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

Global Giving

Have you exchanged data with like-minded organizations to grow your impact? The UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center improves treatment guidelines using insights from machine learning. Have you used your data to be more accountable to your community? To improve equity in your programs?

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July Cause Awareness: Disability Pride Month

Qgiv

A disability is any condition of the mind or body that makes it more difficult for someone to partake in certain activities and may impair their ability to participate easily in normal daily pursuits. There is so much diversity in the world, but one type of diversity that often gets overlooked or forgotten is disability diversity.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

I had a chance to meet Mark Godwin and Dr. Neesheet Parikh who have started a Santa Clara, California-based company called Wear MD. He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. It’s basically typing with the mind. Wearables for Good.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Like-minded folks can accomplish a lot, and expertise is not to be undervalued, but sometimes they can hit roadblocks. Carrie Avery is president of the Durfee Foundation , a family foundation in Los Angeles, California. Learn to relax.

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Force Multiplier Podcast Episode 1: Addressing Hidden Hunger in our Communities

Saleforce Nonprofit

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. Of course, nutrition insecurity is far from a new problem, and it’s gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. OUSD is Focused on Holistic Student Support.

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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me. Waste of time , I would think to myself.

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