WHAT IS MARKETING & WHY DOES MY MINISTRY NEED IT? Put simply, marketing is the promotion or selling of a product or service. Within the context of ministries, marketing can quickly be dismissed as irrelevant, unnecessary or taboo. Should religion be sold? Does Jesus need promotion? Isn’t marketing manipulation? These are all good questions. Time…
10 Tips For Your Nonprofit Logo Design Your organization’s cause has value, and your brand’s exposure makes that value known. So how can you spark the branding for your nonprofit organization? By creating a simple, yet effective logo. Impactful logo design is all about creating a perfectly unique visual brand mark for an…
20 Web Design Statistics for 2022 That will Blow Your Mind! It isn’t the early 2000s anymore. There is no excuse for having a poor design on your website, and now it’s easy to differentiate between good and poor user experience. Online visitors believe that your organization’s quality correlates directly to your website’s…
3 Ways to Make Your Nonprofit’s Website Viewers Happier Meeting the needs of everyone who comes to your website can be a challenge. Everyone is on their smartphone, their tablet and their laptop, fully expecting that you have what they need to interact with you online. That puts a lot of pressure on…
5 signs you need a website redesign Digital marketing matters. And we all know the internet isn’t going away anytime soon. So for nonprofit organizations, having an online presence allows you to connect and engage with potential and current constituents through a platform they can easily access anywhere, anytime. After all, websites have…
The Four P’s to Communicating Through a Disaster Nonprofits step into the most challenging and persistent issues that impact our world – hunger, homelessness, poverty, disease, addiction, mental illness and so much more. They amaze us with the work they do around the clock, but when disaster or crisis strikes, nonprofits are called to serve…
TAKING A BITE OUT OF SUMMER HUNGER Guest blog: Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Kids everywhere look forward to summer vacation. Getting out of school for three long months means days filled with sleeping late, playing with friends, car trips with families, and the freedom to do whatever they like for hours on end. But for many…
Neighbors Helping neighbors Guest blog: Meals on Wheels Orange County, NC As our name suggests, Meals on Wheels Orange County, NC (MOWOCNC) provides nutritious meals. And that’s really important since 1 in 7 older adults in Orange County, NC lives below or within 150% of the poverty line. In addition, 25% of them live alone.…
Sitting back Slow down you crazy child. Four years ago, I cranked up my red minivan, rolled the windows down and blasted Vienna on the way to my high school graduation on a warm June night through the foothills of western North Carolina: my home, and the only one I’d ever known. Full…
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month (#MHAM). As a community, maintaining our mental health is a critical part of living healthier, more impactful lives. At Angel Oak Creative, we’re blessed to partner with a number of amazing nonprofit organizations like Healing Transitions, Resources for Resilience, Lucy Daniels Center, North Raleigh Ministries and Hope Reins…