A Match Made in Facebook… Happy fourth quarter! End-of-year giving season is upon us, which also means we’re sneaking up on GivingTuesday. The Tuesday following Thanksgiving is one of the most influential giving days of the year when people invest in your mission and generosity is on full display. Tuesday, November 30 will be here…
The Keys to Retaining Your Donors In the course of a recent one-hour webinar, David Chatham with Angel Oak Creative and Jeff Hensley with Armstrong McGuire walked through the COVID fundraising landscape and what it means for nonprofit organizations going forward. Based on the stats, it was quite a year! The number of donors increased…
Lessons from Ecuador on perseverance, hope and creativity I wish I could say that life was easy. I wish I could tell you you’ll never experience pain or darkness or loss of difficult moments ever again. I wish I could tell you that your loved ones will always be around and your kids will…
Good directions for the way Home Meet Holly I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the term “fatal flaw” before, but when my closest friends rally around mine (all in good humor of course), there’s a unanimous vote for lacking directional ability. If my life depended on it, I wouldn’t be able to get…
Nonprofit Tough: Five Traits of a Strong Nonprofit Community Communities face challenges every day. Whether it’s homelessness, poverty, addiction, natural disasters or a global pandemic, a community is only as strong as those who live, work and serve there. And in most communities, nonprofits are on the frontlines helping to meet these challenges head…
Tough as nails. A tough cookie. Hanging tough. These are all ways we use the word “tough” to describe people who stand strong in the face of adversity. We admire people and organizations who persevere when the going gets tough. In Angel Oak Creative’s nine years of exclusively serving nonprofits, we’ve witnessed hundreds of organizations…