Fractional CIO for nonprofits

Your ED should not be the accidental CIO.

Technology decisions keep rolling uphill—to the ED, COO, CFO, or whoever seems least afraid of the question. I give that work a senior owner without adding full-time headcount.

One person who knows the organization, works alongside your MSP, and keeps security, vendors, AI, and board reporting current all year.

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The actual problem

Your risk doesn’t look like a trading floor.

It looks like a funder asking for documentation you don’t have, a board that turns over, a former volunteer who still has access, or a vendor nobody has time to manage.

01Funder and grant requirements arrive without an internal technology owner.

02Your MSP runs systems; nobody translates technology risk for the board.

03AI tools appear faster than policy, contracts, or staff judgment can keep up.

04Vendor renewals become decisions by default because nobody has the full context.

What changes

Senior leadership, proportioned to the organization.

Decisions

A straight answer before you sign.

Technology, security, vendor, and AI questions reviewed in organizational context.

Governance

Work the board can see.

Quarterly written reviews, a current register, and an annual board-ready summary.

Continuity

Context that stays put.

No starting over with a new consultant every time the question changes.

What I handle

The decisions that don’t belong in a help-desk ticket.

  • Technology direction. What to fix, buy, replace, or leave alone.
  • Vendor oversight. Contracts, performance, renewals, and uncomfortable questions.
  • Security and AI governance. Practical policy and operating decisions staff can follow.
  • Funder and board reporting. Clear answers without jargon or cybersecurity theater.
  • Risk and incident leadership. Coordination and executive judgment when the stakes rise.

Assessment first

No guessing.

You leave with a current-state assessment, prioritized decisions, an applicable vendor/system/AI register, and a clear 90-day action plan.

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Tell me what landed on your desk

You don’t need full-time technology headcount to have senior technology leadership.

Free. If you don’t need me monthly, I’ll say so.