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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For many years Nonprofit Tech for Good used a budget website hosting company for $12 a month, but by 2020 our website downtime became significant and our email opt-in forms overrun with spam bot subscribers. We had to move to a premium website hosting company and upgraded to a $96 a month plan.

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4 of the best robocall-blocking apps and tools for avoiding phone spam

Mashable Tech

SEE ALSO: Why am I getting so many spam calls? Spam & Scam Report , the robocall-blocking app Truecaller called out scammers' increased use of artificial intelligence to make robocalls and robotext scripts "sound more realistic and effective." 1 consumer protection priority. And how do I stop it? In its latest U.S.

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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you have a contact us form, add a Google reCAPTCHA to help stop spam emails. If the speed test fails, a good first step is to make sure your website’s images are optimized and host your videos on a third party website, such as YouTube, instead of directly on your website. 9) Add a reCAPTCHA to your “Contact us” form.

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50+ Year End Fundraiser Email Subject Lines

CauseVox

Alternatively, 69 percent of email recipients flag an email as spam based on the subject line. To make sure your email gets read rather than ignored, marked as spam, or tossed in the trash, compelling fundraiser email subject lines are an absolute must. Avoid Spam Words To improve deliverability, avoid using promotional words (i.e.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Beat AI Blandification

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Think of tools like spam filters, donor segmentation algorithms, or predictive analytics that forecast campaign performance systems that excel at recognizing patterns in existing data. This article focuses on the generative version. By contrast, generative AI creates new content based on what it has learned from massive datasets.

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Facebook sees rise in violent content and harassment after policy changes

Engadget

Spam removals also dropped precipitously from 730 million at the end of 2024 to just 366 million at the start of 2025. Meta's report shows a significant decrease in the amount of Facebook posts removed for hateful content, for example, with just 3.4 The number of fake accounts removed also declined notably on Facebook from 1.4

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Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris

Ars Technica

Google says the update aimed to address spam and AI-generated content in a meaningful way. Whether the update was good or bad depends on who you askand maybe who you are. It's common for websites to see traffic changes after a core update, but the impact of the March 2024 update marked a seismic shift.

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