430: Own The Tech, Scale Impact with Chris Conlee

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ...

Why Your Nonprofit Can't Afford to Outsource Its Own Capacity

There is a moment that arrives in almost every mission-driven organization. You build something that works. A program, a platform, a process. It depends on one person, one vendor, one funder, one system that only one set of hands understands. And for a while, that works just fine.

Then that one thing disappears. The developer leaves. The funder pulls out. The grant ends. The person who knew how everything fit together walks out the door. And suddenly the thing you...