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Too burned out to implement best practices? There is a better way. You can become the strategic leader you were meant to be. It's time to create the ethical systems and infrastructure that will advance your mission and inspire your employees.

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September

September 3, 2025

AI for Nonprofits: Promise, Limitations, and Ethical Boundaries

Time: 2:00–3:00 pm ET
Description: Discover how AI can support and challenge nonprofit work, with a focus on ethics, transparency, and real-world limits. This is more important as nonprofits face unprecedented budget cuts.

Financial Health Check: Budgeting, Development, & Financial Risk

September 12, 2025

Time: 11:30 am–1:00 pm ET
Description: Sponsored by NPOCC, ensure sustainability with robust budgeting, ethical fund development, strong control, reporting, and fundraising aligned to mission while proactively managing risk.

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Many important causes have prematurely ended because people find themselves in positions where no reasonable person can succeed. There is a better way to operationalize your values, and we can help.

Our goal is to empower you, transform your thinking about the challenges you face, and engage you in strategic problem solving. Our tools, training modules, and research, much of which has been pioneered here, are all aligned to help you manage your most pressing needs.

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Paulina Alvarado-Goldman

I am the Founder and CEO of Capacity Building and Policy Experts, LLC. I began this consulting firm after seeing the most talented people I’ve ever met in nonprofits struggle, fail, and navigate toxic environments that ultimately resulted in these individuals leaving the industry altogether. Thereby, leaving an incredible talent void in the field and important organizational missions unfulfilled. What was more frustrating than anything was the fact that many of the issues that they navigated were 100% preventable had there been adequate systems and structures to support the work they wanted to do.

As a result, I begun researching best practices, testing organizational systems, and developing supports for nonprofit professionals that would help them to operationalize their missions and get themselves back on track.

I also begun helping organizations navigate leadership transitions and crisis situations as an Interim Executive Director. This helped me see first hand how important it is to develop organizational systems and to implement leadership strategies that minimized conflict, provide mission clarity, help steer organizations towards improved services, and reduce the unnecessary drama that ultimate sabotages endless organizational missions.

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