Insights on Building Mission-Driven Organizations
Practical lessons from 15+ years of leadership across nonprofits, real estate, and healthtech. Topics include AI implementation, nonprofit operations, business systems, and what it takes to scale organizations without losing your mission.
From the Pharmacy to the Fundraiser: My Unexpected Journey to Stupid Cancer
At the age of 15, I worked as a Pharmacy Technician for the local mom and pop, Islip Pharmacy. A job at CVS followed, then our community hospital. I loved it, however, I knew I wasn’t going to be a Pharmacist when I got a 62 in high school chemistry. Even my failing grade had a bit of creative curving upward. It was obvious that my pharmacy career would have a ceiling and an eventual stopping point. Luckily, I was pretty good on the computer, and tech became my primary focus.
My Supercharged Email Management Strategy
Managing multiple email inboxes has become all too real in 2019. Personal email, school email, work email, your project, your other project. For years, the Gmail app was my go-to. Flipping between inboxes seemed like the best there ever could be. The thought of a native app with multiple logged-in email accounts plus efficiency?
ConvertKit Makes Me a Better Non-Profit CEO
What makes a good marketing email? For years, I thought it was a combination of colors and images, font types and social icons. I remember when Mailchimp released their drag and drop editor in November 2012 and everything changed for the amazing.
Creating opportunity through self-service
By transforming a manual process to a self-service solution, job posting conversion rates increased dramatically.
Why We Switched to Recurly at YNPN-NYC—and How It’s Already Paying Off
Learn how migrating YNPN-NYC from a static one-time membership checkout to a recurring payment provider, gamified conversion, and created a foundation for long-term, sustainable revenue.
13 Things I Wish I Knew Upon Graduation
13 tips that could have benefitted me when I graduated college in May 2010.
How a Rebrand and Paid Facebook Ad Yielded Over 340,000 Likes
Getting people to pay attention to you is hard on any platform. For the I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation (aka i[2]y Cancer Foundation), growing the social footprint didn’t have a clear path.