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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

They pull in available government geological data, such as temperature and water height, so that water quality can be estimated multiple times per day. Their approach can be adopted in other communities dealing with contaminated rivers. With the help of DataRobot, the Anacostia Riverkeeper team designed a system to predict if E.

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The Networked Nonprofit – #10NTC

Amy Sample Ward

Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. Different brains – visual vs words. governing through networks. Staff started to see the value in social media and it led to adoption of tools.

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Mr. Manager, Tear down this wall!

Forum One

Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. Spawned by exaggerated fears, governments and content publishers distrusted their constituents or audiences and would only release information once it had been filtered, cleansed, or massaged. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. What are their core values that you can tap into to motivate them to adopt healthy or pro-social behaviors? When nonprofits and government agencies want to create change on a large scale, they???ve

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Words to Avoid—2023 Edition

Candid

Today, some people who are neurodivergent or have intellectual disabilities continue to perceive the “storm” element of the word as violent or negative, while the “brain” aspect places too much emphasis on intellectual ability. But this, too, faces its own challenges and adoption. This is a vibrant discussion that continues today.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws.

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