Sep 15, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Is your nonprofit bogged down by administrative tasks? Learn how to streamline your operations by outsourcing your back office. Join Phil Cooke https://philcooke.com in this conversation with Shae…
Shae HinsonGuestYou may be one of the most, um, how should I put this, entrepreneurial thinkers that I know.
And kind of the anchor, the, the, the, I guess, the biggest, maybe I'm, I'm wrong, but is, is, uh, called Acordis.


So fast-forward 10 or 12 years, and I'd sold, bought a business, sold a business and thought, "What is the rest of my career gonna be?" And the idea of working with lots of different nonprofits as the back office was just intriguing to me.
Now, so for people that aren't familiar with the term, tell me what back office means.

So think of it as the programs that an organization runs are the foster home, the pastor training organization.

But then they also have accounting systems and database systems, and they have to do some marketing, and they gotta raise funds, and when they get funds in they gotta receipt those funds back to the donors.
You may be one of the most, um, how should I put this, entrepreneurial thinkers that I know.
And kind of the anchor, the, the, the, I guess, the biggest, maybe I'm, I'm wrong, but is, is, uh, called Acordis.


So fast-forward 10 or 12 years, and I'd sold, bought a business, sold a business and thought, "What is the rest of my career gonna be?" And the idea of working with lots of different nonprofits as the back office was just intriguing to me.
Now, so for people that aren't familiar with the term, tell me what back office means.

So think of it as the programs that an organization runs are the foster home, the pastor training organization.

But then they also have accounting systems and database systems, and they have to do some marketing, and they gotta raise funds, and when they get funds in they gotta receipt those funds back to the donors.
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