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Why Your Association’s Future Depends on Embracing Digital Transformation

.orgSource

Digital transformation is no longer a choice; its a necessity. In todays technology-driven world, associations that fail to modernize risk losing relevance, members, and revenue. Meeting evolving member expectations and staying competitive requires a commitment to embedding technology into every aspect of your organizations strategy. Despite the urgency, many associations are struggling to keep pace.

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: A Fresh Take for 2025

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: A Fresh Take for 2025 Did you know that peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns are reported to raise 35% more than traditional campaigns? This powerful approach not only amplifies your reach but also builds a stronger connection between your nonprofit and its supporters. By empowering individuals to fundraise on your behalf, youre turning your community into active participants in your mission.

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Where do foundations stand on multiyear funding?

Candid

The research is clear about the many benefits of multiyear funding. According to a literature review by the Institute for Voluntary Action Research, multiyear grants provide greater organizational stability and capacity. They take into account the longer time horizon needed to effect meaningful change, so nonprofits can dedicate less effort toward fundraising and focus more on accomplishing their missions.

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Stakeholder Communication: The Role of Financial Statements

Achieve

The body content of your post goes here. To edit this text, click on it and delete this default text and start typing your own or paste your own from a different source.When you work with various stakeholders to accomplish your mission, it is extremely important to communicate with them effectively. Volunteers, funders, board members, staff, and other community members dedicate their hard-earned funds, time, and energy to your organization, so you must be transparent with them about your operati

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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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7 Ways to Engage Your Donors Without Asking for Money

CauseVox

In the nonprofit world, its easy to feel like every conversation with donors has to revolve around money. But heres the thingbuilding a strong connection with your donors isnt just about asking for funds. Your donors give money to your organization because they truly care about what you do. So how can you make sure they feel truly valued and invited into your work in other tangible ways?

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With the rise of AI, Candid continues delivering philanthropy news with context 

Candid

Since 1995, Candids Philanthropy News Digest has kept readers informed about the priorities of grantmakers, the activities of nonprofits, and evolving trends across the sector. Today, Candid and PND are working to leverage AI technologies to deliver news with even greater speed, depth, and precision. That work includes the use of machine learning to deliver a regularly refreshed news feed in tandem with our daily digest of the latest top stories, and that use of technology will only expand in th

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Transcending the Transaction: Relationship Fundraising

Allegiance Group

Theres one simple truth in fundraising: people will support the things they care most about. However, a single gift doesnt necessarily imply a deep-seated concern for the issues you aim to solve. Say you run an animal shelter and offer address labels as an incentive for someone to make a first gift. In response, a donor writes you a $20 check. Do they really care about animal welfare, or do they just want address labels with your logo?

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The Science Of Personality And The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In the book, Good Judgment , author Richard Davis , PhD , explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. Understanding the science of personality and how to utilize it is the key to exercising good judgment, shares Davis. The ability to read others personalities quickly and accurately, overcoming biases and prejudices that might skew our perception, is critical when making decisions and managing

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Learning from peers to refine your nonprofit funding strategy

Candid

If you work at a nonprofit, you already know the importance of developing a strategy for financial sustainability. But where should you start? A useful early step is to look at what peer organizations are doing. Benchmarking against peers can help you refine your assumptions about what being financially sustainable could look likeor develop entirely new assumptions.

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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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How Segmentation Can Bolster Your Fundraising Efforts and Foster Donor Relationships

NonProfit PRO

Connecting with your donors on a personal level can help strengthen your fundraising efforts. Here's how segmentation plays a role.

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Now Available On Demand! Our Certificate in AI for Marketing & Fundraising Program 👩🏽‍💻

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our 2025 Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing & Fundraising program is now available on demand! The reviews are very positive and without a doubt,AI literacy is a must-have skill for 2025 and onward. Customized for nonprofit professionals,the webinar seriesprovides a timely, honest approach to using AI for nonprofit marketing and fundraisingand illuminates why human creativity is more valuable than ever.

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DeepSeek-R1 Now Live With NVIDIA NIM

NVIDIA AI Blog

DeepSeek-R1 is an open model with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. Instead of offering direct responses, reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 perform multiple inference passes over a query, conducting chain-of-thought, consensus and search methods to generate the best answer. Performing this sequence of inference passes using reason to arrive at the best answer is known as test-time scaling.

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"Everything I say leaks," complains Mark Zuckerberg in a memo that was leaked

TechSpot

The saga kicked off during Mark Zuckerberg's all-hands meeting with Meta employees on Thursday, where he vented about recent leaks exposing his private remarks to staff.

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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!

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Free Donor Journey Webinars

NonProfit PRO

What is a donor journey? Put simply, its the way the relationship between a donor and a nonprofit shifts and evolves over time. Join Cherian Koshy, CFRE, and Kelly Ramage, DonorPerfect Learning and Development Manager, for two free webinars that will help you map out personalized and scalable donor journeys.

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How to Get Donations From Companies

Wild Apricot

Looking to secure donations from companies but don't know where to start? We'll guide you through requesting donations and building strong relationships with companies.

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Amphitrite Rides AI Wave to Boost Maritime Shipping, Ocean Cleanup With Real-Time Weather Prediction and Simulation

NVIDIA AI Blog

Named after Greek mythologys goddess of the sea, France-based startup Amphitrite is fusing satellite data and AI to simulate and predict oceanic currents and weather. Its work thats making waves in maritime-shipping and oceanic litter-collection operations. Amphitrites AI models powered by the NVIDIA AI and Earth-2 platforms provide insights on positioning vessels to best harness the power of ocean currents, helping ships know when best to travel, as well as the optimal course.

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Apartment landlords can force tenants to use specific ISPs under new FCC action

TechSpot

The proposal, originally put forward by former FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in March 2024, sought to prohibit arrangements that required tenants to pay for specific internet services, even if they preferred alternative providers.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

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.

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Employing the Prosci ADKAR Change Management Model to Drive Lasting Change

NonProfit PRO

Here's how the Prosci ADKAR Model for change management can help your nonprofit create a meaningful, lasting impact.

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Best Practices for Creating an Effective Eligibility Quiz in Grant Applications

sgEngage

There are thousands of organizations in the world doing amazing work in your impact area. As a funder, you probably wish you could fund them all. Unfortunately, limited resources mean you need to make decisions about the specific community you serve. To avoid wading through funding applications that dont meet your program criteriaand wasting the time of those nonprofits submitting those applicationsyou should include an eligibility quiz before the formal application.

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Kernel Methods in Machine Learning with Python

Machine Learning Mastery

Kernel methods are a powerful class of machine learning algorithm that allow us to perform complex, non-linear transformations of data without explicitly computing the transformed feature space.

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Atari releases Asteroids watches for game's 45th anniversary – they're already sold out

TechSpot

The result of a collaboration between Atari and luxury watch brand Nubeo, the Asteroids watches are available from the latter's website in five different styles, each with a different colored band: nebula blue, plasma pumpkin, supernova red, nova nightfall, and celestial citrine.

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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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The NonProfit Voice Ep 91: Recurring Giving in the Subscription Economy

NonProfit PRO

In this episode, Dave Raley of Imago Consultingjoins Mark Becker to chat about sustainable giving strategies.

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Leveling Up User Experiences With Agentic AI, From Bots to Autonomous Agents

NVIDIA AI Blog

AI agents with advanced perception and cognition capabilities are making digital experiences more dynamic and personalized across retail, finance, entertainment and other industries. In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast , Chris Covert, director of product experiences at Inworld AI , highlights how intelligent digital humans and characters are reshaping interactive experiences , from gaming to healthcare.

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Data Pruning MNIST: How I Hit 99% Accuracy Using Half the Data

Towards Data Science

Building more efficient AI TLDR : Data-centric AI can create more efficient and accurate models. I experimented with data pruning on MNIST to classify handwritten digits. Best runs for furthest-from-centroid selection compared to full dataset. Image byauthor. What if I told you that using just 50% of your training data could achieve better results than using the fulldataset?

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France's answer to ChatGPT fails spectacularly, goes offline after three days of bizarre responses

TechSpot

The Linagora Group, a company that is part of the OpenLLM-France consortium developing the model, launched Lucie last Thursday. The ChatGPT-like open-source bot was promoted as being "especially transparent and reliable." Unfortunately, it seemed closer to Google's old Bard chatbot or even Microsoft's infamous Tay than ChatGPT.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.