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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

Whether data is on your nonprofit’s radar as a tool for good or not, you will be inspired by the stories of these three organizations. Kiva applies the power of AI to make financial support accessible. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day. To improve equity in your programs?

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0

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22 Must-Circle Nonprofits on Google+

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As traffic continues to grow , new tools and functionality are added almost daily. So, if Google+ wants to keep us hooked long-term, I do think Google+ is going to have to come up with a new functionality or tool that is completely unique and very simple and easy-to-use ( think Pinterest ). Google+ is definitely a work in progress.

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Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The webinar earlier this week from the Lean Start up team, Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations, did begin to address this gap with a discussion and examples from Akash Trivedi of Kiva Zip, a pilot program from the nonprofit Kiva and Christie George from New Media Ventures.

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The 14th issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Fundraising in the Digital Age"

NTEN

Plus, learn how to fundraise year-round with holidays, and the NTEN Voices section: community tweets, examples of good donor stewardship, and we ask Food & Water Watch: How do you practice what you preach?

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The Power of Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And Kiva ([link] builds on already existing networks (including that network of networks we call the Internet) to give people the opportunity to loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. We’ll focus on the fancy tools of mapping and graphing; we’ll have debates about terminology and definitions. The Value of Specificity.

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Great reads from around the web on June 19th

Amy Sample Ward

blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started. Find me on Delicious for more! Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : The Profit in Nonprofit … - Here is a great (long!) Are you already tweeting from a foundation - what has your experience been?

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