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Excited about the launch of our new Responsible AI Initiative. Advancing both Apache Open Source Projects and their communities that are critical to the greater AI sector, as well as the countless innovations and applications that rely on them. Thank you to Anthropic and Alpha-Omega for seeding our Initiative! #OpenSource #responsible #AI #Apache #Anthropic #AlphaOmega #Sponsorship

Have you taken our Live Demo of the HumaDash Portal for a spin? "Simple yes or no is all I need in the comments below." The global charity sector moves $320 Billion annually, yet it is plagued by opacity, delays, and administrative friction. As the CTO of HumaTek, I got tired of the excuses. So, we built the solution. We have officially launched the open-access demo of the HumaDash Portal. It is a frictionless environment for instant, highly visible donorship tracking—from the first dollar sent directly to the final completed milestone. No registration walls. No sign-ups. Just pure, undeniable transparency powered by the borderless liquidity of the HUMC token. Click here to go there and test the Glass Box Standard for yourself: https://lnkd.in/eZJTbjwp

Most platforms launch with manufactured activity to appear established. As SpiritDAO's founder, I made the opposite choice: honest about being a beginning. Our infrastructure is ready, Pod hierarchies, HAT-based roles via Hats Protocol, Governor contract governance, bounty escrow, transparent Safe treasuries. But the community will be authentic, not inherited. This approach is painful in startup life. Vanity metrics would be easier. But as a 501c3 nonprofit, I'm optimizing for impact: creating pathways toward agency where communities can self-govern and experiment with their own scripts. Real communities start from zero. They don't fake it till they make it. #community #governance #DAOs #nonprofit #authenticity

The scariest problems in production are the ones you can’t explain. In this blog, Charity Majors discusses how context makes data powerful and shares how Homeaglow used Honeycomb to cut through the noise, connect the dots, and get to real answers faster. Because observability isn’t just about seeing problems, it’s about understanding them. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/edPnUEkw

What happens when you give a room full of #GovTech practitioners AI-native tools, first-class training, and a real mission? They build and ship dozens of apps in 36 hours. Yes, even the "non-technical" people. At #ShipSummit, attendees partnered with the Utah Avalanche Center to vibe code real, working solutions that keep backcountry skiers safe. 3,000+ deploys to production and over 1 million tokens later, the Utah Avalanche Center walked away with ideas they can take forward—and a whole lot of people walked away knowing they can build with AI. We're grateful to everyone who showed up and shipped. And we're proud to donate $8,000 to the Utah Avalanche Center—a nonprofit that provides avalanche forecasting, education, and awareness throughout the state. They rely on donations to fund that work. If their mission resonates, consider supporting them: https://lnkd.in/eumGu_hc

Powering Potential is installing computer labs schools in Tanzania. Small donations make a huge impact for students in theses schools year after year. It's learning infrastucture. If you are interested in helping, you can do so here: https://lnkd.in/dM4-tmUx

When a nonprofit needs help implementing Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT that's where NPact can help! 💡🚀 Our customer story with Saint Mary's Hall is live 🎉 NPact supported a seamless system transformation to RE NXT with connected systems, clean data, and strong fundraising pipelines 💪✨ Big thank you to Jim Bob Womack, Kevin Wood and Andrew Gove, Ed.D. for your collaboration to make this project a success!👏 Read the full story here https://lnkd.in/erzziyXk 🚀 #NPact #Blackbaud #Omatic #CustomerStory #Partnership #EducationFundraising #RENXT

New Post: ## Hyper-Traceable Aid Allocation: Blockchain-Enabled Decentralized Resource Allocation with Dynamic Trust Scoring \(HTA-DT\) - **Abstract:** This research proposes Hyper-Traceable Aid Allocation \(HTA-DT\), a novel framework for decentralized resource allocation within blockchain-based charitable giving systems. HTA-DT leverages a multi-layered evaluation pipeline and a dynamically adjusted trust scoring system to enhance transparency and accountability while optimizing the efficiency of aid disbursement. By integrating semantic analysis of project proposals, automated impact forecasting, \[…\]

"We need to know where the bones are buried.” That was what one of my beta testers said when describing their nonprofit's grant tracking system (or lack thereof). When a development director or grant consultant leaves an organization, the "story" of the funding usually walks out the door with them. Suddenly, the remaining team is left playing Data Archaeologist—digging through old emails, fragmented shared drives, and outdated spreadsheets just to figure out when a report is due or how much was asked for last year. For the last six weeks, a cohort of nonprofit leaders has been beta-testing the Excelevate Strategic Funding Tracker. What we found is that when you stop searching for your data and start actually leveraging it, everything changes. This is organized, repeatable, data driven decision making for your fundraising. I just published a quick breakdown of the top 3 "Aha!" moments our testers experienced, including the program imbalance discovery and the shift from reactive to strategic fundraising. Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/gy9BUauC P.S. The Tracker officially launches in mid-April! If you want to stop playing data archaeologist, make sure you are on the waitlist for the Early Adopter bonus. Link in the comments! 👇🏾 #Nonprofit #Fundraising #Grant #DataForGood #Clarity #ProductLaunch

Nonprofits don’t talk about "systems." They talk about people. The family in crisis, the student falling behind, the staff member juggling five spreadsheets just to make one referral. The "system" is often just the invisible friction between them. We’re sharing 4 real-world stories of how we helped our customers move from fragmented tools to Agentic AI foundations. No fluff, just grounded use cases showing how connected data actually changes the game for nonprofit teams. Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/euy2BvX7 #AgenticAI #Nonprofits #AWS #AWSCommunity #APNProud #AWSPartners #Cloudelligent