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A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022

Candid

This framework not only breaks down the components of the key seven indicators of school quality, but it also serves as a practical guide for educators who are designing and operating school models to fulfill a community’s shared vision of student success.

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

Global Giving

Here’s what the collaboration helped these organizations achieve: 1. By using data about each loan, including daily popularity, the Kiva team worked with DataRobot to build dozens of models to identify relationships in the data. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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Philanthropy Delivers New Promise of Quality Education for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

For example, across East Africa, our teams work with Youth Champions to elevate awareness of the drivers of hunger, including the climate crisis, conflict, and chronic inequality. The champions transform local attitudes and behaviors related to nutrition, help foster collaboration, and engage decision-makers.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

These experts will come together to research, participate in a collaborative design sprint, test ideas with the community, and ultimately work with Salesforce pro bono volunteers to develop and launch a solution that will be free to all. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”.

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Flying High: Some Truly Creative Ways that Drone Technology is Being Utilized

Byte Technology

But now, in parts of Africa and Asia, drones being flown at night have been able to detect the presence of poachers and give immediate locations that allow wildlife rangers to deploy quickly and stop the horrible killings.