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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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It’s the style of the CEO and executive team that drives the governance and the culture. You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.” The Myers-Briggs Foundation offers this perspective on the process. “The digital age is all about leadership. We all tend to label.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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Deliberately identifying new or additional customer services is one path that associations and other nonprofits can take toward growth. But the typical association model challenges agility. I’ve often thought that the model could work effectively in an association environment.” We changed our entire model.

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Classy Welcomes Ford Foundation COO Depelsha McGruder to Its Board of Directors

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McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. That’s why she was immediately drawn to Classy’s mission of mobilizing and empowering the world for good and helping nonprofits raise more money online. .

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A People First Approach To Nonprofit AI Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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If Racial Equity is Our North Star, How Can We Navigate Racial Bias in AI/LLMs?

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For nonprofits and grantmaking organizations committed to racial equity, using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) raises important concerns. An overreliance on majority culture data means other voices get diminished. These powerful technologies have inherent racial biases baked into them.

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Be the Voice of Relevance—Make Mission, Vision, and Values Fit the Moment

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Groups spend hours crafting these statements; so, we think of them as foundational. One goal was to identify how the pandemic impacted their business models. The March of Dimes is an example of a nonprofit whose original mission of serving polio victims was made obsolete by a vaccine. The response surprised me.

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3 Ways to Activate DEI in Your Nonprofit Organization

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or, “What are the actual actions we can take to realize our vision of a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion?” The foundation of this skill set is the ability to give and receive feedback. About Alford Group Alford Group is a national, full-service consultancy for nonprofits offering services in 6 focus areas.