Ric Armstrong, Senior Consultant
For the last 20 years Ric has successfully assisted national, regional, state, local and tribal organizations meet and exceed their development and fundraising goals.
As the he director of a regional job training and economic development program in Appalachia, Ric secured funding for the first supported employment and independent living program for persons with developmental disabilities in eastern Kentucky. While working with the Christian Appalachian Project, he led rural organizations in the acquisition of resources for economic development and job creation. He was selected to lead the Ford Foundation in a one week site visit of eastern Kentucky which resulted in a grant of over $1,000,000 to the Mountain Association for Community and Economic Development (MACED).
Ric has also helped numerous religious organizations create new development programs and increase their organizational capacity to raise funds. Ric’s work creating the first development program for the Catholic Charities of New Mexico resulted in a development program raising $1,000,000 annually.
As Vice President of Fund Development and Marketing for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston Houston he led the development program to the next level by increasing annual revenues from $8.5 million to over $11 million and created their first annual budget surplus of over $250,000. During his time in Houston, Ric led the development department to raise over $2.4 million annually including three black tie fundraising events per year grossing over a million dollars per year. Ric and his staff implemented a grant writing program generating over 80 proposals a year with an 80% success rate.
Most recently Ric has worked with national and regional organizations serving the Native American community. In this capacity, Ric has developed relationships with individual donors, corporations, foundations and Tribal entities in support of scholarships, educational programs and social initiatives for Indian communities and organizations.
Throughout his career Ric has also provided development services such as organizational assessments, board training, strategic planning and fundraising strategies to help organizations build their capacity to develop key relationships and resources in support of their mission. Ric also leads capital and major gift campaigns as well as grant writing. In this capacity Ric authored and/or facilitated grants for four different organizations to secure funds from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation totaling almost $2,000,000.
Today, Ric continues to serve the non-profit world and is honored to be part of the team with Kevin Hagen and Associates.
Kevin Hagen & Associates
Capital Campaigns and Capacity Building for Non-Profits
"Ric did an outstanding job establishing a strong base for fundraising and public relations…individual donations more than quadrupled as a result of his efforts and the media gave great coverage and good publicity to our work as a result of his dedication. Thank you.”
Most. Rev. Michael Sheehan,
Archbishop of Santa Fe
Ric Armstrong
