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Two years later: how our fundraising strategy changed overnight 

Candid

Would the government help us? We had no time to plan, so we got creative and looked for alternative revenue sources. We started out with the premise that if we could find the people who care about the kind of work we do, and have a history of funding it, we could make a compelling case to give. . How would our donors respond?

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight. 

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What You Need to Know About Threads

Forum One

In the early days of Musk’s Twitter takeover, you may have seen many of your peers eulogizing the platform and moving to Mastodon or other Twitter alternatives. That’s because alternatives like Mastodon don’t have two key elements that Threads does: infrastructure and people.

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

3rd Sector Labs

Decision 1: Must we have data governance policies before we migrate? Data governance represents ‘rules of the road’ for your donor database. Good data governance addresses data quality issues ranging from how you control your data input processes to questions such as ‘How long will you store old records?

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An Open letter to Crowdfunding Companies from the California Association of Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People donate and volunteer because of a history, an affinity, or a relationship with a nonprofit. If the crowdfunding platform cannot find the nonprofit to which the donor has designated, the platform must contact the donor to request alternatives. Principles for Responsible Crowdfunding.

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Nonprofit Guide to US Digital Privacy Laws: CCPA, SHIELD

Whole Whale

There are also multiple bills moving through legislature in no less than 25 other states and the federal government ( COPRA ) that could become law in 2020. In the event of a data breach, the Act requires prompt notice to affected individuals and to government authorities. What is weird is that these acts begin to treat U.S.

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Sectorness: What does "nonprofit" do for us?

ASU Lodestar Center

In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. Both are governed by boards of directors and can benefit from cutting edge knowledge of board development. The alternative is fragmentation and balkanization, which is no alternative at all. Today, in less than a generation, the idea of a nonprofit sector is common.

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