Candid
APRIL 10, 2024
As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.
sgEngage
MAY 25, 2023
The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. As they wait, organizations, ideas, and potential progress suffer, and the riskier and newer a proposal feels, the more it is placed in the wait-and-see category.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 10, 2008
Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have. What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08 Be Helpful.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 20, 2008
Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 9, 2007
The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. On the website, participants can propose exhibit projects, join teams, and maintain presences for themselves and their exhibits in progress. So what does this collaborative platform look like?
NTEN
MAY 5, 2015
However there is immediate value to the partners in the form of a dashboard and metrics for applying for grants, etc. However, Michael Weinstein from the Robin Hood Foundation had me dusting off some of those old finance-for-good feelings as he explained the foundation’s rigorous strategy for analyzing grant proposals.
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