Positive Equation

No keynote. No vendor hall. No lanyard.

Just a living room in Serenbe, Georgia and seven women who came and left with a plan they believe in and more confident in themselves to make it happen.

This is what The Monthly Giving Retreat looks like.

Not a conference. Not a workshop. A room where the real conversations happen, the ones you’d normally only have with your closest colleague over a glass of wine or poolside. 🍷 💦

We’re planning Spring 2027 and spots are intentionally limited.

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90% of nonprofits are already using AI. Only 6-7% are seeing real returns.

That gap has consequences. For the communities nonprofits serve. For the people already on the margins who stand to fall further behind if the organizations closest to them don’t engage now.

The most important thing Justin Spelhaug said wasn’t about tools. It was about posture.

Demand for mission is up. Funding is constrained. AI won’t solve every problem — but it may be part of how the nonprofit sector finds another way, if leaders choose to engage now.

My conversation with Justin Spelhaug, President of Microsoft Elevate, is the first in a series from the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit — where I sat down with nonprofit leaders to learn about the profound ways AI is already being used.

From accelerating ALS research to hyper-personalization for donor journeys.

I walked away in awe and so inspired about what’s possible.

“This AI revolution is about more inclusion. It is about human agency. It is about making us more human, not less human.” — Justin Spelhaug, President, Microsoft Elevate

Listen to Ep 237 of Missions to Movements.