Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Years ago, while working at a regional bank, I was promoted from trainer to leading a training team in another department. After all, people have grown accustomed to your old ways of working. THE GUILT TRAP Moving into a new leadership role can sometimes unsettle colleagues accustomed to our old ways of working.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

And yet, there is a well-established science on human potential, with decades of empirical research resulting in replicable generalizations to predict and explain why some people perform better than others (across different work settings), and why some people develop more than others. How can you work out if you may be one of them?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

But despite that strong showing of support, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are now trying to water down or even roll back the measures their constituents approved. In their lawsuit they claim that wages and paid sick time are separate issues that should not have been combined in a single measure.

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2025

Aligning People: Moving in the Same Direction with Purpose When an organizations people are aligned, theres a clear throughline between the mission, the strategic plan, and the daily work being done at every level. Leaders must constantly ask: Do our people understand the “why” behind our work?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Effective donor retention strategies require you to determine your baseline, define success, and measure your progress toward your goals through reporting. So at their most basic, how do your donor retention strategies work? Presented by: Kelly Ramage , Training Specialist at DonorPerfect. Cost: Free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in creating visually appealing graphics and videos that showcase your work. Here’s how to make it work for you: Identify Relevant Influencers : Find influencers within your niche who are passionate about your cause. In influencer campaigns, measure reach and impressions.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 7, 2023

The Supreme Court has killed the one thing that measurably helped diversify institutions: affirmative action. But because good intentions don’t work against unconscious preferences for in-groups, we need laws that ensure diversity and inclusion.

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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. The good news? Diversifying funding doesn’t have to be a massive overhaul.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

However, many of these legacy systems are becoming increasingly inadequate as the complexity of these processes grow, or are so overwrought that they cannot function without extensive administration – undermining the promise of efficiency by demanding more manual effort to get work done.

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VentureBeat

APRIL 7, 2025

The goal is to have an accurate enterprise AI system, but are those systems actually working? The inability to objectively measure whether RAG systems are actually working is a critical blind spot. Enterprises are spending time and money building out retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 13, 2021

As we work collectively to recover, many small to midsize nonprofits are looking to measure fundraising performance. Taking large institutions out of the equation, we know the fundraising landscape changed profoundly last year. One of the results of the pandemic was that many nonprofits took their fundraising virtual.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Sure, we know we're not supposed to work from bed but just having that as an option is awesome — not that we would ever do it. The height range of the FlexiSpot H7 measures 26 to 41.7 has desktop measurements of 31.5 The large model of the FlexiSpot H7 that's on sale for $99.98 inches wide and 17.7

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Candid

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Funders in the United States can address this risk by promoting safeguardingproactive measures taken to prevent all forms of harm, abuse, and exploitation to all individuals who interact with funders and the organizations they support. Challenges in promoting safeguarding practices The safeguarding landscape in the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Ive conducted some myself, including work on how trust is essential for leaders in cross-cultural business environments. Those practices can create a psychologically safe and supportive work environment. Measure and manage trust. Its a measurable force that drives success. Promote collaboration.

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Charity Village

MAY 30, 2024

Good Works is thrilled to once again bring you this totally free report, packed with all-Canadian data to help you measure your direct mail program against yourself, and against the sector. The 2024 Canadian Direct Mail Benchmarks report is here!

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s how we measure what works and what doesn’t. Testing is about the most basic best practice we have in direct marketing. In fundraising, it’s critical because if there’s one lesson we’ve all learned over and over, it’s that direct mail is counterintuitive. Logic and common sense do not apply. Except when they do.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2021

Your nonprofit just scored that dream partner you worked so hard to prospect and now have big plans in the works, but how do you ensure a prosperous and collaborative relationship? Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. Presented by: Accelerist. Cost: Free.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 6, 2025

By focusing on the metrics that matter and setting clear goalsbecause you cant improve what you dont measure. Measure your retention in three ways: 1. You may find tensif not hundredsof thousands of dollars you could have easily recovered with better donor retention measurement and stewardship. Then, you can dig a bit deeper.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Without data, its difficult to measure success or identify areas for improvement. Encourage Data Literacy Across Teams : Provide training on data interpretation so that all teams feel comfortable using insights to guide their work. This can lead to missed opportunities or ineffective strategies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This will give you a good idea of what works and what doesn’t. 7) Measure your social media engagement. This will give you a good idea of what’s working and what you might need to change. You can also use the data to measure your progress against your goals. Source: Dreamgrow. on Twitter and $5.26 on LinkedIn. Conclusion.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Essentially, this is a folder of Word documents each containing answers to common grant application questions, like organization mission and activities, the greatest challenges our nonprofit faces, how we measure and evaluate program impact, how we recognize funders, etc. ” or “What’s it like working at your agency?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This framework provides a holistic approach, encompassing various dimensions of a digital strategy, including audience engagement, content creation, and impact measurement. Uncover the step-by-step process of defining goals, selecting prompts, implementing initiatives, and measuring impact in this comprehensive guide.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an organization designed, albeit unintentionally, to produce bad leaders. When leaders work at cross-purposes with other leaders, it signals to those they lead to put their own agendas first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. As BoardSource points out, even measuring your ROI is more than just money in vs. money out. This Year Vs. Last Year.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. We seek investments, not for a financial return but for a clear and measurable social outcome.”

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit that measures AGI progress, has a new benchmark that is stumping the leading AI models. By comparison, its 4 percent score on the second edition shows how difficult the test is, but also how there's a lot more work to be done with reaching human level intelligence. Google, OpenAI, DeepSeek, et al.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. Receiving that small gift—along with annual updates on how “their” animal is doing—is measurable, touchable, huggable proof that an annual subscription is a big deal. 4) Give outcomes.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

Step two: Set goals, deadlines, and assign owners If you want to meet your goals, you need to specify the individual, team, or department in charge of working toward that goal. Theyre specific, measurable, attainable, and relevant to your mission, with a deadline to keep you on track. Set milestones to measure success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

Having a content calendar that everyone can access, will not only show the rest of your team what you’re working on but also give them the opportunity to contribute. It’s an easy way to set measurable goals and to align your objectives with your daily posting. 10) Measure success. Be ready to change what doesn’t work.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 13, 2025

The NanoPhone is truly pocket-sized, measuring around the size of a credit card while still offering all the perks of your usual smartphone. There's no additional data plan required; you can insert your current SIM card , and it should work with your existing 4G carrier. 199) through April 27. 199) now through April 27.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2023

If you mostly work with baby boomers, for example, then you may want to prioritize establishing a Facebook page. If you work more with millennials and Generation Z then you might decide it’s more important to establish an Instagram and a TikTok. First ask yourself, what demographics do these stakeholders fall into?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Empower Cross-Functional Collaboration : Create opportunities for different teams to work together on shared goals. By strengthening cybersecurity measures, your association can protect member data, build trust, and maintain a solid reputation. Regular training keeps your team adaptable and prepared for change.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Albeit just a concept device, it worked like any regular Android phone. Credit: Stan Schroeder / Mashable Measuring just 5.75 Enter China's Tecno, which brought the world's thinnest smartphone (according to Tecno) to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona: the Spark Slim.

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Likewise, education nonprofits should think about partnerships with organizations in other sectors to align our work with larger funding trends. These areas require substantial, sustained investment to drive measurable change, which institutional funders have the infrastructure to provide.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

We hope that this work will help us learn about the types of microplastics floating through the air in our study area, Michigan. So, an identification method for polymers should provide a measure of uncertainty in its output. Unfortunately, current methods dont usually provide an uncertainty measure.

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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. Let’s start at the end – Imagine that it’s the day or week after your big event. Focus on Experience.

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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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