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25+ Artificial Intelligence (AI) Marketing & Fundraising Statistics for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

These AI marketing and fundraising statistics can help your inspire your nonprofit to adopt the use of generative AI for marketing and predictive AI fundraising. To learn more about AI, visit our AI Hub for Nonprofits and earn our Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing & Fundraising.

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How to use Gemini to generate unique backgrounds in Google Meet

Engadget

Googles Gemini AI has been getting upgrade after upgrade, now being able to handle data analysis in Google Sheets and using your past conversations with its chatbot to inform better responses. One of Google's latest offerings lets Gemini generate an original background during your virtual meetings for a personal touch before getting down to business.

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Navigating Economic Uncertainty: Smart Tips for Small Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

Economic uncertainty can feel like uncharted territory, especially for small nonprofits that operate on tight budgets and unwavering dedication to their missions. When issues like high prices, Federal deficits and spending, politics, and tariffs plague our daily lives, its hard to know what tomorrow will bring. The good news is that challenging times bring opportunities to plan smarter, strengthen strategies, and deepen your impact.

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More concise chatbot responses tied to increase in hallucinations, study finds

Mashable Tech

Asking any of the popular chatbots to be more concise "dramatically impact[s] hallucination rates," according to a recent study. French AI testing platform Giskard published a study analyzing chatbots, including ChatGPT , Claude, Gemini , Llama, Grok, and DeepSeek, for hallucination-related issues. In its findings, the researchers discovered that asking the models to be brief in their responses "specifically degraded factual reliability across most models tested," according to the accompanying b

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Wandering supermassive black hole spotted devouring star

TechSpot

Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole located on the outskirts of a galaxy 600 million light-years from Earth, where it was observed consuming a nearby star.

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"Prompt engineering" is no longer a job, but a skill

TechSpot

Just two years ago, prompt engineering was the talk of the tech world a seemingly essential new job born from the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. Companies were eager to hire specialists who could craft the right questions for large language models, ensuring optimal AI performance. The role was.

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Aarki launches Encore as privacy-first mobile growth platform

VentureBeat

Aarki has launched Encore, a next-generation machine learning platform built to deliver full-funnel growth for mobile marketers in a privacy-first landscape.

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How Dignity Is Different From Respect

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In their book, Millennials Who Manage , authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart , quote Donna Hicks's explanation about how dignity is different from respect : Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth. Therefore, Espinoza and Schwarzbart recommend that leaders treat those they are leading with dignity and follow Hick's 10 Essential Elements of Dignity : Accept

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AI Brown-Nosing Is Becoming a Huge Problem for Society

Futurism

When Sam Altman announced an April 25 update to OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model, he promised it would improve "both intelligence and personality" for the AI model. The update certainly did something to its personality, as users quickly found they could do no wrong in the chatbot's eyes. Everything ChatGPT-4o spat out was filled with an overabundance of glee.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

Wired

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.

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Scientists Just Found Who's Causing Global Warming

Futurism

Are you sitting down? Because there's some news that might shock you. A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for an astonishing two-thirds of observable climate warming since 1990. Basically, that small minority of the wealthiest among us contribute nearly seven times as much to extreme climate change as the entire lower-earning 90 percent of the planet.

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From silicon to sentience: The legacy guiding AI’s next frontier and human cognitive migration

VentureBeat

Humans have always migrated, not only across physical landscapes, but through ways of working and thinking. Every major technological revolution has demanded some kind of migration: From field to factory, from muscle to machine, from analog habits to digital reflexes.

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Wind Farms Accused of Stealing Each Others' Wind

Futurism

You can't own the wind, but you can, apparently, "steal" it. Enter "wind theft" a phenomenon that wind farms across Europe are encountering as more of these renewable power plants pop up across the continent, the BBC reports. As powerful and vast as the currents of air that wrap our planet may be, it turns out the effects of hundreds of turbines tapping into them aren't negligible.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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How to turn on iPhones anti-motion sickness feature

Mashable Tech

Looking at your phone while in a moving vehicle is often a recipe for nausea. Yet as unpleasant as motion sickness is, passenger princesses the world over remain determined to test the limits of their upchuck reflexes daily. Fortunately, Apple 's iPhone has a feature to help combat motion sickness and save car interiors: Vehicle Motion Cues. Here's how to activate it.

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MSG Is (Once Again) Back on the Table

Wired

Monosodium glutamate has a poor reputation in the US, which is both unfortunate and based on misinformation. A spate of new cookbooks highlighting its powers is here to awaken our senses.

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30 years ago, ‘Hackers’ and ‘The Net’ predicted the possibilities—and horrors—of internet life

Fast Company Tech

Getting an email in the mid-90s was kind of an eventsomewhere between hearing an unexpected knock at the door and walking into your own surprise party. The white-hot novelty of electronic mail is preserved in amber by a ridiculous 1994 film: reverse sexual-harassment thriller Disclosure. It opens with a little girl perusing what was once known as a family computer before casually shouting, Daaaad, you got an email!

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Feather & Bone founder Shubhangini Prakash on the efficiency of motherhood

Mashable Tech

The night that Shubhangini Prakash went into labor with her second child was the same night she learned about her acceptance into the prestigious Target accelerator — and it started right away. This meant that the owner of the waterless and nontoxic skincare brand Feather & Bone , the products for which she designs and formulates herself, was hard at work from her hospital bed, a brand new baby in her arms.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat's Meows Using AI

Futurism

Doodle Translate Chinese tech company Baidu is working on an artificial intelligence-based translation system that could finally decode the greatest language mystery in the world: your cat's meows. As Reuters reports , the company filed a patent with the China National Intellectual Property Administration proposing an AI-powered system to translate animal sounds.

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The Last of Us Season 2, episode 5: Who is Leon?

Mashable Tech

We're digging further into new characters and storylines in The Last of Us Season 2 , with one hell of a basement situation opening up in episode 5. A name that comes up during the opening scene is Leon. But who is he, how does he relate to the storyline, and does he appear in Naughty Dog's game ? Let's go through the details. SEE ALSO: 'The Last of Us' Season 2: What are the differences between the game and the HBO show?

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Scientists find lead really can be turned into gold (with help from the Large Hadron Collider)

Engadget

One of the ultimate goals of medieval alchemy has been realized, but only for a fraction of a second. Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Unlike the examples of transmutation we see in pop culture, these experiments with the LHC involve smashing subatomic particles together at ridiculously high speeds to manipulate lead's phy

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The Last of Us Season 2, episode 5 teases that all-important Pearl Jam song

Mashable Tech

Did you hear that? It's the sound of a song we've been waiting for in The Last of Us , fluttering out the window. In Season 2 , episode 5, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) takes to the stage of Seattle's crumbling Pinnacle Theater, where instruments remain set for a performance never given. In a similarly moving moment to Ellie's rendition of "Take On Me" in the previous episode, she hesitantly picks up an acoustic guitar — an ever-painful reminder of her music-teaching, late father Joel (Pedro Pascal

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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17 Giftable Subscription Boxes (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Wired

We have options for coffee lovers, foodies, bookwormsand even those who are hard to shop forwith these gifts that keep on giving.

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The Last of Us Season 2, episode 5: The Joel flashback at the end, explained

Mashable Tech

We're still a long way from being over what happened to Joel (Pedro Pascal) back in The Last of Us Season 2 , episode 2 , so suddenly seeing him again at the end of episode 5 is a bittersweet surprise. But it's also a slightly confusing one, given how brief the moment is and what's come before it. So what exactly is the deal with the episode's ending, and what might it mean for what's to come next?

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The Justice League is not impressed in Peacemaker S2 teaser

Ars Technica

John Cena reprises his titular role for the second season of Peacemaker. What's a reformed villain gotta do to impress the Justice League? That's the dilemma faced by John Cena's titular antihero in the first teaser for S2 of Peacemaker , James Gunn's Emmy-nominated series spun off from his 2021 film, The Suicide Squad. We've got the same colorful cast of characters, but the new season will serve as something of a "soft reboot" as part of the new DC Universe (DCU) franchise.

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The Last of Us Season 2, episode 5 finally brings in the big guns: SPORES!

Mashable Tech

Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann 's HBO adaptation of The Last of Us has stuck pretty close to the Naughty Dog games, making changes where it makes sense for TV. However, one major element has been missing from the series, one deliberately omitted from both seasons so far: spores. But as of Season 2 , episode 5, the airborne threat has landed. Not good.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!