Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The way we work is rapidly evolving amid societal and industry changes in a post-pandemic world. One shift I’m seeing is the rise of those I call the “Autonomists”—highly skilled professionals who are opting out of traditional employment structures in favor of independent, project-based work.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

You can’t work in the social good sector without being very familiar with the concept of paying it forward. If you’re looking for fundraising ideas that really work, put our experts’ advice to good use. Best Fundraising Tips for Donor Engagement What works for one supporter does not necessarily resonate with another.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agencys Information Processing Techniques Office. They all worked slightly differently, and it was frustrating to remember multiple procedures to log in and retrieve information. The year was 1966. He had three massive terminals crammed into a room next to his office.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Four years later, the project has delivered far more ramps than initially promised and well beyond Reykjavk to additional Icelandic cities, garnering a fitting name change to Ramp Up Iceland. Thorleifssons work is beginning to change this. They ended up building more than 1,700 ramps and again came in under budget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 31, 2021

The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. At the core of the project is the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey. Why the Open Data Project? Open Data Project Sponsors.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Too many of us feel unseen, undervalued, and unhappy at work. But fitting in at work? Work is not familyits a professional environment where people collaborate to achieve shared goals. When belonging feels fragile, our bodies stay on high alert, making it harder to focus, collaborate, and bring our best selves to work.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Extensibility projects like these can be intimidating to get started. Luckily, low-code and no-code solutions make embarking on these projects more accessible than ever, allowing you to customize your fund accounting software without extensive technical expertise.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

They established national AI committees and working groups that spanned learning and development experts, local chapter leaders, and technological advisors (often Googlers). The most important question Project Evident asks when working with nonprofits on AI adoption is 'Why AI?'"

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The psychological contract hasnt just shifted around where we work. More than 40% of Gen Z employees have refused a work assignment because of ethical concerns. In the workplace, they are driving the conversation around social justice, mental health, and work-life balance. This provokes a lot of anxiety about meaning.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

How.orgSource Can Help: We work with associations to create actionable, future-focused strategies that align with industry trends and member needs, ensuring your vision is resilient and achievable. How.orgSource Can Help: We help associations design timelines that keep projects on track while celebrating progress toward future readiness.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 13, 2025

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Google has been finding ways to work generative AI into everything else it does, so why not its collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP)? Researchers might make a little headway on that front soon with the help of Google's open AI model and some Pixel phones.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

While talent intelligence platforms (TIPs) serve an important purpose in identifying skills, they are inherently limited and never designed to address the fundamental question: How is work itself structured and how is it changing? Its not just creating new skill gapsits redefining work at its core.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 8, 2025

On Monday, John Carmack, co-creator of id Software's Quake franchise, defended Microsoft's recent AI-generated Quake II demo against criticism from a fan about the technology's impact on industry jobs, calling it "impressive research work." Read full article Comments

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. To access the complete data, please take the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey and then visit the Open Data Project Hub.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 3, 2025

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. Researchers at DeepMind have been working on this problem and have released a new technical paper (PDF), which you can download at your convenience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2021

The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. Why the Open Data Project? The Open Data Project [ español , français ] was created to address that lack of diversity in data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2024

A well-crafted RFP attracts the right partners and lays the foundation for successful projects. Talk to peers about their experiences with similar projects. Read other RFPs to understand what works. Outline a specific need or problem and what the ideal outcome of your project looks like. It’s incredibly demoralizing!

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll need to understand both elements and how they work together, for a successful end product. Perhaps making sure your co-workers do their part in helping make the project a success is also critical. Perhaps making sure your co-workers do their part in helping make the project a success is also critical.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Optimizing the use of our fundraising CRM gives us room to take on new projects and adopt new features without a daily struggle against our own databases. Of course, it hasnt been all sunshine and daisies, but our team is organized, and our systems and processes are delivering the first-rate work our constituents deserve.

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Wired

MARCH 19, 2025

Billy Basso talks about the seven years he spent developing his hit game, and what hes up to next.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

When construction started on a new affordable apartment building in Brooklyn, most of the work on the site happened very quickly. Interest payments for the project average around $100,000 a month. After all of the units were attached, the crew added continuous insulation to the outside and finished other elements like the roof.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. See also the Noun Project. It’s a great online home for decks from speaking engagements and presentations about your organization’s work. Iconfinder :: iconfinder.com.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Empower Cross-Functional Collaboration : Create opportunities for different teams to work together on shared goals. Cross-functional projects can bring fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to complex problems. Encourage Experimentation : Create a test and learn culture where new ideas and pilot projects are welcomed.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 31, 2025

Grant consultants are often experienced grant writers and fundraisers whove chosen to work with multiple organizations instead of being on staff with a single nonprofit. In this article, were going to delve into some surprising lessons weve learned from both working as grant consultants and coaching grant consultants.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a lifetime, we spend approximately 90,000 hours working. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. There’s a reason they call it work. Let’s make joy a priority.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

And while this measure works to an extent for nonprofits to understand the direct financial benefits of an investment, on its own, it fails to connect those metricswhich are the business of charitable workto the social impact of that same work. If you can establish a positive ROM, then you have a project worth pushing forward.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Is your accounting software not working for your organization? But very few nonprofit organizations only need to subdivide revenue and expenses into a single project, fund, or program. If you need up-to-the-minute balances for your organizations projects, every time you add one, you will add significant volume to the chart of accounts.

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Engadget

APRIL 17, 2025

News of the project was first shared in 2024, when Variety reported that Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer was attached to develop and write the show. The studio appears to be using the same strategy with Pacific Rim that worked with its Godzilla-and-King-Kong-starring "MonsterVerse" franchise.

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Futurism

APRIL 13, 2025

Using a clever system of elastic bands and rapidly projecting images, a team of researchers in Spain have created three-dimensional virtual objects that you can physically manipulate, allowing you to directly poke and prod at them without the need of a boring controller. In the end, the team went with the elastic bands.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In honor of Veterans Day, we are reposting an e-newsletter we shared in fall 2020 highlighting the flexibility and adaptiveness of our partners at Wounded Warrior Project to sustain support. Through Peer Support Groups, warriors connect with each other, work to overcome challenges, and develop a renewed sense of community.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

to conduct a first-of-its-kind study, looking at how a range of rice species reacted to increases in temperature and carbon dioxide, both of which are projected to occur as more greenhouse gas emissions are released into the atmosphere as a result of human activities. He teamed up with researchers from China and the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This really was never designed with the thought of access in mind, says Helen Schneider, associate principal and project manager at Perkins & Will , the architecture firm that redesigned the camp. Dittmer says hosting corporate events at the camp is becoming another way to advance the mission.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

The company's conversational Gemini Live will soon be able to view live video and screen sharing, a feature Google previously demoed as Project Astra. It can be hard to keep track of which Google AI project is whichthe 2024 Google I/O was largely a celebration of all things Gemini AI. Gemini Live with video.

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Futurism

APRIL 14, 2025

Coinciding with the delay, Apple told staff it was taking its AI chief John Giannandrea off leading the Siri AI project. More than half a dozen former employees who worked in Giannandrea and Walker's group, per the report, blamed poor leadership for the project's struggles.

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Candid

JANUARY 7, 2025

Every nonprofit wants donors who are deeply connected to the work they fundsupporters who dont just write checks but are invested in the mission. This approach projects a polished image but limits donors understanding of the nuances and complexity that underlie the work. Transition from project funders to organizational leaders.

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