Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
Melody Wilding is a professor of human behavior at Hunter College and was recently named one of Insider s most innovative career coaches. Her background as a therapist and emotions researcher informs her unique approach, weaving evidence-based neuroscience and psychology with professional development. She is the author of Trust Yourself. Whats the big idea?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 31, 2025
By Tasha Van Vlack ,founder of The Nonprofit Hive a free platform that builds one-to-one connections between nonprofit professionals for peer learning and support. Many nonprofits pour time, energy, and resources into launching a membership platformCircle, Slack, Mighty Networks, or a custom-built forumexpecting it to foster an active, engaged community.
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Fast Company Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
Things are tough right now, with complexity and uncertainty in the world driving stress and worry. Youre probably trying to stay positive and muscle through. But theres an important difference between keeping appropriately optimistic and acting with toxic positivity. If youre faced with toxic positivity in yourself or others, its probably based on good intentions that have run amok.
Whole Whale
APRIL 1, 2025
The most successful nonprofits dont just ask for support. They grow it, bit by bit. Quick donation wins feel greatbut if you want to meet your fundraising goals year after year, you need more than a viral moment. You need a digital fundraising strategy that builds trust, deepens relationships, and turns curiosity into generosity time and time again.
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!
sgEngage
MARCH 31, 2025
Your relationship with your grantees is more than a transaction. But its difficult to drive impact when your grantees cant access their funds, arent sure when the funds are arriving, and dont have a clear understanding of their requirements for using the funds. An efficient grant distribution process builds trust with your grantees and improves transparency across your organization.
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Bloomerang
MARCH 31, 2025
Almost every nonprofit needs a good grant writer. For those organizations that cant afford a full-time staff member, grant consultants can play a pivotal role. Grant consultants are often experienced grant writers and fundraisers whove chosen to work with multiple organizations instead of being on staff with a single nonprofit. While many people think of grant consultants as simply people who write grants on contract, they can be so much more!
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
There are brief moments when Annisa Faquir forgets that the Little Red Hen Coffee Shop, the Altadena diner her grandmother founded a half century ago, burned down in the Eaton Fire. You think, I can go grab somethingoh wait, its in ashes, said Faquir, who has worked at the shop since her mother, Barbara Shay, took over the family business seven years ago.
Mashable Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
Online scams aren’t just becoming more common, they’re changing in approach, and getting harder to spot. These days, there are scams all over the internet, and while some are relatively easy to spot, others are highly sophisticated – and you might not notice them until it’s too late. That said, a bit of knowledge of online scams and how they work can go a long way.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! Im Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning.
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.
.orgSource
APRIL 1, 2025
The association industry is at a crossroads. The rapid pace of digital transformation, changing member expectations, and economic uncertainty require associations to rethink their business models and adapt to new realities. Association 4.0 : Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption provides a roadmap for associations to thrive in this evolving landscape.
Ars Technica
MARCH 31, 2025
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access "to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies," despite "objections from senior IT staff who feared it could compromise highly sensitive government personnel information" and lead to cyberattacks, The New York Times reported today.
Futurism
APRIL 1, 2025
NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone a mission. The space agency announced last week that it had awarded SpaceX a "modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city. If you dont see anyone using a wheelchair, he says, its not because they dont existits because they have nowhere to go.
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NonProfit PRO
APRIL 3, 2025
Whats standing between your nonprofit and greater impact in 2025? From donor shifts to budget stress, discover the 9 biggest fundraising challengesand how to overcome them with smarter strategies and better data. Unlock insights that help you grow giving, boost efficiency, and engage high-value donors. Dont miss this must-read for nonprofit leaders navigating a rapidly changing fundraising landscape.
Ars Technica
APRIL 1, 2025
As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore, had to take manual control of the vehicle. But as its thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move Starliner in the direction he wanted to go. He and his fellow astronaut, Suni Williams, knew where they wanted to go.
Mashable Tech
APRIL 3, 2025
Liam Neeson takes the reins from Leslie Nielsen in 2025's The Naked Gun reboot, and the teaser trailer promises that the Taken star is here for an outrageously good time. The film, directed by Akiva Schaffer ( Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping ) and produced by Seth MacFarlane, stars Neeson as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., who's following in his father's footsteps and leading Police Squad.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
New volunteers get trained in Lexington, Ky., to help out at CASA of Lexington in April 2023. AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel As gerontologists social scientists who study aging populations we envision a future in which older people leave a doctors visit with a prescription to go volunteer for something. Does that sound far-fetched? Theres scientific research backing it up.
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!
Engadget
APRIL 3, 2025
This week's Nintendo Direct provided much more info about the Switch 2 but didn't go too deep into the nitty-gritty details of what powers the console. That left NVIDIA, the Mario maker's hardware partner on the console's processor and GPU, to fill in some blanks with a blog post published on Thursday including the first confirmation that it uses Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) tech.
Ars Technica
APRIL 3, 2025
As AI hype permeates the Internet, tech and business leaders are already looking toward the next step. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a machine with human-like intelligence and capabilities. If today's AI systems are on a path to AGI, we will need new approaches to ensure such a machine doesn't work against human interests. Unfortunately, we don't have anything as elegant as Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
Mashable Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
Google.org , the tech giant's philanthropic arm, is investing millions of dollars into getting nonprofits up to speed on generative AI , part of a massive funding effort to empower organizations to adopt the tech, including Google 's own AI offerings. Channeled through community foundations in Atlanta, Austin, Columbia, New York City, and San Francisco, more than $10 million in grants have been awarded to technical nonprofits that will then supply individualized AI support to organizations in th
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. On one side: Georgetown, the fastest growing city in America for three years straight, which in 2023 signed a contract with an investor-funded enterprise to quickly begin importing vast volumes of water from the Simsboro Formation of the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer, 80 miles to the east.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
Engadget
APRIL 3, 2025
YouTube is updating the video editor for Shorts to better compete with the likes of TikTok and Instagram Reels, and teasing some AI-powered features that are coming later this year that might make it stand out. The new and improve editor will let users "make precise adjustments and edits to the timing of each clip with zooming and snapping," along with the usual option to rearrange and delete your footage.
Ars Technica
MARCH 31, 2025
Oh, ExoMars, what a long, strange trip it has been. Are you ever going to go to space? The ExoMars mission represents Europe's third attempt to land successfully on Mars, and at a cost of more than $1.3 billion. there is a lot riding on its success. But success is far from assured for a mission that has been whipsawed by geopolitical tensions, budget cuts, and an ever-changing architecture over the last 20 years.
Mashable Tech
APRIL 1, 2025
Back in August 2022, password manager LastPass suffered a massive breach. A still-unknown cyber criminal successfully targeted one of LastPass' four DevOps engineers who had access to the decryption keys for the cloud storage service. Using the engineer's stolen credentials, the hacker was able to infiltrate LastPass' systems undetected. This breach lasted for months and continued even after LastPass believed the threat had been contained.
Fast Company Tech
APRIL 3, 2025
Another day, another recall: On Tuesday, popular chocolate brand Tony’s Chocolonely recalled two of its bars, Tony’s Dark Almond Sea Salt Bar (6.35oz) and Everything Bar (6.35oz), following 12 reports from consumers who found small stones “not filtered during third-party almond harvesting and the almond processing process.” The bars were distributed nationwide from February 7 toMarch 24, 2025 and sold in various retail stores, as well as at Tony’s online store. R
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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