A growth partner for nonprofits · Nashville
Support designed to endure.Enrolled in person, with dignity.
ATLAS Empowered designs and runs face-to-face fundraising programs for nonprofits — monthly support, enrolled in person and carried with dignity.
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Campaign experience
The aim
Recurring support, by design.
ATLAS builds programs around monthly commitments — support designed to endure. Enrollment happens in person, honestly, and is set up directly with your charity's own systems.
Outcome-led by design
Every program is designed toward one aim: durable recurring support, enrolled honestly and stewarded well.
People, employed properly
Our fundraisers are W2 employees of ATLAS — recruited with care, trained before they speak for a mission, and accountable to the firm's standards.
The ask, done with dignity
Face-to-face enrollment works when it respects the person in front of you. Context first, consent always, no pressure ever.
Selective on purpose
ATLAS takes on a few missions at a time and serves each one well. Partnership starts with an application, because focus is part of the craft.
The mechanism
How a partnership works.
A disciplined sequence from first application to steady stewardship.
Apply
Tell us about your organization, your mission, and what recurring support would make possible. The application is short and considered carefully.
Conversation
If there is a potential fit, we set up a working conversation: your goals, our mechanism, and an honest look at whether they match.
Program design
We shape a program around your mission — the story your fundraisers carry, the enrollment experience, the standards the team is held to.
In the field
Trained, W2-employed fundraisers represent your cause in person, with named accountability and a clean enrollment handoff.
Stewardship
You stay informed through a steady reporting cadence. The relationship is built to be reviewed, adjusted, and renewed on its merits.
The people
Two founders, one standard.
Vision
Xichen Mao
Xichen Mao sets the firm's direction: which missions ATLAS serves, what a partnership should feel like, and where the firm goes next.
Operations
Zach Pyron
Zach Pyron runs the machine: hiring, training, field standards, and the operating cadence that keeps every campaign accountable.
Met one of our fundraisers?
If you would like to confirm that someone represents ATLAS Empowered, write to us with where you met them and we will verify directly.
Bring your mission to the table.
Partnership starts with a short email. Every inquiry is read by a founder. You hear back either way.