up in the slow lane.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management , which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. The change is important enough to measure and monitor its performance. A major pitfall for maintaining changes in an organization is a lack of training.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2024

Today’s settlement will ensure that Blackbaud prioritizes safeguarding consumers’ personal information and enhances security measures to prevent future incidents.” indicated that a method proposed by the plaintiffs’ expert had not shown how class members would be determined. This is simply unacceptable,” said Bonta via the statement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Confirmed : Broadcom made its proposed merging with VMware official, and with it comes a few kids in the way of some acquisitions VMware made along the way. Meta is doing us all a favor and rewriting and redesigning its privacy policy so, dare we say, we can understand it. The TechCrunch Top 3. Over at Google , U.K.

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Tableau

MAY 24, 2021

In this spirit, Salesforce created the Racial Equality & Justice Task Force to drive systemic change in our workplace and community across four Ps: people, purchasing, philanthropy, and policy. Guided by the nonpartisan policy principles created by our task force, we took an analytical approach to putting our advocacy plan into motion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

We have had independent third party reviews which gave birth to the We Hear You and whistleblowing policies that you all know of today. We have always had a zero-tolerance policy [to] sexual harassment and we will continue to take action when necessary. No exceptions. What Flutterwave and Agboola didn’t address.

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TechNode

AUGUST 1, 2023

Why it matters: The measure is an extension of an existing export ban on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for military use imposed on drone makers by Chinese regulators since August 2015.

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