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8 Artificial Intelligence Concepts & Terms for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Neural Networks: Algorithms inspired by the human brain that are used in deep learning and other AI applications. 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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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format. Stay tuned for Sharon’s analysis of the dialogue. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions.

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+16 Established Fundraising Consultants

Whole Whale

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. It was founded based on the idea that donor research is crucial to successful development and fundraising operations. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. By Dave Meier.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. Using unstructured qualitative data alone is pretty stupid unless you bring intelligence analysis, link to a quantitative analysis and link it back to decisions. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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