Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Jennifer Wemhoff , Communications Manager at GolfStatus the leading event management platform for golf fundraisers. As golf grows in popularity, it has become a vital fundraising tool for nonprofits of all sizes. Technology is making planning and managing charity golf tournaments easier, more efficient, and more impactful than ever before. Here are seven tech trends nonprofit golf tournament planners should watch for their 2025 events. 1) Online Registration Will Be Standard Gone are the day

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2025

340B Health , an organization advocating for hospitals and health systems serving vulnerable communities, faced a rapidly changing regulatory environment. While financially stable, the association operated in a volatile policy landscape , where government regulations could shift every two to four years. This uncertainty made long-term strategic planning challenging.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Most nonprofits face significant challenges when it comes to launching effective campaigns. Limited resources, tight budgets, and the need for widespread support can make this task daunting. Our eBook, "How to Launch a Successful Campaign," is designed specifically for nonprofits. Inside, youll find step-by-step instructions, practical tips, and real-world examples to help you create campaigns that resonate and achieve your goals.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city. If you dont see anyone using a wheelchair, he says, its not because they dont existits because they have nowhere to go.

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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? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Ars Technica

MAY 13, 2025

SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company's next Starship rocket Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket program back on track. Starship ignited its Raptor engines Monday morning on a test stand near SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas. The engine ran for approximately 60 seconds, and SpaceX confirmed the test-firing in a post on X : "Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire a

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Futurism

MAY 13, 2025

Two years after partnering with OpenAI to automate marketing and customer service jobs, financial tech startup Klarna says it's longing for human connection again. Once gunning to be OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's " favorite guinea pig ," Klarna is now plotting a big recruitment drive after its AI customer service agents couldn't quite hack it. The buy-now-pay-later company had previously shredded its marketing contracts in 2023, followed by its customer service team in 2024, which it proudly began rep

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 7, 2025

It remains all too common for associations to ignore vital data points as they strategize for the future. The inertia of decades of existence often precludes a data-informed state, instead relying on anecdote, trusting in the gut feeling of longtime employees or volunteers, and the way things have always been done. This flies in the face of modern organizational thinking, and associations looking to be proactive – or facing the modern challenges of the industry – would be advised to

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States but there are vastly fewer AI tools developed with ASL data than data representing the countrys most common languages, English and Spanish. NVIDIA, the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday are helping close this gap with Signs, an interactive web platform built to support ASL learning and the development of accessible AI applications.

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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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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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The MatrixFiles

APRIL 22, 2025

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In honor of Earth Day, I want to share a story about our recent office closing at Matrix Group, and how we tried to do it in the most sustainable, community-minded way possible. Closing our Arlington, VA office was a bittersweet milestone. After years of working fully remotely and knowing that remote work was here to stay for us, it didnt make sense to renew our lease.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director at iMission a full-service digital-first marketing agency working exclusively with nonprofits and social sector organizations. Successful nonprofit fundraisers have always understood the power of personalization in effective communications. Tailoring messages to resonate with individual donor interests and giving levels fosters stronger connections and inspires greater generosity.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As technology continues to shape member expectations and operational efficiencies, associations that lag are at risk of becoming obsolete. Its no longer enough to simply keep up, associations must stay proactive in integrating digital tools and strategies. Our recent.orgSource Digital Trends Survey reveals several key gaps in how associations are currently using technology to meet member needs and adapt to industry shifts.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 17, 2025

With so many CRMs on the market, how do you choose which one best aligns with your mission, enhances donor engagement, eliminates duplicate data entry, and supports capacity building? Join our session to find out! With the right CRM your organization can leverage data for actionable insights, personalized donor communications, and increased fundraising success.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Who am I to tell them how to make decisions? This anxiety-induced thought played like a broken record in my head as my first leadership training event approached in my new role as a training director. Talking in front of 40 leaders, most of whom were older than my ripe old age of 30 at the time felt like the perfect opportunity for them to see right through my lack of expertise and expose me as the fraud I was.

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Ars Technica

MAY 14, 2025

A plaintiff's law firms were sanctioned and ordered to pay $31,100 after submitting fake AI citations that nearly ended up in a court ruling. Michael Wilner, a retired US magistrate judge serving as special master in US District Court for the Central District of California, admitted that he initially thought the citations were real and "almost" put them into an order.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

You don't see this every day. It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR 8799. These large, gaseous worlds are located 130 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy (a light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles).

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Futurism

MAY 13, 2025

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, thinks that The Atlantic and The BBC are credible, reputable sources for news and information. Which is funny, because Musk who's engaged in a years-long project to erode trust in legacy media organizations and even specific journalists doesn't. And now, he's furious at his own AI chatbot. The Musk-Grok tiff happened over the weekend, when a misinformation-spreading X-formerly-Twitter user @amuse posted an " article " about billionaire bogeymen (like George and Al

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MARCH 24, 2025

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Scientists everywhere can now access Evo 2, a powerful new foundation model that understands the genetic code for all domains of life. Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University.

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Wired

MAY 13, 2025

CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 22, 2025

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Over the last year, I noticed an alarming trend popping up in my interviews with CEOs on my podcast, Associations Thrive. CEOs in the healthcare space were worried about nurses and technicians leaving the industry. Michael DiFrisco, Executive Director of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry , surveyed members and found that 52% of accredited members were planning to retire in the next five years.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2025

By Shannon Whitehead , Content Strategist at Neon One a software that connects nonprofits with the technology and resources that empower them to build a community of generosity. A peer-to-peer campaign (or P2P) is a type of fundraising where individuals organize and host a campaign on behalf of a nonprofit organization and collect donations from their friends.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 28, 2025

Digital transformation is no longer a choice; its a necessity. In todays technology-driven world, associations that fail to modernize risk losing relevance, members, and revenue. Meeting evolving member expectations and staying competitive requires a commitment to embedding technology into every aspect of your organizations strategy. Despite the urgency, many associations are struggling to keep pace.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 2, 2025

Strengthen connections with your mission, staff, community, and self! On June 3rd and 4th, DonorPerfect is hosting free fundraising strategy sessions with nonprofit leaders, including Mallory Erickson and Floyd Jones. Join us virtually to lean into your passion, discover powerful tools to inspire lasting donor relationships, and leave feeling energized!

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 25, 2025

Independent bookstores have long been champions of community, curiosity, and cultureand on Saturday, April 26, they get their moment in the spotlight. Independent Bookstore Day , a nationwide celebration of indie bookstores, invites readers to shop locally and support the spaces that keep storytelling vibrant. But this year, the festivities come with a wrinkle: Amazon is holding a major book sale at the same time, and many booksellers and readers aren’t having it.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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