Building Systems That Serve Your Mission (Not the Other Way Around)
Publication date: August 10, 2025
What Building a Store Taught Me About Systems, Community, and Becoming an Operator
Publication date: October 16, 2025
About Kenny Kane
Kenny stumbled into nonprofit leadership in 2010 as an intern who just needed college credit. Over the next decade, he helped build the systems and infrastructure that grew I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation (later Stupid Cancer) from a founder's personal contact list into a thriving community serving thousands of young adults facing cancer.
He learned customer service at a small-town pharmacy, discovered the hard way that most email marketing advice doesn't work for mission-driven organizations, and figured out how to build technology that serves people rather than processes.
Kenny now lives in Austin, Texas, where he continues to help organizations build systems that scale with their mission rather than despite it.