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3 weeks ago | 
blog.google | Maggie Johnson |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
Nonprofits are at the forefront of finding solutions to challenges in their communities. But to do this at scale, they need access to the latest technology, like AI. A 2024 Google.org report revealed a significant gap: Many nonprofits lack the AI training needed to effectively use this promising technology. While a majority believe generative AI could benefit their communities, adoption is still in its early stages.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
blog.google | Maggie Johnson |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
Generative AI has real potential to make progress on many of humanity's most pressing challenges. Recent Google research shows that AI is driving progress towards all 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But barriers to tapping into this technology remain. A 2024 Google for Nonprofits survey found that while four in five nonprofits feel that generative AI is applicable to their work, nearly half are not using the technology due to a lack of awareness, training, tools and funding.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
blog.google | James Manyika |Maggie Johnson |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat
AI is revolutionizing the landscape of scientific research, enabling advancements at a pace that was once unimaginable — from accelerating drug discovery to designing new materials for clean energy technologies.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
blog.google | Maggie Johnson |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
The recent award to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of the Nobel Prize (® the Nobel Foundation) in Chemistry, for AlphaFold’s contributions to protein structure prediction, is proof that AI can deliver incredible breakthroughs for scientists. Already, more than 2 million researchers across 190 countries have used AlphaFold to help accelerate the fight against malaria, combat a widespread and deadly parasitic disease and pave the way for new Parkinson’s treatments.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Maggie Johnson
17 hours agoThe Australian one looks EXACTLY like a mashup of Chris and Liam Hemsworth. Disclaimer: The following images were created using generative AI image models for the sake of entertainment and curiosity. The images also reveal the biases and stereotypes that currently exist within AI models and are not …
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
blog.google | Maggie Johnson |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
New advancements in artificial intelligence present exciting possibilities for learning and development in the classroom. Matthew Jones, a special education teacher who has been participating in AI training with the International Society for Technology in Education, is seeing this firsthand. He teaches four subjects across three different grade levels, and while finding appropriate resources for his students was once a challenge, AI is helping him to complete that task in a fraction of the time.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
blog.google | Maggie Johnson |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
Since its creation two decades ago, Google.org has given $18 billion in product donations to nonprofits around the world as part of its mission to apply Google’s innovation, research and resources to promote progress and expand opportunity for everyone. In the last 10 years alone, Google.org and Googlers have provided nearly $6 billion in cash funding. Today, AI presents a profound opportunity to transform how nonprofits get their work done more effectively and efficiently.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
blog.google | Maggie Johnson |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
Google’s founders for Google.org to “ambitiously apply innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world’s problems." Since that time, Google.org has provided more than $18 billion in donated products; deep research support; and cutting-edge educational programs to thousands of nonprofits, universities and educators around the world. In the last 10 years alone, Google.org and Googlers have provided nearly $6 billion in cash funding.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Maggie Johnson
PEN America 1 hour ago Little Free Library Partners with ALA, PEN America on Banned Books Map publishersweekly.com - By Claire Kirch • 1h Little Free Library, the St. Paul, Minn.–based nonprofit organization, has partnered with the American Library Association and PEN America to produce … Natural Disasters 2 hours ago How Clorox is Providing (a Convoy of) Hope Through Product Donations 3blmedia.com - The Clorox Company • 2h Through a partnership with Convoy of Hope, we’ve been able to support...
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
theinformer.co.nz | Maggie Johnson
Apr 30, 2024 | Maggie Johnson | Letters to the EditorI welcome your recent ‘Speaking Up on the LTP’ content, though not always the bias existing among many contributors. In his plea for fair play from TCDC (Inf. 9/4) Murray Ward made some salient points re the spending of our rates dollars in the current LTP, where projects will soon be ’fixed’ (pun intended!) for another 10 years.
