The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These are all hard problems without an obvious solution. Above all, they require us to work in concert, running towards these problems on behalf of our missions and our communities. The post The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face Whats Next appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Every year, Employee Appreciation Day comes and goes, prompting organizations to rush into gratitude modeoffering lunches, shoutouts, and small gifts. But if March 7 is the only time leaders express appreciation to their teams, theyre missing the mark. Its like only telling your partner I love you on your anniversary.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

In effect, this means that D-Wave has achieved quantum supremacy on a useful problem, something it says nobody else has yet been able to accomplish, and which is detailed in a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science. Its what everybody aspired to achieve, and were quite excited about it.”

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In November, a new online artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT was released in a free test mode. It can hold a conversation, answer questions and create eerily accurate written statements. It reminded me of an old saying, “If you don’t want to be replaced by a robot, stop behaving like one.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. “These problems have been discussed for decades, often with very little progress. So the approach was really to give people no excuses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 16, 2024

Small and medium-sized nonprofits, in particular, often lack the resources and expertise to craft compelling narratives, engage supporters, and clearly define the problems they address. This narrative should highlight the problem, the nonprofit’s approach to solving it, and the tangible outcomes of their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2024

It was just a matter of time until a problem would arise. We used simple passwords that could have been easily guessed by AI and we had the bad habit of using the same password for multiple websites. In December, we spent multiple days updating our passwords for 50+ websites using a password management tool.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 28, 2025

While human understanding of this internal LLM "decision" process is still rough, this kind of research could lead to better overall solutions for the AI confabulation problem.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 11, 2024

No problem. Missed AWS Nonprofit Generative AI Week? You can now access these sessions on-demand. Discover how generative AI can revolutionize your organization's operations, from enhancing donor engagement to streamlining program delivery.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 15, 2025

ET, when 1,265 users reported the problem. As of this writing, most of the reported problems had to do with 4chan’s website (71%). Another 24% of users reported problems with the server connection, and another 5% said they could not post. Fast Company has reached out to 4chan for comment and did not hear back immediately.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 8, 2025

In Denmark, as in many countries, the hormone melatonin is a prescription drug for treating sleep problems, mostly in adults. Doctors are supposed to prescribe it to children only if they have certain developmental disorders that make it difficult to sleepand only after the family has tried other methods to address the problem.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 3, 2025

Researchers at DeepMind have been working on this problem and have released a new technical paper (PDF), which you can download at your convenience. If today's AI systems are on a path to AGI, we will need new approaches to ensure such a machine doesn't work against human interests.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 27, 2025

Which suggests, in their words, that the problem is "animus" against minority drivers. The results confirm that minority drivers get more tickets, and they pay higher fines when they do. And the results also show that minorities aren't in any way more likely to speed or engage in unsafe driving.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

They're annoying autodialers at best and illegal scams at worst, and they're part of an ongoing problem the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been trying to crack down on for years. The FCC has extended its efforts to robotexts in recent years, calling them a "growing problem" and one of the "latest scamming trends."

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Bloomerang

MARCH 24, 2025

Evaluate – Take the time to gather all relevant parties and think critically about the problem. Ask questions to get to the root of the problem. Taking the time to identify the problem will only help strengthen not only future proposals, but programming as well. Were the original goals too ambitious?

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

TL;DR: Sleep tight with a pair of SleepEEZ Noise-Blocking Wireless Earbuds on sale for $25.99 (reg. $34). Between loud roommates, snoring partners, kids, and neighbors with no concept of a normal time to vacuum, it's a wonder anyone gets any sleep at all.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just missing," he added. But if AI just gives the right answer, it isn't forcing newcomers to synthesize different possibilities and really grapple with thinking through the problem. Crickets,"he wrote. Ask about edge cases? Blank stares." "The

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Here are three foundational areas that contribute to the persistent problems related to the failure of establishing strong digital fundraising programs. For some organizations, digital fundraising efforts are humming along quite nicely. But for most, this scenario is a distant utopia.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Statements of these are symptoms of a big problem at your non-profit. They are a sign that you, your board, or your team are waiting for a “magic bullet” to solve your fundraising problems. If he could just hear about our work, he’d give us the million dollars we need to build our new building! Magic Bullets are Tempting.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The only people who are going to review it are those with a problem. As long as the metrics theyre tasked with achieving are just that, achievable and realistic, there should be no problem with having a personalized dashboard or a centralized database that allows them to share the key points with their team and their boss.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Some major donors are shifting away from donating to nonprofits because, in their minds, nonprofits always ask for money, and the problems are never solved. Although the U.S. is a generous nation, Americans are skeptical about charities. Here are two critical ways that the sector can pivot to address this.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 24, 2025

Google has been investigating the problem, and the news isn't good. Users started piping up over the past several weeks, posting on the Google support forums , Reddit , and other social media that their treasured Timeline data had gone missing.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 15, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely on the support of others to help them tackle some of the world's most challenging problems. One of the most powerful ways of reaching supporters is through storytelling. Here are tips to help your organization become a more honest and ethical storyteller.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

The pair embark on an epic quest to bring her back home to Earth, but there's just one problem: A mysterious force is stopping their return. SEE ALSO: All our burning questions for 'Doctor Who' season 15 Ncuti Gatwa returns as the Doctor, and this time around, they've got a new companion in Belinda Chandra (Varadu Sethu, Andor ).

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 23, 2024

Nonprofits are seeking to reverse job sector shortages, but this problem is complex and evolving. Here are some potential solutions.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Clearly define the social problem the organization is working to solve. Define your value propositionwhy your organization is the best positioned to solve this problem. We often see that leadership hasnt had hard conversations to determine the problems the organization will and will not tackle.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Over the weekend, Samsung purged the One UI 7 update from its servers, which indicates that a serious problem has occurred. Samsung began the process of updating millions of smartphones around the world to its latest One UI 7 ( Android 15 ) software last week, but that process has now been halted.

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Futurism

APRIL 15, 2025

And it's like, people have that problem?" I've the opposite problem. If I have the opposite problem, then I need the opposite solution," TheCrookedMon argued. "And they were like, 'Do this, do that, you'll look more attractive, you'll get more women." "And I get so many DMs I don't even have time to get through them all." "If

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The PCI-SIG, the standards body responsible for the design of the new connector, claimed that the design of the 12VHPWR connector itself was sound and that any problems with it should be attributed to the manufacturers implementing the standard.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 1, 2025

Many users reacted to the news by deleting their data , though tech problems apparently related to increased website traffic made that process difficult. The company said that "any buyer of 23andMe will be required to comply with our privacy policy and with all applicable law with respect to the treatment of customer data."

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Ars Technica

APRIL 1, 2025

The company delayed shipments for a few weeks to correct a problem where a faint yellow band would appear across the bottom of the screen, something that has apparently been fixed for current versions of the reader (Amazon says it has made "the appropriate adjustments" to fix the problem but hasn't been specific about what those adjustments are).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

It’s a problem that has long littered the landscape in Kampala, the capital, where buveera are woven into the fabric of daily life. Can agriculture escape the plastic problem? They show up in layers of excavated dirt roads and clog waterways. ” Without political will, much of the onus falls on companies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

Thats the problem. Generative AI is like a ginormous digital Encyclopedia Britannica that compiles the internets knowledge base and immediately plops it on a screen. It is essentially a vast rearview mirror. ChatGPT and Gemini repackage all that information, rendering it into headlines, social posts, and emails crafted to feel human.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 21, 2024

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Reddit ran into some problems on Thursday. A Reddit outage started roughly between 3 and 4 p.m. ET on Thursday and is currently ongoing at the time of publication. Tens of thousands of users reported the outage on Down Detector ( Note: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector ), and this reporter can personally confirm the outage.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 6, 2025

The problems you are trying to solve are complex and the potential organizations you can support are many. Show the innovative courage of sharing your knowledge to help the next organization evolve and take the next step forward towards unraveling these complex problems. Yes, this will include vendors.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Some examples of rule-bender language include develops creative and innovative solutions to problems, communicates in a tactical and persuasive manner and thinks outside the box.

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