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Stability AI, Hugging Face and Canva back new AI research nonprofit
Developing cutting-edge AI systems like ChatGPT requires massive technical resources, in part because they’re costly to develop and run. While several open source efforts have attempted to rever
Another All Raise CEO steps down
Less than a year after assuming the role, All Raise CEO Mandela SH Dixon has stepped down from her position at the nonprofit. The entrepreneur, who previously ran Founder Gym, an online training cente
Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant has been fired by her board
Kimberly Bryant is officially out from Black Girls Code, eight months after being indefinitely suspended from the organization that she founded. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, a Black Girls Co
Online donation platform Change helps charities fundraise in crypto
Crypto owners tend to be more generous than other investors when donating to charity, research shows. Whether that’s because of their strong sense of community or because of the lucrative tax be
AI startup Cohere launches a nonprofit research lab
Cohere, a startup creating large language models to rival those from OpenAI, today announced the launch of a nonprofit research lab: Cohere For AI. Headed by Google alum Sara Hooker, Cohere says that
A downturn is nothing new for diverse founders
Some investors say that the crackdown on tech companies isn’t impacting diverse founders as harshly as their overly funded, homogeneous counterparts because of pre-existing biases.
Fundid injects first funding into providing capital, credit for small businesses
Fundid has a three-pronged approach to simplifying access to capital for small businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
Why web3’s wealthy are donating crypto instead of cash
As the Russia-Ukraine war rages on, crypto has become an integral tool for donors abroad to support Ukraine. The success of crypto-native fundraising campaigns in this context is reflective of a broad
Daily Crunch: The startups we lost in 2019
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Salesforce ‘acquires’ Salesforce.org for $300M in a wider refocus on the nonprofit sector
Salesforce yesterday announced a move to reposition how it provides software to and works with nonprofits like educational institutions and charities: the company announced that it would integrate Sal
Apple partners with Oakland nonprofit Dream Corps on Swift coding initiative
Apple this morning announced a new partnership designed to train more people to code using its own programming language, Swift. The company says it’s now working with the Oakland-based nonprofi
Signal expands into the Signal Foundation with $50M from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton
Perhaps the most surprising thing I learned about Signal when I spoke with Moxie Marlinspike, the app's creator, last year at Disrupt, was that it was essentially running on a shoestring budget. A too
Full Fact aims to end fake news with automated fact checking tools
After they failed to stop the spread of “fake news” around the U.S. election, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Google are facing heightened public scrutiny. Fake news is a threat to democracy, the
Malala Fund co-founder Shiza Shahid, AngelList partner to back “mission-driven” startups
During the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2016) at Stanford University today, AngelList, the equity fundraising platform, and activist Shiza Shahid announced a partnership to form a fund called N
Medic Mobile locks $1 million grant to help community health workers in the developing world
Tech nonprofit Medic Mobile has attained $1 million in unrestricted grant funding from the Peery Foundation for apps that help health workers deliver care to people who lack reasonable access to docto
Causora Promotes Philanthropy By Matching Donations With Spa Gift Cards
What if you could donate to charity, and get your money back in full? It seems like there would be a catch, but that's exactly what <a target="_blank" href="http://www.causora.com">Causora</a> is doin
Google’s One Today App Aims To Make Charitable Donations A More Social, And Frequent, Experience
Today, Google quietly ushered in a new application built on top of its nonprofit arm, Google.org. The app is called One Today, and it’s currently invite only for Android users at this time. The
Google’s Global Impact Challenge Will Award $3M To 4 UK Social Entrepreneurs, With Tim Berners-Lee And Richard Branson Among The Judges
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>, the world's largest search engine and one of the most powerful tech companies around, is now using its muscle to search for something new: s
The Weekly Good: This Analytics Company Wants To Help Put An End To Human Trafficking
Editor’s Note: This is a weekly series. If your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out. Random acts of kindness and