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How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…

AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon
At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

«The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.»
It's nice to see places where community can help course correct!
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal is named CEO of the Polygon Foundation after the departure of Mihailo Bjelic, and unveils changes to streamline the nonprofit (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/35…

A look at The Examination, a nonprofit investigative news outlet with ~20 staffers launched in 2023 that focuses on Big Food, tobacco, pollution, and drugs (Sophie Endrud/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/t…

Meet The Examination, a nonprofit watchdog for global health - Poynter
Ben Hallman and his team of almost 20 are taking on four of the biggest global industries, one health investigation at a time

'Earmarks of a Shakedown': Congressional Black Caucus Threatens To Boycott Target After Retail Giant Stops Funding Its Nonprofit Arm (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/earmarks-of-a-shakedown-congressional-black-caucus-threatens-to-boycott-target-after-retail-giant-stops-funding-its-nonprofit-arm/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p75#a250702p75

Swiss nonprofit health organization breached by Sarcoma ransomware group https://therecord.media/sarcoma-ransomware-breach-swiss-healthcare-nonprofit-radix

When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…

"Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades"
#Argentina #Otters #Animals

Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades
A family of giant river otters was released into the Iberá National Park in northeast Argentina on July 1. The endangered species, with no known breeding populations in Argentina over the past 40 years, was considered probably extinct in the country. The release, led by conservation nonprofit Rewilding Argentina, included a breeding pair named Coco […]

Q&A with Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, a book on PE firms' impact on media and other industries, on unionization efforts, nonprofit outlets, and more (Camille Bromley/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/megan-gr

Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more, and starts Elevate Academy, an AI training program for adults (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/business/microsoft-ai-educati…

Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education
Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges and nonprofit groups.

“On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the proposed purchase of all of the assets of 23andMe by TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”) … TTAM is a nonprofit medical research organization founded by Anne Wojcicki (Co-Founder and former CEO of 23andMe).”
– 23andMe bankruptcy notice
Well this all sounds above board…
#DNA

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

I think I did only two things that really mattered to that org in the long term:
1. Stopped them from buying a really dubious CMS / web app engine that would have cost the org (a nonprofit) millions it didn’t have to be vendor-locked into a dead-end platform that would have set their site back years.
2. Selected a new developer hire who was far more dependable and mature than I was, and became their lynchpin. She wrote tons of software that did actually matter, and stayed with them for years.
Whatever dev skills I had turned out to be good for (1) saying “stop, don’t” and (2) recognizing an excellent person in a job interview. Note that neither involved the code I wrote.
2/2

US based nonprofit
Many families in Uganda stuck with unhealthy dirt floors are finding an affordable alternative | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/many-families-in-uganda-stuck-with-unhealthy-dirt-floors-are-finding-an-affordable-alternative/

The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife. The foundation is the subject of an investigation. The Orlando Sentinel received the letter on Friday from the Department of Children and Families. The letter claims the newspaper’s Tallahassee reporter intimidated foster families who had received money from the Hope Florida Foundation w…

The chief executive of the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray,
full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days after a federal judge ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was illegal.
And this week, Mu…

DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches | TechCrunch
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.

"Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt its Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves ‘Naive’ Idea Plausible"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt Ice Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves 'Naive' Idea Plausible
The craziness of the whole endeavor is only matched by the urgency with which they believe something must be done to address sea ice loss.

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I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
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Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

A look at the Salt Lake Tribune under CEO and top editor Lauren Gustus, who is spearheading a campaign to raise $1M in 2025 to end its paywall (Rick Edmonds/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/salt-lake-tribune-paywal…

At the nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune, a turnaround and now a big gamble - Poynter
The Tribune’s success has made it a poster child for going nonprofit. Will its attempts to shake off its paywall find similar success?

AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu

EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text | TechCrunch
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

Hello, fediverse!
I'm Ena, the new PR coordinator hired by the Mastodon nonprofit (@…). I've been recruited to help bring the fediverse to a younger, sexier, more diverse, more cutting-edge audience. According to our polls, using the original creator almost like a mascot is essential to keeping things simple and familiar for how the younger crowd …

Capital & Main
is an award-winning nonprofit publication that reports from California
on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time
https://capitalandmain.com/about-capital-and-main

About Capital & Main
Investigating Money, Power and Society.

Nonprofit led by 23andMe’s former CEO wins bid to acquire the company https://therecord.media/23andme-sale-to-nonprofit-ttam-wojcicki

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Blue Shield of California accrued a surplus of more than $4 billion over the decades as it benefited from its former tax-exempt status, according to a regulatory filing.
Last year, regulators approved a request by 💥Blue Shield of California,
the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.
The Oakland-based nonprofit go…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Whistleblower demands California regulators rescind restructuring of Blue Shield of California, which established a new corporate parent in Delaware. He...

https://kolektiva.social/@susurros/114701605671238735
""A couple of unmarked vehicles were here trying to take day laborers," described Teodoro, adding that some day laborers, who are U.S. citizens, distracted the ICE agents, giving undocumented fri…

Scott Campbell (@susurros@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image Well done, Inland Empire! "A group of immigrant [sic] agents Monday tried to detain undocumented day laborers at a Home Depot store parking lot in the Inland Empire until community members intervened, according to witnesses and a nonprofit." https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/ice-agents-fail-to-detain-day-laborers-at-upland-home-depot-after-bystanders-intervene/ #California #Upland #InlandEmpire #immigration #ICE

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-cuts-funding-for-internet-archive

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised $30M in donations, including from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2b3ce320-2451-45c4-a15c-757461624585

‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users
Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI

How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…

Survey: local news outlets make up 51% of INN's 500 members, digital-first outlets employ ~3,200 journalists, foundation funding is 49% of revenue, and more (INN News)
https://news.inn.org/highlights-2025-inn-index/

Increase in local members and topical news coverage: Highlights from the 2025 INN Index survey - INN News
For the first time, local news outlets make up the largest segment of the Institute for Nonprofit News’ member network, according to the latest Index survey.

Unique support from identity-based groups: Professional networks of women and LGBTQ physicists analyzed and compared by career sector
Chase Hatcher, Adrienne Traxler, Lily Donis, Madison Swirtz, Camila Manni, Justin Gutzwa, Charles Henderson, Ram\'on Barthelemy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14752…

Unique support from identity-based groups: Professional networks of women and LGBTQ+ physicists analyzed and compared by career sector
This paper presents a social network analysis of the professional support networks of 100 LGBTQ+ and/or women PhD physicists, comparing the networks based on the career sectors of academia, industry, and government/nonprofit. The methods for constructing and analyzing the ego networks, which are novel in many ways, are explained in greater detail in an earlier publication (Hatcher et. al., 2025). We use statistical tests of independence to explore differences between sectors in terms of whole n…

If a sitting president can direct the IRS to investigate political enemies, revoke nonprofit status from dissenting institutions, or selectively enforce tax law to reward loyalty,
the agency no longer serves the public.
It serves power.
The slow hollowing of the IRS through funding cuts, staff attrition, and the erosion of norms yields the same result:
a weakened institution unable to enforce the law, uphold equity, or hold the powerful to account.
And when th…

The Fiscal State Under Siege: Why People Hate the IRS, and Why You Should Care
How Trump, DOGE, and Project 2025 Are Turning the IRS Into a Tool of Authoritarian Rule Editor’s Introduction: Hello readers, it's Nathan Tankus and I am very happy to bring to you the first in a long multi-part series on the IRS spearheaded by Anisha Steephen. Anisha worked for

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/2…

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE

How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…

Google, the Earth Fire Alliance, and Muon Space's Fire Sat aims to launch 52 satellites by 2029 to detect wildfires globally and will make the data accessible (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-earth-fire-alliance-sp…

Google Wants to Get Better at Spotting Wildfires From Space
A partnership with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and satellite manufacturer Muon Space is giving Google a better shot at tracking wildfires—and using AI to process all the data being collected.

The US government is blatantly misrepresenting events captured on video
in an effort to intimidate powerful officials and ordinary citizens who seek to challenge the White House’s policies.
Alec Karakatsanis, the founder of Civil Rights Corps, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, argued:
👉 “By relentlessly telling the population that ‘two plus two equals five’, it helps determine who is willing to go along with ‘two plus two equals five’ and deny basic truths.
“It’s also…

Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417087/ai-safety-yoshua-bengio-lawze…

He’s the godfather of AI. Now, he has a bold new plan to keep us safe from it.
Humans — not AI systems — should be the ones with agency, says the godfather of AI.

America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

"‘I’ll drive what she’s driving’: This campaign wants more women to try EVs"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars #Vehicles

‘I’ll drive what she’s driving’: This campaign wants more women to try EVs
Women make up less than 30% of EV owners. A Virginia-based nonprofit aims to boost that number.

Sources: Anne Wojcicki is poised to regain control of 23andMe, after her nonprofit TTAM offered $305M to top Regeneron's bid for the DNA-testing company (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/anne-wojcicki-wins-bidding-for-23and…