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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

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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. It was developed at Singularity University and uses technology from the NASA Mars Rover project. It’s basically typing with the mind. How Stuff Works: How Brain-computer Interfaces Work.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

There’s even some strange philanthropy news compliments of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa.

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Build great companies, then help build a great world

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We have a highly efficient system for creating technology that solves problems and delivers value far beyond the confines of Northern California. Perhaps, but when you use your heart, you don't have to check your brain at the door. One example of this is the area of cognitive impairments.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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[VIDEO] Be More Productive, Powerful & Persuasive with Board, Staff & Donors

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In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. I’m not talking about mind tricks or anything.

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