M. Angel Flores, CSPG

Pronouns: she/ella

Angel has over two decades of experience working with and within organizations across all nonprofit sectors. As a Senior Vice President, Angel is a highly motivated, results-oriented, and compassionate executive. She has advised organizations and planned and managed campaigns ranging from $20 million to $4 billion. She has extensive expertise and experience managing strategic operations, planning and directing large-scale capital and comprehensive campaigns, incorporating gift planning strategies, refining major gift programs, and building and fostering positive cultures of philanthropy.

Within CCS, Angel has held a number of leadership positions. For four years, Angel led CCS’s Gift Planning Practice Group (GPPG) – a firm-wide team of volunteers – to create a new project concept with the potential to diversify and increase immediate-use and deferred revenue for nonprofits. During her tenure, the GPPG developed a suite of materials to support CCS’s nonprofit partners, doubled its membership ensuring representation from across the firm; secured budget for advanced certifications for senior members; codified an internal education program for GPPG members; and formalized an internal online presence for support and resource sharing.

As a natural community-builder and prior to leading the GPPG, Angel cofounded and led the Working Parents + Caregiver Community in 2018, paving the way for the creation of additional ERGs and affinity groups. In 2020, she cofounded and led Refresh & Reaffirm (R&R), CCS’s employee-led wellness program providing mindfulness and movement courses and resources. Also in 2020, Angel was chosen to participate in CCS’s DEIB Working Group, which was instrumental in securing internal policy changes to support colleagues and in establishing a pro bono program and suite of resources for nonprofits led by and supporting communities of the Global Majority. Early in her CCS career, Angel led her team’s mentorship program for five years and served as one of a cohort of mentors for 35+ colleagues. Angel currently serves on the Executive Committee of AFP NYC and on the Board of the Philanthropic Planned Giving Group of New York (PPGGNY).

Prior to joining CCS, Angel worked for the Alvin Ailey organization, first with The Ailey School and later with Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation. Originally from West Texas, Angel studied English Literature and Dance at Washington University in St. Louis before moving to New York City. Angel currently resides in New York’s lower Hudson Valley with her family and sweet pup, Hank, and constantly draws on her dance, yoga, meditation, and Ayurvedic training to maintain her flexibility and strength in mind, body, and spirit.

External Thought Leadership

• “Providing Dignity Through and Restoring Reciprocity in Fundraising: An Inclusive Approach to Legacy Giving,” AFP New York City Chapter
• “Elevating Fundraising to Philanthropy to Lift Up All Women,” AFP New York City Chapter
• “Now is the Time to Innovate Philanthropy,” AFP New York City Chapter

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