What Ludia does for the community.
Three threads: Dynamics for Good engagements with nonprofits and social enterprises, mentorship and ecosystem work with organizations like BCPA, and direct support for community organizations in Portland and the broader region where the team lives.
Pro bono Dynamics work, ecosystem leadership, and local support.
We are a small firm. We do not run a foundation. What we do instead is treat the community work the same way we treat the commercial work — assign senior people, do the diligence, and stay on past go-live.
The shape of it is three threads. The first is Dynamics for Good — structured pro bono engagements where a nonprofit or social enterprise gets Microsoft Dynamics 365 capability they could not otherwise afford, delivered by the same senior consultants who deliver our commercial work. The second is ecosystem leadership — co-founding and sustaining organizations like the Black Channel Partner Alliance (BCPA) that build representation and opportunity inside the Microsoft partner ecosystem. The third is direct support — the time, money, and Microsoft tooling we put into the community organizations in Portland and the regions our team lives in.
The same delivery model, scoped for nonprofit reality.
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Honest intake.
Three questions, not a long form. We pick the engagements where Dynamics 365 actually moves the mission, not where it would look good on a press release.
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Senior staffing, scoped for the budget reality.
The same senior consultants. A scope sized for what the nonprofit can actually absorb — technically, operationally, financially after we leave.
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Microsoft tooling and the FastTrack relationship.
We bring our Microsoft Engineering and FastTrack relationships into the engagement. Many of these nonprofits qualify for Microsoft nonprofit pricing and grant programs we know how to navigate.
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A handoff the nonprofit can actually own.
We do not leave them with a system that requires us forever. The handoff includes documentation, training for the nonprofit's own admin, and a sustainability plan for the platform.
Building the partner ecosystem we want to compete inside.
Lucas co-founded the Black Channel Partner Alliance (BCPA), a nonprofit that supports Black and minority-owned businesses inside the Microsoft Partner ecosystem. The work is access, mentorship, deal flow, and a structured path for underrepresented firms to grow their Microsoft practice.
BCPA is not a side project. It is built into how we operate. Ludia takes time, calls, and engagements that move the mission, even when they do not move our commercial pipeline. The Microsoft ecosystem is more interesting and more sustainable when it is more representative, and the partner firms that build that case inside the ecosystem are doing strategic work for everyone in it.
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