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Microsoft’s Lessons for Nonprofits with Erin McHugh Saif

In this episode of The Responsive Lab, your Virtuous co-hosts, Carly Berna and Stephen Boudreau, are joined by Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer and Tech for Social Impact Leadership Team member, Erin McHugh Saif.

Erin begins by sharing her background, which includes experience working for big tech companies such as Blackbaud, Salesforce, and TIBCO. 

Next, Erin explains the nonprofit side of Microsoft and how philanthropy has helped to shape Microsoft over the years when it comes to connecting with its users, as well as the community at large.

Also Along the Way, Erin Shares: 

  • How AI and technology have helped shape the nonprofit world, and what they have the power to achieve moving forward
  • The distinction between how nonprofits and for-profits use Microsoft as a service
  • For-profit trends that can be applied to nonprofits 
  • Microsoft services that are currently being delivered to for-profits that present the biggest opportunities for nonprofits

Discover more opportunities at Microsoft.com such as discounted offers for nonprofits, Microsoft Philanthropies, the AI governance tool kit, as well as Free AI skilling resources.

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Season One of The Responsive Lab is brought to you by Virtuous.

Virtuous is a software company committed to helping nonprofits grow generosity. Virtuous believes that generosity has the power to create profound change in the world and in the heart of the giver. With that in mind, it’s their mission to move the needle on global generosity by helping nonprofits better connect with and inspire their givers. Learn more about Virtuous and download your free Nonprofit CRM Checklist at virtuous.org/crmchecklist. 

Special thanks to editor and sound engineer Barry R. Hill and producer Abigail Morse.

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