Google Research AI blog

MAY 19, 2023

Therefore, protecting the privacy of the training data is critical to practical, applied ML. Finally, non-rigorous privacy reporting makes it challenging to compare and choose the best DP methods. Loss of utility : The best method for reducing utility drop is to use more computation.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Strong data security practices are vital for the integrity of your association. Keep reading for helpful best practices to improve your data security strategy. Best practices to guard your association’s data Your members trust you with their personal information. But how secure is your organizational data? What is data security?

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Best Practices for Donor Acquisition and Retention Through Direct Mail. For those new to direct mail , it’s “the process of writing, designing, printing, and distributing hard copy requests for funds to your donors and/or prospective donors.”. But what about people who say that direct mail isn’t worth the investment?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

You want applications from organizations that align to your mission, but the frequency of the requests can easily bog down your processes if you aren’t careful. To avoid overwhelming your team, standardize how you receive and process grant applications at your organization. That’s a Wrap You’ve nailed down your process.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The distance between their farms and the nearest processor is key for smallholder farmers who need to process their crops. And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

A supplemental post to 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the statistics listed below can guide your nonprofit in creating and maintaining a successful online fundraising strategy. DonorDirect ] 48% of donors cite email as their preferred method of hearing updates and appeals from the organization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Before you get too excited, the FDA noted that the pre-market consultation “is not an approval process,” but that it did agree with Upside’s safety conclusion about its products. While Upside’s chicken product is now deemed safe, is it practical price-wise? What is evident is that there is a lot of activity going on in this space.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

How to Stream and Apply Real-Time Prediction Models on High-Throughput Time-Series Data Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Most of the stream processing libraries are not python friendly while the majority of machine learning and data mining libraries are python based. However, defining windows based on event time poses a greater challenge.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data Management A tutorial on how to use VDK to perform batch data processing Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Versatile Data Ki t (VDK) is an open-source data ingestion and processing framework designed to simplify data management complexities. ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) is a typical use case for batch data processing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

Traditionally, fundraising has relied on old methods. Nonprofits are no longer limited by manual processes. Using this custom approach in your fundraising practices can improve donor engagement. They do so through donors’ preferred methods, like email, social media, text messages , or direct mail.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

If you didn’t prioritize accessibility best practices when creating your nonprofit’s website, you could be excluding a significant portion of your nonprofit’s supporters from engaging with it. Regardless of the legality, having an accessible website is simply the best practice. Four Best Practices for an Accessible Website in 2022.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 2, 2024

To keep your financial data organized, you can use either of two primary tracking methods: cash accounting and accrual accounting. In this guide, we’ll discuss what each of these financial management systems looks like in practice, their respective benefits and drawbacks, and how to determine which method is right for your organization.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 5, 2024

Data Science Better Practices, Part 2 — Work Together You can’t just throw more data scientists at this model and expect the accuracy to magically increase. The common practice I witnessed in various places is that each member in the team tries their own “thing”. The main point is not the specific abstraction we’ll come up with.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Written by Findjoo , this is the second post in a series of three about best practices in digital marketing and fundraising for membership organizations and associations. There are dozens of ways to attract new members for your association, however one of the most effective methods is using social media.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At Listen4Good (L4G), we call this process a “client feedback loop.” Here, we share recommendations on effective feedback practices, based on research we carried out with the Irritants for Change , a group of feedback experts and nonprofit rating and information-sharing platforms. or “What could we be doing better?”

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Candid

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Asking better questions that center the needs of those most affected The questions are designed to be applied to any research and evaluation method or design, at any point in the process. supports their involvement by reducing barriers to participation for those closest to the issue—a practice that’s easy to overlook. 

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InfoWorld

APRIL 2, 2024

What once was an outlying practice for startups collaborating in colocated spaces with stickies and whiteboards is now a sophisticated, scalable, and widely used set of agile software development processes and tools. More are seeking guidance for how to align their teams on agile best practices.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

We use a multi-method approach with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to critically examine and shape the social and technical processes that underpin and surround AI technologies. We have developed frameworks to document annotation processes and methods to account for rater disagreement and rater diversity.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. Volunteer management is the process your organization uses to create your network of volunteers. Saves time and money. Accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Here are some best practices for Virtual Meetings to get past that pain: 1-Co-Create Your Team’s Rules of Engagement or Virtual Meeting Norms. Rules of meeting engagement or “meeting norms” are stated standards that refer to processes, preparation and communication practices which can apply to any meeting.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By seamlessly integrating with the registration process, the LWC widgets enhance the overall event experience. Donations and payment methods The Nimble AMS Donation LWC provides flexibility for both guests and logged-in members, supporting single or repeated donations. Learn more

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 22, 2025

Traditional methods of fraud detection include rules-based systems, statistical modeling and manual reviews. These methods have struggled to scale to the growing volume of fraud in the digital era without sacrificing speed and accuracy. In the U.S., Real-time monitoring can detect suspicious activity at the source, as its happening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

It’s the deliberate practice of designing, building, and evolving the positive perception and experience of everyone inside and outside of your ecosystem. If you uncover misalignment and/or a lack of clarity, consider holding a facilitated Leadership Alignment Intensive process , designed to get your team rowing in the same direction.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Join Grant Republic for a free webinar on May 3 that will provide an overview of the Google Ad Grants program and guide your nonprofit through important areas, such as eligibility requirements, potential uses of Google Ad Grants, the application process, and how to remain compliant in the program month after month. <<

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Shanghai Consumer Council has identified shortcomings in auto-renewal practices among 70 mobile apps and 30 short-video platforms, according to Chinese media outlet IThome. The investigation revealed that some apps failed to provide clear renewal pricing or adequately notify users before subscription renewals. While 47.1%

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

What are the top GivingTuesday best practices and fundraising ideas to make you stand out in 2024? 73% of the survey participants stated that these methods had little to no effect on their giving decision. Prepare Early One of our top GivingTuesday best practices for 2024 is to start preparing your campaign early (aka, now).

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 26, 2022

In this article, I will break down the numerous options Marketing Cloud Administrators are able to provide their end users to simplify and secure the login process including an overview of the recently required Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) options. . Say Goodbye to Email Verification. Enter Multi-factor Authentication.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The court clerk of AI is a process called retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG for short. A blog by Lewis and three of the paper’s coauthors said developers can implement the process with as few as five lines of code. That makes the method faster and less expensive than retraining a model with additional datasets.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

Many funders have made a real effort to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their grantmaking practices, but how this looks in practice can vary widely. Grantmakers are looking to one another to share effective practices and case studies. 2. Internal Processes: Grantmakers Must Look Inward.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

When you center your way of working and your organizational practices on a well-integrated CRM system, your CRM can serve as the beating heart of your nonprofit’s culture, empowering every team, improving processes, informing strategy, and stimulating growth. Involve all departments in the process.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our agenda delivers strategies you can put into practice immediately, along with the creative vision leaders need to succeed in digital markets. Kimberly practices not-for-profit and corporate law. Get acquainted with customer analytics, a process that provides more accurate insight into what your members really want.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Matthew Horton is a senior counsel and IP lawyer at law firm Foley & Lardner LLP where he focuses his practice on patent law and IP protections in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning and more. Patents can be useful for excluding others from making, using, selling, or selling an infringing product or method. Matthew Horton.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

Advances in aggregation, anonymization, on-device processing and other privacy-preserving technologies offer a clear path to replacing individual identifiers.”. Google says this practice has led to users not trusting the internet.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2023

By focusing effort on improving and optimizing processes, nonprofits can build a better volunteer experience that attracts and retains volunteers, leading to greater impact and success in achieving their missions. Here are some best practices for nonprofits communicating with volunteers: Leverage multiple communication channels.

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Volunteer Experiment Tips Nonprofit 95

Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Existing models built for these tasks relied on integrating optical character recognition (OCR) information and their coordinates into larger pipelines but the process is error prone, slow, and generalizes poorly. Reversing the plot rendering process demands all such capabilities and can thus serve as an ideal pre-training task.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Dynamic vs. Static Personalization: Move beyond basic “merge and purge” methods to create more engaging, context-aware content. Bill cautioned about data privacy, noting, “You can use the AI for the content creation, but if your organization has standards or practices around data security, make sure to anonymize somehow.”

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