Alexis Chitwood

There’s a moment every nonprofit leader hits — usually quietly, behind the scenes — where the mission outgrows the tools. Spreadsheets multiply. Email threads fragment. Volunteer hours live in three different places. And the people doing the work are stuck managing logistics instead of impact. I hit that moment with Texas Valor Project . So instead of duct-taping another system together, I built one. This is the story of Volunteer Hub  — a full volunteer management platform I designed and...

There’s a lot of noise right now around AI. Most of it sounds like: “Just type one sentence and your app builds itself.” Anyone who has actually built software — or supported real organizations — knows that’s not how this works. But here’s the part that is real and genuinely exciting: AI is lowering the barrier to building useful, production-ready tools for small businesses and nonprofits in a way we’ve never seen before. Recently, I had the opportunity to test this in a very real, very...

Introduction When revenue stalls, marketing is often the first place organizations look. More campaigns. More channels. More spend. But in many cases, the issue isn’t marketing at all. It’s the system around it. The Common Misdiagnosis I see this pattern repeatedly: Revenue slows Leadership pushes for more activity Teams execute harder Results remain inconsistent The underlying problem is rarely effort. It’s usually misalignment across: Strategy Messaging Tools Team structure Decision-making...