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.
Kenny’s 2026 Tech Stack
People often ask what tools I rely on day to day. The honest answer is that my stack is less about novelty and more about reliability. I care far more about whether something fits into my operating rhythm than whether it is the newest thing on Product Hunt.
This is a snapshot of the tools I’m using right now, how they show up in my work, and where I’m seeing real value versus diminishing returns.
Nurture Fundraisers Using CauseVox, Zapier, and ConvertKit
Fundraising is a crucial part of a non-profits existence. The biggest opportunity for a non-profit is leveraging its community to fundraise on its behalf. The hardest part is maintaining the attention of community members and empowering them to feel confident in their efforts.
Non-Profits: Technology is The Biggest Donation You Aren’t Leveraging
Any non-profit COO or CTO will tell you that finding the technology that appropriately addresses their needs is tough to come by. The platforms that do exist with the non-profit in mind often cost upwards of $25,000 to engage. There are several problems with this situation. First, it is impossible to know that a CRM/donor database/360° fundraising platform will meet your needs long-term. Second, these platforms will lock you in for a year at least, and the much-needed updates will never come. Lastly, these platforms are insular systems without API or any means of connecting it to other solutions. (San Francisco, feel free to help us out here.)
How to Be Less Busy with Slack
In the early days of Stupid Cancer (Then called I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation), we had two employees and a small team of "executive" volunteers. Everyone was spread out around the country, and keeping in touch was critical.