panel with Steve Longenecker, Nuradeen Aboki, and Carolyn Woodard
Wednesday, November 18th, 2026, from 3-4pm Eastern, Noon Pacific
Does using AI at work feel like a values question for you, not just a technology question?
Are you excited about what AI could do for your nonprofit, already using it, or still making up your mind?
Are you wondering whether your AI use is secure, or what AI will mean for your job?
Webinar: Should Your Nonprofit Use AI?
Join three Community IT staff for an honest conversation about the questions nonprofit staff and leaders ask us most often about AI. Should your nonprofit use AI at all? Is it ethical? Are you falling behind if you don’t use it? What does it mean for your job? And if you do use it, how do you use it securely and responsibly?
This isn’t a webinar that will tell you to adopt AI. Nonprofits are making real choices about AI right now, and “not yet” or “not for us” is a valid answer. Our panelists bring different experiences to these questions and don’t always agree. You’ll hear how a Director of IT Consulting, a Senior Consultant who conducts AI assessments for nonprofits, and the host of our Nonprofit AI podcast think through the same concerns. Then you can weigh them for your own organization and your own role.
In this webinar session, Steve, Nura, and Carolyn will take on common questions about AI at nonprofits, including ethics and values, workforce impact, data security, who gets to decide how AI is used, and questions fro registration. You’ll receive a takeaway summary of these common issues and positions you can share with your staff, IT team, and decision makers.
The session will include time for your questions. You are invited to submit your specific questions about AI at your organization when you register.
As with all our webinars, this presentation is appropriate for an audience of varied IT experience. Community IT is proudly vendor-agnostic, and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Webinars are never a sales pitch, always a way to share our knowledge with our community.
Presenters:
As Director of IT Consulting, Steve Longenecker divides his time at Community IT primarily between managing the company’s Projects Team and consulting with clients on IT planning. Steve brings a deep background in IT support and strategic IT management experience to his work with clients. His thoughtful and empathetic demeanor helps non-technical nonprofit leaders manage their IT projects and understand the Community IT partnership approach.
Steve also specializes in Information Architecture and migrations, implementations, file-sharing platforms, collaboration tools, and Google Workspace support. His knowledge of nonprofit budgeting and management styles make him an invaluable partner in technology projects.
Steve is MCSE certified. He has a B.A. in Biology from Earlham College in Richmond, IN and a Masters in the Art of Teaching from Tufts University in Massachusetts. He is happy to share his expertise and perspectives on using AI at nonprofits.
Nuradeen Aboki is a Senior Consultant at Community IT. In that role, he proactively oversees technology infrastructure for select clients, providing strategic IT advice, recommending IT solutions and solution design to meet business objectives, and then overseeing solution implementations. Nura provides leadership and guidance for strategic planning and solutions architecting with clients who have sophisticated technical and business requirements. He gathers core business, technical and IT service management requirements through a variety of activities including key stakeholder interviews, document review and technical assessments.
Nura started his career at Community IT as a Network Administrator. In 2012, he was promoted to Network Engineer and assumed a supervisory role in IT service operations, then became an IT Business Manager, where he has guided some of our largest clients through complex implementation of effective technology investments and utilizing efficient IT services in direct support of their missions. As Senior Consultant he has a lot of experience in helping nonprofits do assessments on AI readiness and IT planning, and is our resident expert on the value of governance and IT policies, and how to craft them.
Prior to joining Community IT Innovators, Nura served as a member of the technical support team at George Washington University and held a Network Specialist role at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament in Abuja, Nigeria. Nura holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, both from George Washington University.
Carolyn Woodard is currently head of Marketing and Outreach at Community IT Innovators. She has served many roles at Community IT, from client to project manager to marketing. With over twenty five years of experience in the nonprofit world, including as a nonprofit technology project manager and Director of IT at both large and small organizations, Carolyn knows the frustrations and delights of working with technology professionals, accidental techies, executives, and staff to deliver your organization’s mission and keep your IT infrastructure operating. She has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Johns Hopkins University and received her undergraduate degree in English Literature from Williams College.
She loved talking with Steve and Nura about should your nonprofit use AI.
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