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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. Do You Need Fund Accounting and Award Management Software?

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

Candid made it easy for us to search for nonprofits that serve the homeless and have tax statements on file. The Moderating Effect of Mission Statement Polarity on Performance , we used a package in the statistical software R Studio to measure the emotional polarity of the 200 mission statements. that serve the homeless population.

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5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI

The NonProfit Times

Many have been subtly lurking for years as features in productivity suites: tools that search for colleague-related emails, files, and meetings, or those that suggest design elements in presentation software. Therefore, the underlying large language model (LLM) matters as it shapes the “most likely” predictions.

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Web Application Frameworks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In the software sense of the phrase, it is the actual piece of software (most often Apache , but sometimes something different.) That software runs in the background, and and listens to requests, then serves up the data. PHP is one of many programming languages. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Candid

In our new book, The Smart Nonprofit , we use the umbrella term “smart tech” to refer to technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its subsets and cousins, such as machine learning, and natural language processes. These technologies automate internal systems and processes, meaning they make decisions for (and instead of) people.

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