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Computer Science > Cryptography and Security
Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) through the Spectrum Access Systems (SAS) elevates spectral efficiency, yet existing centralized models face allocation logic opaqueness and a lack of independent verifiability. While blockchain-based SAS architectures offer transparency and verifiability by default, they introduce critical privacy risks and prohibitive on-chain computational overhead.
Kansas City's new low-barrier homeless shelters won't solve anything
Homelessness is a deeply complex issue. Solving the problems that lead to individuals having no place to call home challenges communities all across America. What steps can we take to solve homelessness here in Kansas City? Over the past several years an idea called "Housing First" gained traction in the federal government. Those who had been given housing with no behavioral requirements wound up drinking and overdosing themselves to death. They were dying undercover instead of on the streets.
The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Management
The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Management 20:41 Effectively managing volunteers can be an undertaking, but it is also critical to your organization’s overall success. Thankfully, the volunteer management experts at VolunteerHub have prepared a comprehensive guide that will show you how to effectively manage volunteers at every step of the volunteer lifecycle, as well as share some volunteer management best practices we have learned over the years.
At Shelter KC, we're doing more for homeless Kansas Citians - and we see the success Original
Shelter KC is in the business of saving the lives of homeless individuals. Putting broken lives back together requires meticulous methods and specialized tools. We work hard every day to recognize the unique issues that have caused each person to lose their support system along with their jobs and their housing. Paying close attention to the problems that led each individual into homelessness has made us aware of trends in treating the homeless.
How AI Is Being Used to Influence and Disrupt the 2024 Election
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer With the rapid advancement of generative AI technology over the past few years, it’s no longer a question of whether artificial intelligence will have an impact on this fall’s rematch of Joe Biden and Donald Trump and other races — but how much. There’s now an ever-growing number of AI tools that political campaigns, operatives, pranksters, and bad actors can use to influence voters and possibly disrupt the election.
The FCC's Ban on AI in Robocalls Won't Be Enough Original
In the days before the U.S. Democratic Party’s New Hampshire primary election on 23 January, potential voters began receiving a call with AI-generated audio of a fake President Biden urging them not to vote until the general election in November. Voters in Slovakia audio posted to Facebook contained fake, AI-generated audio of a presidential candidate planning to steal the election—which may have tipped the election in another candidate’s favor.
5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Managing Volunteers
Many organizations are recruiting volunteers for various projects year-round. Food banks need people to pass out meals, schools need extra support in classrooms, and nursing homes need volunteers to assist the elderly. While having plenty of volunteers on hand can be great for accomplishing your organization’s goals, managing volunteers isn’t the same as managing paid staff.
Kansas City can't fix homelessness with just a free room. Here's a proactive solution
Shelter KC gives unhoused people counseling, assistance, education and spiritual guidance - not just a meal and a bed. Facebook/Shelter KC: A Kansas City Rescue Mission It isn't safe to live on the street. Not a matter of debate. It is clearly dangerous and often deadly. Missouri's new law against camping on public property is having an impact on homeless encampments.
4 Best Practices for Developing Engaging Volunteer Orientations
Your volunteer orientations are one of the first touches you have with supporters. Is your orientation process creating value and engagement? How does your nonprofit organization train volunteers to excel in their role? Are you using training as an opportunity to teach your mission and goals? Volunteer orientations present the opportunity to make a good first impression.
Building a Mission-Driven Board for Your Nonprofit
Your board is at the root of everything you do — they are true leaders and advisors of your organization, mission and values. How do they truly become your best advocates? Your nonprofit board members can help your organization drive its mission strategically — you want them to love what you’re doing, know how to push your nonprofit forward, and want to keep in touch to help support the cause.
4 Tips for Recruiting and Engaging Virtual Volunteers in 2021 and Beyond
Independent Sector reported that the value of a volunteer hour in 2021 is $28.54, and that figure continues to climb. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way organizations recruit, manage, and engage volunteers, and many nonprofits, just like yours, have transitioned to offering virtual volunteer opportunities for supporters. Offering virtual volunteer opportunities allows your organization to utilize the skill-set of volunteers while eliminating or limiting face-to-face contact.
Yes, Kansas City has a housing problem, but roofs over heads won’t fix homelessness
It’s not as simple as giving everyone who doesn’t have a home a safe place to sleep indoors. Jill Toyoshiba jtoyoshiba@kcstar.com A lot of people think homelessness can be solved by simply moving everyone who is homeless into safe housing. On the surface, the idea is an attractive one. It promises to end the need for police intervention and ambulances handling overdoses and mental health emergencies. It suggests it would increase public safety and provide a quick solution for a difficult problem.
3 Tips for Conducting a Community Needs Assessment Amid COVID-19
Chances are, demand for your organization’s support and services has increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even if resources have decreased. According to a recent study, demand for nonprofits has increased on average by 10.2% while funding dropped 29%. If your nonprofit is struggling to meet demand, it may be beneficial to look for new areas to provide low-resource assistance that can be quickly scaled.
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3 Benefits of Having a Volunteer Management Solution Amid COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the way organizations recruit, engage and manage volunteer constituents. Nonprofits all over the world are looking for new and creative ways to engage volunteers, provide them with a safe working environment and drive the most possible value from their programs. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing nonprofits to shift their volunteer program strategy and look for intuitive ways to provide much-needed support to the community.
We’ve avoided a COVID-10 catastrophe so far with KC’s homeless — but winter is coming
Kansas City was rightly concerned the coronavirus would devastate the homeless. Tammy Ljungblad Star file photo COVID-19 was supposed to hit the homeless particularly hard. Around the country, widespread predictions said that this vulnerable population would be the first victims of the pandemic. The Kansas City metropolitan area was no exception. Media suggested that the homeless population would suffer a disaster.
Holding by Eric Burger
It was hot. The boy removed leaves from the maple’s low branches, arranged them carefully in a grid on the lawn. His mother, who had esophageal cancer, watched from the quiet of the breakfast nook, behind a double-pane window, her feet icy cold in the rush of air from the vent. Her husband slept upstairs. The boy had been meticulously laying out arrays for weeks: maple leaves, pennies, sheets of bland printer paper, Hot Wheels, Pokémon cards, etc. She didn’t know if it was good for him.
4 tips for organizing volunteers amid COVID-19
There is a good chance your nonprofit is scrambling to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic within your community. There has never been a more important time for organizations to provide support and needed essentials. Whether your organization has already responded or is planning to respond, now is the time to make sure that your volunteer program can support your nonprofit’s COVID-19 response goals.
3 Tips for Volunteer Managers
Chances are, your nonprofit is ramping up efforts to assist and support clients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonprofit organizations, just like yours, are reviewing their volunteer program goals and making changes to respond to the crisis quickly and make the biggest impact possible within their communities. Regardless of the sector your organization serves, now is a time for all of us to come together and provide traction toward the greater good. How is your nonprofit responding to the pandemic?
Volunteer Management Tips for 2020
The beginning of a new year can be a stressful time for a nonprofit. Your organization is probably focused on reviewing last year’s program results, forecasting mission attainment, creating fundraising strategies and developing a plan for how to use resources. It is easy to overlook your organization’s volunteer program when planning and forecasting to reach new year goals.
How Your Phone Company Aims to Stop Robocalls
The STIR/SHAKEN protocol will stop robocallers from exploiting a caller ID loophole to spoof phone numbers Photo: Dan Saelinger Photo: Dan Saelinger Have you ever received a phone call from your own number? If so, you’ve experienced one of the favorite techniques of phone scammers. Scammers can “spoof” numbers, making it seem as though the phone call in question is coming from a local number—which can include your own—thereby obscuring the call’s true origin.
4 Tips for Promoting Your Next Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Event
Peer-to-peer fundraising has quickly become one of the most successful strategies for increasing donations and getting supporters involved. In fact, peer-to-peer fundraising is a strategy that has been positively accepted across age groups (receptive rates: 87% Millennials, 87% Gen X, 77% Baby Boomers, 63% Matures). If your nonprofit wants to increase financial donations and engage your organization’s supporters, hosting peer-to-peer events is a no-brainer.
Tips for Engaging Major Donors
Most nonprofits receive the majority of their funding from major donors. Engaging major donors is a must. These donors want to have a connection and make an impact with your organization. How your nonprofit creates engagement with major gift prospects and current donors can make a huge difference in your organization's ability to convert and retain your biggest stakeholders. In order to be successful with major donors, your nonprofit will want to engage them both offline and online.
The Benefits of Volunteer Tracking and Management
One challenge that many nonprofits face today is the ability to capture and truly understand the time supporters are providing their organization. According to an IRS study, 85 percent of U.S. charities have little to no internal staff. Most organizations were run by volunteers in 2018. Nonprofits that do not have a formal process for keeping track of volunteer hours, measuring the impact of volunteer time, and optimizing their program based on data are missing out on a substantial opportunity.
Exceeding Expectations During Volunteer Training
Benjamin Franklin once said, “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Developing a volunteer training program that exceeds the expectations of volunteers will impact retention, engagement and referral sources for your nonprofit. A study performed by Middlesex University for Work Based Learning found that 74 percent of people felt they weren’t achieving their full potential due to lack of development opportunities.
How to Use Community Engagement to Reach Qualified Volunteers
Chances are you want to make a positive impression on the community that your organization serves. Your mission may positively impact the community in a variety of ways but how are you using community engagement to reach, retain, and engage volunteers? In the last decade it has become harder to entice people to volunteer. According to a 2015 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 24.9 percent of adults volunteer, a percentage that has decreased since 2005 (28.8 percent).
Converting Volunteers to Donors: Missed Opportunity for Most Nonprofits
It is not uncommon for nonprofits to look at volunteers and monetary donors differently. Both provide tremendous value and allow an organization to reach goals and obtain its mission. Oftentimes nonprofits target these donor types differently and design different communication strategies/campaigns between the two groups. Diversifying targeting and campaigns may be beneficial for some organizations, but what happens when a supporter fits into both categories?
Bridge the Gap: The Thin Line Between Financial Donors and Volunteers
Did you know that 80 percent of volunteers donated to charitable organizations? This statistic is double the giving rate of non-volunteers. There is a good chance (probably 100 percent) that your nonprofit would not be able to reach its mission of achieving good without the support of donors. Some donors provide value by donating time (volunteers) and other donors provide financial support.
Volunteer Coordination: Overcoming the Time Trap
Volunteer coordination is a tough job that involves strategy, patience, interpersonal skills and the ability to work under pressure. Effective volunteer coordination helps an organization run and operate smoothly. Many first-time volunteer coordinators find their time stretched thin between developing policies and procedures, generating role descriptions, recruiting volunteer prospects, focusing on retention and other everyday tasks.
4 Ways to Create an Efficient Volunteer Program
Here are four strategic ways to create an efficient volunteer program that can save your staff time, retain resources and create higher levels of engagement with supporters. Creating a successful volunteer program should be at the top of your nonprofits priority list. Volunteerism had a value of over $184 billion dollars in 2017, and an individual volunteer is estimated to be worth $24.14, according to a study by Independent Sector.
3 Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Volunteer Program
Evaluating your nonprofit volunteer program starts by understanding your supporters, what empowers them to give and how your organization is enhancing their lives. Every nonprofit wants to have a successful volunteer program that drives in new prospects and retains existing supporters. Why wouldn’t they? The value of volunteers continues to rise year over year, and organizations today are relying on volunteerism more than ever to reach their mission and goals.
4 Volunteer Management Best Practices of 2018
Volunteer management best practices have changed as volunteer expectations and the reach of nonprofit organizations evolve. That said, the ultimate goal has always been, and will always be, to provide great experiences to volunteers and impact the community in an organized and efficient way.
Volunteer Retention: 3 Strategies for 2018
Volunteer retention is as important going into 2018 as it has ever been before. Volunteer behavior is changing and supporters want to be engaged in exchange for their time. What strategies is your nonprofit deploying to keep volunteers coming back? How is your organization measuring volunteer impact and communicating with your volunteer-base? Did you know that only 55 percent of nonprofit organizations measure the impact that their organizational volunteers are making towards the greater good?
Is Your Nonprofit Ready for #GivingTuesday?
#GivingTuesday is right around the corner and presents a unique opportunity for nonprofits nationwide to drive in new donors (both financial and time-based). If you are not familiar with #GivingTuesday, it is a national campaign that begins the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 28, 2017) and kicks off end-of-year giving for many people around the world. There are many ways that your nonprofit can leverage #GivingTuesday to increase financial commitments and fill volunteer opportunities.
Mission Creep: What is It? How to Prevent It
Mission creep can negatively affect a nonprofit in a variety of ways. Your nonprofits mission statement should serve as the foundation for your organization’s vision and goals. Your mission statement is the glue that holds your nonprofit together and creates a summary of your organization’s key purpose. Creating a clear and concise mission statement is important because it communicates your organizations desired outcome to all stakeholders and creates a clear focus for all decisions that are made.
Planning Ahead: Overcoming Volunteer Turnover
Turnover is costly, even in the nonprofit sector. Although most volunteers are not paid, extensive training may go into preparing the volunteer to perform their duties. Nonprofits also invest money in recruiting volunteers either by inbound or outbound marketing strategies. The cost of losing a volunteer does typically equate to a dollar amount. According to the Corporation for Community Service, the value of volunteerism over the last year is worth in the neighborhood of $193 million.
10 Awesome Marketing Ideas for Nonprofits
Finding new ways to reach volunteer and donor prospects can be challenging in the nonprofit marketplace. There are many nonprofits competing to catch the attention of your organization's prospects. In the U.S. alone, there are over 1.5 million nonprofits trying to gain exposure and live out their mission. How your organization plans and executes your marketing and exposure strategies could be the difference between creating sustainability for your nonprofit or not.
How to Improve Volunteer Experience
It’s no secret that volunteers are one of the most important components to the success of your nonprofit and its ability to achieve goals. If volunteers engage in a positive experience with your nonprofit organization, they can fill multiple opportunities of need and take part in your fundraising campaigns. The truth of the matter is that providing an outstanding experience for your volunteers starts from the first communication you have with them.
How to Increase the Success Rate of Fundraising Campaigns
Most nonprofits rely on donors to fund campaigns that allow their organization to pursue its mission and achieve goals. Convincing prospects to become donors can be challenging if a nonprofit is not taking a strategic approach to identify the most convertible prospects. Increasing the success rate of an organization’s fundraising campaigns can take some time and testing on the part of the nonprofit.
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