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Chasing Stars vs. Chasing Connection: What Really Matters in Nonprofit Fundraising
How Blogging Led to a Business (and a Ring): The KK Digital Story
From T-Shirts to Impact: How I Built the Stupid Cancer Store
Nonprofit Degree vs. On-the-Job Experience: What Prepares You Best?
Legacy Projects and Letting Go
To the Class of 2025 — and to My 2010 Self
How I Use ChatGPT to Work Faster, Smarter, and Keep My Head on Straight
What Tech-Forward Nonprofits Get Right — and Why Most Are Still Behind
The Tools I Actually Use: My Cloud Stack for Running a Modern Business
How I Earned My MBA Without Pressing Pause on Life
From Automation to Augmentation: How Generative AI is Changing Nonprofit Leadership
Fifteen Years Later: From Intern to CEO, and Still Fighting Cancer Like Hell
The Chief Automation Officer
My Smart Home
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?
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.
My Top Influencers of 2016
Over the past year, I've accumulated several different types of email subscriptions. From Seth Godin's daily musings to Nathan Barry's drip email about his book, I've read and enjoyed them all.
3 Automations to Make Year-End Fundraising a Breeze
It's that time again: year-end fundraising and the race to December 31st. While this can be the most wonderful time of the year, it's also the most tedious, data-intensive, drive-you-to-drink time of the year. Unless you have the right tools in place.
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.