sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized. What is an award management system?

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2025

As we see more of our processes move from paper files and folders to purpose-built systems in the cloud, we also see endless possibilities for automation, notifications, and API processes to extend the functionality of our individual solutions. Integration is a hot term these days. And they’re savvy investors.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Gone are the days when each of those systems required a different login and manual data manipulation to get what you needed. Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you. Document signatures.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 28, 2025

Decreased Engagement: Outdated systems make it harder to maintain meaningful connections. Efficiency and Scalability Require Modern Systems Digital transformation isnt just about member-facing tools; its also about improving the internal efficiency of your organization. Stronger Security: Protect member data and build trust.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Extracted from the complexity of foods impact on health, economy, wellbeing, nature, civil strife, and so on, there are common principles that characterize food systems that work for us and for the planet. By foods, he, of course, means real, whole foods and not highly processed edible food-like substances, to use his memorable phrase.

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sgEngage

MARCH 24, 2025

Are you struggling with an inefficient student billing process? But what if there was a way to streamline the process, reduce errors, and improve cash flow? In this blog post, we’ll explore how you can enhance your student billing process from the moment a student enrolls to the final follow-up. You are not alone.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Outdated Technology and Manual Processes In todays digital-first world, outdated systems and manual processes are often the first red flags. Slow or Inflexible Technology : Are your current systems slow, crash-prone, or difficult to update? Here are three signs to watch for and tips on how to turn things around.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

At the will of ever-changing, inequitable user review processes, performance metrics and opaque algorithms, one thing is clear: Workers are grappling with invisible digital overlords, just to make enough to scrape by. But implementing a simple binary system would be easy for most firmseven starting with small tests in certain markets.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The tech giant is betting on a new, community-driven system called Community Notes that draws on Xs feature of the same name and uses the Xs open algorithm as its basis. The rollout will be throttled and, initially, notes wont appear publicly as Meta claims it needs time to feed the algorithm and ensure this system is working properly.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agencys Information Processing Techniques Office. ARPA was funding multiple research projects across the United States, but users of these different systems had no way to share their resources with each other. The year was 1966.

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2025

Its reflected in every interaction, process, and decision. Its a continuous process one that requires strategy, patience, and above all, the ability to take people with you. It must be supported by structures, systems, and people who are equipped to act. Its not a tagline; its the heartbeat of your association.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Organizations are not mere collections of departments, roles, technologies and processes. In contrast, bad design fosters shadow systemsunofficial ways of getting things done that undermine formal processes. A financial services firm, for example, implemented a bonus system heavily weighted toward individual performance metrics.

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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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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To combat these challenges, we recommend optimizing your online donation process from beginning to end, starting with your donation page and finishing with your donor stewardship process. Well show you how to do that through the following tips: Customize your donation process to your organizations needs. Enable recurring giving.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Microsoft's Windows updates over the last couple of years have mostly been focused on adding generative AI features to the operating system, including multiple versions of the Copilot assistant. This bug obviously won't affect systems where Copilot had already been uninstalled, but it has already led to confusion among some Windows users.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 29, 2024

All it takes is time up front, a willingness to work together to pre-plan, and you’ve got an efficient system to help lessen the time spent getting approval because it’s already been favored by the necessary parties. You can feel good about submitting a clear and well-defined proposal, and the reporting process becomes stronger.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

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. Samsung promises seven years of update support like Google, but it takes longer for it to release new operating system versions.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is no simple answer to the question of whether to consider a new constituent relationship management system. That lies in fully understanding the pain points in your current system. Processes: Have you fully analyzed all data processes to understand why you are limited in your current CRM? What about reports?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

As a tech leader at a growing social impact organization, you know that migrating to an enterprise-scale constituent relationship management (CRM) system can be a daunting proposition. The kind of large, clean data sets AI systems require has historically been a point of weakness for nonprofit organizations.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Designing new biology has traditionally been a laborious, unpredictable and artisanal process, said Brian Hie, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data Science Faculty Fellow and an Arc Institute innovation investigator.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And payroll and grant reporting are two areas of your financial processes where accuracy is non-negotiable. But allocating your payroll and time to your grants can be a cumbersome, manual, and time-intensive process. Funders are more likely to invest in organizations that have a reliable and transparent allocation process in place.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

In today’s world, there are plenty of tech options, processes, and formulas to implement and manage data. Tech & Infrastructure Ask all of your departments about the platforms and processes they currently use to collect data and whether or not the current infrastructure is set up to meet their needs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

He ditched radar from Tesla’s production models in 2021, against the criteria of his own engineers ,opting instead for his camera-based AI Tesla Vision system, which relies on cameras and AI alone. As of December 2024, Tesla remains committed to its camera-only Tesla Vision system.

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Association Analytics

MAY 25, 2021

In an attempt to provide a seamless member experience and aggregate all member data in one place, associations have been working with technology partners to perform system integrations through single sign-on, pushing all of their transaction data back into the AMS. There is often ongoing annual integration support costs for EACH integration.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

Any computer that includes an NPU (neural processing unit) is an AI PC, since that chip can offload some tasks from the CPU and GPU. And since every chipmaker has rushed to join the AI bandwagon, most systems released today count as AI PCs. The main difference between a Windows laptop and a Chromebook lies in their operating systems.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Is your association looking for strategies to improve your decision-making process? Association management software (AMS) can serve as your organization’s most important tool to help you gather data and inform your decision-making process. Organizations everywhere are leveraging data to inform their decision-making processes.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

Leading artificial intelligence firms including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta are turning to a process called distillation in the global race to create AI models that are cheaper for consumers and businesses to adopt.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

A statement from Colossal CEO Ben Lamm explained that scientists at Colossal began the process of reconstructing the species by analyzing the DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull. Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right. ”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2024

8 AI Concepts and Terminology Artificial Intelligence (AI): The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Machine Learning (ML): A subset of AI that enables systems to learn from data and improve their performance without being explicitly programmed.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When welcoming a new staff member into your organization, the onboarding process plays a pivotal role in shaping their future at your association. And your Association Management System (AMS) is one of the most powerful tools you have! And your Association Management System (AMS) is one of the most powerful tools you have!

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In this guide, we’ll take a deep dive into the nonprofit website design process. There are a few essential elements needed for your nonprofit website to effectively communicate your mission, process donations, motivate visitors, and more. Choose a content management system (CMS) and purchase your domain name.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While it’s difficult to imagine a stable workforce during a time of labor shortages, your organization can help to ensure uninterrupted processes and continued missional impact by developing a robust job succession planning strategy. Properly identifying these individuals and processes will make any job succession easier.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here are some strategies to ensure your infrastructure and processes are resilient. Embrace Cloud-Based Processes Cloud-based digital processes enable your staff to access necessary systems from anywhere. Take the Long View Disaster recovery is a long-term process. Here are some essential steps.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 10, 2023

I think of the saying “you get what you pay for” when it comes to payment systems and processing for fundraising and recurring gifts. While some software companies may say, “This platform or donor database is free and oh so cool looking,” you may have to clean up much more of a mess later.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

SambaNova Systems takes another tack with its SambaNova Cloud, an AI inference service. Powered by the companys specialized RDU (reconfigurable dataflow unit) processor, the service makes running AI workloads (as opposed to AI model training) faster and more efficient than on GPU-powered systems.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

An eligibility quiz is an essential part of streamlining your grantmaking application process. Here are a few best practices for designing and executing an eligibility quiz, so you can ensure a more efficient and effective application process. Here are six best practices to help you streamline your grant application process.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. The value is in the process and journey. An evaluation of current security practices and systems can pay big dividends.

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