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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As it turns out, these models were originally developed decades ago and many are written in Fortran !

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Model selection. Implement a model that aligns most closely with the partners’ mission, capacity, and vision. See AIM Alliance’s eight collaborative models , with conditions, challenges, and benefits assigned to each. Measure and share impact.

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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Terri has over 30 years of success in higher education, politics, international affairs, and nonprofits, including roles as Provost at Menlo College, Vice Provost at University of Texas at Austin, and positions on numerous boards. She has a B.A.

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

Global Giving

Anacostia Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect and restore the Anacostia River, which weaves around the Washington, D.C. By using data about each loan, including daily popularity, the Kiva team worked with DataRobot to build dozens of models to identify relationships in the data.

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Predicting the Future: Driving Fundraising Outcomes with Models

Connection Cafe

My first experience with modeling happened at the University of Washington development office in the fall of 1992. My job, as the director of research, was to use the modeling results for prospecting—but also to sell them to the directors of development in the schools and colleges. I don’t make models.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired. Washington? We were following in his footsteps, on a path he helped create!

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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

Until Salesforce.org’s newly-released Grants Management tool, there was no comprehensive grantmaking product that fit our unique model and approach. Before joining Malala Fund, she served as the director for philanthropy at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). Fund for UNICEF and the Peace Corps.