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Community IT offers free webinars monthly to promote learning within our nonprofit technology community. Our podcast is appropriate for a varied level of technology expertise. Community IT is vendor-agnostic and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Something on your mind you don’t see covered here? Contact us to suggest a topic! http://www.communityit.com
Episodes
332 episodes
Doing IT Assessments at Nonprofits Pt 2
In part 2 of this two-part episode, Carolyn continues her conversation with CEO Johan Hammerstrom and Senior IT Consultant Nuradeen Aboki: what you actually get at the end of an IT assessment, and what to do with it.This episode covers:<...
Nonprofit AI: LLM 101 and Best Practices Roundup
Carolyn Woodard covers two things this week: a quick and basic explainer of how large language models actually work under the hood, and a roundup of the best practices for using AI at nonprofits that Community IT has built up over nine months o...
Doing an IT Assessment at Nonprofits Pt 1
Is it time for an IT assessment at your nonprofit? Maybe you need an assessment for a grant requirement, a change in leadership, or a switch to a new IT provider. In part 1 of this two-part episode, Carolyn talks with CEO Johan Hamm...
Nonprofit AI: Funding Questions and Back to School
Carolyn Woodard covers three threads in nonprofit AI news this week: new funding questions, a look at how AI is showing up for kids heading back to school, and a new advocacy group taking on AI regulation.Coefficient Giving, former...
AI in Practice for Nonprofits with Carolyn Woodard and Erik Solce pt 2
In Part 2 of the AI in Practice for Nonprofits webinar, Carolyn Woodard and Erik Solce, IT Business Manager at Community IT, dig into the part of the project that matters most once an AI workflow is up and running: how do you know it is actuall...
Nonprofit AI: Impala MCP and Bridgespan NTEN Report
Carolyn Woodard covers two pieces of nonprofit AI news worth your time this week: a new AI connector from Impala, and a report from Bridgespan and NTEN that gives nonprofits a practical way to decide where AI actually fits their work.Imp...
AI in Practice for Nonprofits with Carolyn Woodard and Erik Solce pt 1
Carolyn Woodard explores how a nonprofit marketer with no IT background can run a real AI project with Erik Solce, IT Business Manager at Community IT. For years Carolyn had marketing data scattered across nine separate channel dash...
Nonprofit AI: Where do you get your information about AI?
Carolyn Woodard covers a question worth asking before your nonprofit makes any decision about AI: where is your information about AI coming from, and what does that source need from you? As a consumer you have had roughly a billion dollars of a...
Nonprofit IT Migration from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 with Steve Longenecker
Carolyn Woodard talks with Steve Longenecker, Director of IT Consulting at Community IT, about a client's decision to migrate from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, and what a real nonprofit migration project looks like once years of technical...
Nonprofit AI: Jet Fuel Trade-offs, Agentic AI, Work and Learning Styles
Carolyn Woodard covers four AI stories with real implications for nonprofits this week, starting with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's sprawling new manifesto on open source AI and the release of Muse Glimmer, a lightweight model anyone can run local...
AI Bias and Data Equity with Heather Krause
Carolyn Woodard explores why statistical analysis and evaluations are never neutral with Heather Krause, mathematical statistician and founder of We All Count.Heather built her career doing statistical consulting, evaluation, and causal ...
Nonprofit AI: Caution is Prescient
Carolyn Woodard covers why deliberate, thoughtful implementation is actually your nonprofit's competitive advantage, not a liability.The commercial AI sector is in a "move fast and break things" sprint. Tech companies are pouring billion...
Nonprofit AI Case Study in Food Rescue with Joe Robbins
Carolyn Woodard talks with Joe Robbins, Chief Product Officer at Food Rescue US, about a real-world AI project built from the ground up: a predictive model that flags volunteer pickups at high risk of a last-minute cancellation.Food Resc...
Nonprofit AI: Resources Hub for Courses and Certifications
This week Carolyn Woodard covers how to get AI literate, moving from the big-picture policy questions she's been focused on lately back to a practical roundup: how do you and your staff build AI literacy, and do you need a certificate to prove ...
AI Maturity Model for Nonprofits pt 2
In Part 2 of the AI Maturity Model for Nonprofits webinar, Carolyn Woodard and Mimi Yeh, Engagement Director at PTKO, and George Danilovics, VP of Technology at AHIP, pick up where Part 1 left off, moving from the framework itself to the harder...
Nonprofit AI: Mozilla Report on AI as a Public Resource
Carolyn Woodard covers a growing counter-movement to concentrated AI power and what it means for nonprofits thinking about data sovereignty, open-source models, and their own agency in a moment that can feel overwhelming.Mozilla's ...
AI Maturity Model for Nonprofits pt 1
In the first part of this two-part conversation, Carolyn Woodard and Mimi Yeh, Engagement Director at PTKO, and George Danilovics, Vice President of Information Technology at AHIP, walk through an AI maturity model designed to help nonprofits m...
Nonprofit AI: Luddites, Environmental Impact Framework
Carolyn Woodard covers a cultural moment that's been building quietly, resistance to AI among workers, young people, and nonprofits, and connects it to a research framework for thinking honestly about AI's real environmental costs and benefits....
Nonprofit AI Voice Intake Technology with Chip Kennedy
Carolyn Woodard explores voice AI in the social services sector with Chip Kennedy, founder and CEO of CivicReach, a technology company building AI-powered communication tools for nonprofits and government agencies delivering human services. Chi...
Nonprofit AI: UN AI Report, Data Sovereignty, UBI and UBC
Carolyn Woodard covers the UN's first-ever independent scientific assessment of AI — and what its findings mean for nonprofits navigating questions of data rights, economic disruption, and who actually benefits from AI's rapid rise. This episod...
Nonprofit Better Deal for Data Pledge with Jim Fruchterman
Carolyn Woodard explores responsible data governance and AI realism with Jim Fruchterman, MacArthur Fellow and founder of Tech Matters, a tech-for-good nonprofit building open source software for the social sector. Jim's work sits at the inters...
Nonprofit AI: RAISE US, Citizen Advocacy Tools You Can Use
If last week's episode left you wondering what you can actually do about data center development in your community, this week's episode is the flip side. Carolyn Woodard shares a new national workforce initiative just launched last wee...
Securing Google Workspace for Nonprofits with Steve Longenecker pt 2
In Part 2 of the Securing Google Workspace for Nonprofits webinar podcast, Carolyn Woodard and Steve Longenecker, Director of IT Consulting at Community IT, move from foundational configurations into the question every nonprofit eventually asks...
Nonprofit AI: Public AI Fund Idea, Data Center Nonprofit Bribes
Carolyn Woodard covers two developing stories this week that together raise a bigger question for nonprofits: as AI infrastructure money floods into communities and philanthropic channels, is your organization ready to navigate it?First,...
Securing Google Workspace for Nonprofits with Steve Longenecker pt 1
In the first part of this two-part conversation taken from a webinar, Carolyn Woodard and Steve Longenecker, Director of IT Consulting at Community IT Innovators, walk through the security settings, risks, and first steps nonprofits need to kno...
