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Charity Insights Canada Project Sector Snapshot: Governance, Diversity, and the Role of Founders

Charity Village

MAY 23, 2025

The Charity Insights Canada Project (CICP) conducted a survey to review governance practices across the Canadian charitable sector. The survey delved into board effectiveness in relation to the fulfillment of governance responsibilities, engagement in governance activities, and founder involvement.

Canada

Canada Charity Government Roles

5 ways to project enthusiasm in a job interview

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

So, here are five ways to project excitement about the role throughout the job interview process: 1. In fact, nearly 47% of hiring managers say a candidates keen interest in the job is the most important factor in determining whether they get the new role. Enthusiastic candidates are more likely to fit in, stay longer, and do great work.

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Interview Job Project Language

Applications are now open for CIRA Net Good Grants: Supporting communities, projects and policies that make Canada’s internet better for everyone

Charity Village

MARCH 24, 2025

Applications are now open for CIRANet Good Grants, supporting communities, projects and policies that make Canadas internet better for everyone. CIRA prioritizes funding projects that benefit Northern, rural or Indigenous communities or students (K-12 and post-secondary).

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Grant Policy Application Internet

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Project Defiant is Sony's first wireless fight stick for PS5 and PC

Engadget

JUNE 5, 2025

It doesn't have an official product name yet, but it's currently codenamed Project Defiant. Sony has just unveiled the first wireless fight stick designed by the company itself. The arcade-style controller uses the PlayStation Link wireless technology to connect to the PS5 and the PC.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back?

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4 Must-Read Reports on AI in Nonprofit Marketing & Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 4, 2025

Published by Cherian Koshy / US ] 3) The AI Equity Project The AI Equity Project empowers nonprofits to adopt AI ethically, focusing on data equity and responsible use.

Fundraising

Fundraising Report Marketing Nonprofit

Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Four years later, the project has delivered far more ramps than initially promised and well beyond Reykjavk to additional Icelandic cities, garnering a fitting name change to Ramp Up Iceland. The goal of Ramp Up Reykjavk was to install 100 ramps within a year; the project finished it in half the time and under budget.

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Iceland Ukraine Environment Design

What Apple is doing with 25,000 acres of former cattle pastures in Brazil

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

But a major restoration project is now underway on an area nearly twice as large as Manhattan. The environmental group Conservation International is working on the project with an unlikely set of partners: a forestry company and the tech giant Apple. One of the first investments, in 2022, was Project Alpha in Brazil.

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Brazil Conservancy Project Uruguay

OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation

Wired

MAY 7, 2025

High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT.

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The Denan Project - Leveraging WhatsApp for Good

As part of building a new supporter journey (from making a one-time donation to becoming a sustaining supporter), The Denan Project set out to shorten the time between the first donation and the recurring donations.

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Sony shows off Project Defiant, its first wireless fight stick for PS5 and PC

TechSpot

JUNE 5, 2025

At the heart of the controller is a custom-designed digital stick featuring toolless interchangeable restrictor gates (circle, square, and octagon). You also get buttons with mechanical switches, a touchpad similar to the one found on the DualSense wireless controller, and an onboard storage compartment for spare restrictor gates and the.

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Project Digital Design

L.A. has 24,000 tiny vacant lots across the city—these designs show creative ways to use them for housing

Fast Company Tech

MAY 29, 2025

But in a new project, the city is working with architects and developers to build prototypes of more affordable homes that make use of small vacant lots scattered throughout the city. Twenty-one winning designs were announced today, along with another 20 projects that received special recognition. 4X4X4 by Light and Air.

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Design Los Angeles Proposal Long Beach

In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28.

Texas

Texas San Antonio Project Conservancy

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agencys Information Processing Techniques Office. ARPA was funding multiple research projects across the United States, but users of these different systems had no way to share their resources with each other. The year was 1966.

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Internet History Wikipedia United States

Creating Your 2025 Roadmap to Excellence

.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

Steps to Develop Key Initiatives: Focus on High-Impact Areas: Prioritize initiatives that align with your vision and offer the greatest potential for growth, such as digital transformation projects or targeted training programs. Define Accountability: Assign clear ownership for each initiative to maintain momentum and accountability.

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Create Associations Metrics Culture

Nonprofits get $10 million grant from Google to expand AI

Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Project Evident sees this collaboration as one way to strengthen the voices of nonprofits and the communities they serve in the important ongoing conversation about AI’s role in society," said Sarah Di Troia, managing director of Outcomes AI at Project Evident. "[Our

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Grant Google Nonprofit San Francisco

Amazon might start using humanoid robots to deliver packages

Mashable Tech

JUNE 5, 2025

This is according to a new report by The Information , which claims that the project will soon begin testing in Amazon facilities in San Francisco. The idea is for humanoid robots to ride around in Rivian electric vans (Rivian is an electric vehicle company partially owned by Amazon) and deliver packages to customers.

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Amazon San Francisco Test Software

Promoted to a leadership role? Here’s how to make the ‘player-to-coach’ transition seamlessly

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

A helpful response might be, Thats true, and moving forward, my focus is on working on this strategic project development for my team. This might sound like: Jane handles this project now. This might sound like: Id like my team to take on this project moving forward, so I can uplevel.

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Roles Leadership Train Training

How Californias high-speed rail is already helping the planet

Mashable Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

Best of times: Privately-funded Brightline is in pre-construction for a project connecting Las Vegas to the L.A. The project is even struggling to finish a first phase by the early 2030s that will connect Central Valley cities like Madera, Fresno and Bakersfield.

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California San Jose San Francisco Las Vegas

AI is helping rescue a nearly extinct bird species

Mashable Tech

MAY 29, 2025

Though the organisation has most frequently made headlines due to de-extinction efforts such as its genetically modified "dire wolves" or its woolly mammoth mice , Colossal considers such work to go hand-in-hand with conservation projects such as this. On the left, a team member sets up a trail camera. Colossal helped fill this gap.

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Samoa Help Conservancy Audio

Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

Ars Technica

APRIL 8, 2025

However, Microsoft is up front about the limitations: "We do not intend for this to fully replicate the actual experience of playing the original Quake II game," the researchers wrote on the project's announcement page. Read full article Comments

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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

Ars Technica

MARCH 13, 2025

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice.

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Program Learning Advice Generation

Building Blocks of Excellence: Strategy, Culture, and Technology

.orgSource

DECEMBER 31, 2024

By implementing comprehensive digital literacy programs and promoting cross-departmental projects with.orgSources guidance, the association saw a 40% increase in innovative project initiatives and a more cohesive, motivated workforce.

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Culture Strategy Technology Build

Cyberpunk 2 is officially in pre-production, but it's still at least four years away

TechSpot

MAY 29, 2025

In its Q1 2025 earnings results, CD Projekt Red said that the team behind Cyberpunk 2077 sequel Project Orion, now called Cyberpunk 2, had completed the game's conceptual phase and had progressed to pre-production. Read Entire Article

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Product Phase Project Results

A 4 million-square-foot data center is planned for this Alabama town—but residents are pushing back

Fast Company Tech

MAY 13, 2025

Of nearly a dozen residents interviewed by Inside Climate News, none expressed support for the project as planned. Efforts by Inside Climate News to speak with public officials in Bessemer about the proposal, called Project Marvel, were met with silence. billion proposal from politicians charged with representing the public.

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Alabama Data Proposal Project

Using Your Fundraising CRM Software to Its Full Potential

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Optimizing the use of our fundraising CRM gives us room to take on new projects and adopt new features without a daily struggle against our own databases. In minutes, a data check query can bring me up to speed with a spreadsheet containing all the organizations CRM goals, projects, and training needs by category.

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Software Fundraising Database Blackbaud

Google I/O 2025: What to expect from Android 16, Android XR and Gemini

Engadget

MAY 2, 2025

After sending (at least) three XR projects to the graveyard , you would think even Google would say enough is enough. We know Google is working with Samsung on a headset codenamed Project Moohan. I suspect Google will also have something to say about Project Mariner , the web-surfing agent it demoed at I/O 2024.

Google

Google Hints Project Conference

UK is going full Minority Report with ‘murder prediction’ research

Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

Initially dubbed the "homicide prediction project," this tool used data from UK police forces, possibly including victims and witnesses as well as suspects. This project is being conducted for research purposes only. Civil liberty watchdog Statewatch discovered the program through Freedom of Information Act requests.

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Research Report Law Structure

Gemini Live will learn to peer through your camera lens in a few weeks

Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

The company's conversational Gemini Live will soon be able to view live video and screen sharing, a feature Google previously demoed as Project Astra. It can be hard to keep track of which Google AI project is whichthe 2024 Google I/O was largely a celebration of all things Gemini AI. Gemini Live with video.

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Camera Learning Google Video

Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins

Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Google has been finding ways to work generative AI into everything else it does, so why not its collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP)? Researchers might make a little headway on that front soon with the help of Google's open AI model and some Pixel phones.

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Google Model Create Teach

Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean

Futurism

APRIL 19, 2025

The project, dubbed SeaCURE, began operating a small-scale trial this year on England's south coast, the BBC reports. A flurry of projects have explored capturing carbon directly from the atmosphere. Still in its infancy, the project will remove no more than 100 metric tons of carbon per year.

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Activism Active Activities Project

Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara

Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

Taara is the latest project to spring from XAlphabets experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymos self-driving carsand has its origins in a concept called Loon. That envisaged shooting beams of light between thousands of balloons floating on the edge of space to provide phone and Internet services across remote areas.

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Internet Second Life Brain Phone

3 Signs Your Organization Needs a Nonprofit Accounting System

sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

But very few nonprofit organizations only need to subdivide revenue and expenses into a single project, fund, or program. If youre like most organizationseven ones with smaller budgetsyou need to manage your revenue and expenses by individual funds, projects, programs, departments, and cost centers. The reason is simple.

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System Organization Nonprofit Chart

ZiMad launches World Hunger Day event in its flagship games

VentureBeat

MAY 28, 2025

In honor of World Hunger Day, game developer and publisher ZiMad is collaborating with the international nonprofit organization The Hunger Project to help fight hunger. ZiMad is launching a special “Small Actions. Big Change” campaign across two of its flagship games Magic Jigsaw Puzzles and Domino.

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Hunger Game Collaboration Project

YouTuber builds world's strongest handheld laser, melts titanium and fractures diamonds

TechSpot

JUNE 5, 2025

His latest project was a build "so far off the laser-danger chart the eye-hazard is incomprehensible." Drake Anthony better known to his 3 million YouTube followers as styropyro is a chemist and YouTuber with a fondness for building huge lasers and playing with electricity and chemicals. Read Entire Article

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YouTube Build Chart Project

If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program

Futurism

MAY 29, 2025

But in the wake of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's latest disastrous Starship failure the company's third in a row some are wondering if we weren't better off when space flight wasn't beholden to the whims of a few billionaires, but as a national project under NASA.

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Government Program Poll Comparison

How to motivate your team in times of uncertainty

Fast Company Tech

MAY 20, 2025

These employees knew that it was possible that their projects or current roles might not even continue. But he knew that any project he asked them to focus on could be cut, and any efforts could turn out to be wasted time. Its distracting to believe that your job, or at least your current project or function, might become obsolete.

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Team Time Brain Process

Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch

Futurism

APRIL 13, 2025

Using a clever system of elastic bands and rapidly projecting images, a team of researchers in Spain have created three-dimensional virtual objects that you can physically manipulate, allowing you to directly poke and prod at them without the need of a boring controller. "We In the end, the team went with the elastic bands.

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5 unexpected benefits of procrastination

Fast Company Tech

MAY 28, 2025

Procrastination gives you time to reflect If you dive into a project immediately, you may not have taken the time to ponder the problem, explore the solution, or determine how you want to present your work. You can also do more of your own research to help ensure you have all the necessary information before you tackle your project.

Benefit

Benefit Reflection Research Journal

The Cyberpunk 2077 sequel finally makes it to preproduction

Engadget

MAY 28, 2025

In 2022, CDPR shared a roadmap describing "Project Orion." Several weeks ago, the CD Projekt Red team responsible for the next big game set in the Cyberpunk universe completed the project's conceptual phase," the publisher wrote. "As CD Projekt Red said on Wednesday that its sequel has moved into pre-production.

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Phase University Project Game

AI generators say there are no Black surfers. This group is out to change that

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

As part of the project, 16 photographers donated their time to capture more inclusive images to help create what theyre calling the first-ever Ethical AI Guidebooka framework that helps creators and developers make AI more like the real world. If youre part of an AI company, we welcome your collaboration, too, says Mesfin.

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Generation Group Change Reflection

Mastering grant writing: Essential tips for securing funding

Charity Village

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Does the very mention of mandatory documents, project plans and grant budgets cause you to panic? Does the concept of grant writing cause you to wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat? Do you look at grants as a labyrinth of technical terms, deadlines and impossible expectations?

Grant

Grant Tips Fund Causes

This Brooklyn apartment complex was built like a Lego set

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Image: courtesy RiseBoro] A project of this size, with 57 apartments and four stories, could have taken 30 months to build, says Yolanda do Campo, director of construction at RiseBoro , the nonprofit developer behind the project. Interest payments for the project average around $100,000 a month. Instead, it took only 22 months.

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Jordan Pennsylvania New York City Project

Mysterious U.S. spaceplane returns to Earth, and Space Force snaps photos

Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

The plane was originally built by Boeing for NASA , but the project transferred to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, in 2004. This was the seventh mission of the X-37B, which orbits 150 to 500 miles above Earth to explore reusable space vehicle technologies and conduct long-term space experiments.

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Photo California United States Contest

Charity Insights Canada Project Sector Snapshot: Governance, Diversity, and the Role of Founders

5 ways to project enthusiasm in a job interview

Webinars

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Applications are now open for CIRA Net Good Grants: Supporting communities, projects and policies that make Canada’s internet better for everyone

Webinars

Project Defiant is Sony's first wireless fight stick for PS5 and PC

A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

4 Must-Read Reports on AI in Nonprofit Marketing & Fundraising

Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

What Apple is doing with 25,000 acres of former cattle pastures in Brazil

OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation

The Denan Project - Leveraging WhatsApp for Good

Sony shows off Project Defiant, its first wireless fight stick for PS5 and PC

L.A. has 24,000 tiny vacant lots across the city—these designs show creative ways to use them for housing

In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

Creating Your 2025 Roadmap to Excellence

Nonprofits get $10 million grant from Google to expand AI

Amazon might start using humanoid robots to deliver packages

Promoted to a leadership role? Here’s how to make the ‘player-to-coach’ transition seamlessly

How Californias high-speed rail is already helping the planet

AI is helping rescue a nearly extinct bird species

Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

Building Blocks of Excellence: Strategy, Culture, and Technology

Cyberpunk 2 is officially in pre-production, but it's still at least four years away

A 4 million-square-foot data center is planned for this Alabama town—but residents are pushing back

Using Your Fundraising CRM Software to Its Full Potential

Google I/O 2025: What to expect from Android 16, Android XR and Gemini

UK is going full Minority Report with ‘murder prediction’ research

Gemini Live will learn to peer through your camera lens in a few weeks

Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins

Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean

Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara

3 Signs Your Organization Needs a Nonprofit Accounting System

ZiMad launches World Hunger Day event in its flagship games

YouTuber builds world's strongest handheld laser, melts titanium and fractures diamonds

If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program

How to motivate your team in times of uncertainty

Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch

5 unexpected benefits of procrastination

The Cyberpunk 2077 sequel finally makes it to preproduction

AI generators say there are no Black surfers. This group is out to change that

Mastering grant writing: Essential tips for securing funding

This Brooklyn apartment complex was built like a Lego set

Mysterious U.S. spaceplane returns to Earth, and Space Force snaps photos

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