Who We Are:

Since 2015 Decided Excellence Catholic Media (DECM) has been a leader in publishing local, faith-based, community magazines across the United States. We believe that having a strong professional work ethic, a commitment to excellence, and a joyful spirit are three keys to success in every avenue of life.

These characteristics are the distinguishing traits of our publishers. Inspired by our mission, our publishers build relationships with local business owners and connect them with thousands of homeowners and influential community leaders.

Throughout the global challenges of 2020-21, Decided Excellence Catholic Media has remained one of the fastest growing media companies in North America. We believe that this success is a testament to the hard work, quality service, and commitment to excellence that is lived out each day by our local publishers and home office team. In addition, our continued growth is proof of the value of local, trusted media sources.

Our local magazines strengthen communities by shining a spotlight on neighbors and celebrating their contribution to the community. Our business sponsors are embedded into these local faith-based networks of homeowners and enjoy the benefits of having a trusted brand.

We would love to hear from you if you are interested in opening a local publication, joining an existing publication team, or learning more about other career opportunities. Now is the time to join the DECM family!

ABOUT:

Catholic Concepts is a launch pad for great ideas with an eye on the eternal and feet on the ground. We’ve seen incredible creativity and innovation coming out of the Catholic sphere, and we want to be a resource and a haven for these good ideas to ignite the imagination of the nation! Catholic Concepts brands all feed our mission to start conversations through joyful products and services. We offer screen printing, custom fulfillment, custom product creation, beautiful and meaningful gifts, and ways to order your life around the rhythms of the church!

Our Story:

It all started with a conversation about donut socks, as most good things do…
"I can wear socks for national donut day. How cool would it be if I could wear saint socks on a saint's feast day?" said Sock Religious' co-founder, Scott Williams. His wife, Elisabeth, thought he was joking, laughed, and they continued their weekend in Chicago.

A few days later, he took a sock template with stick figure sketches to his colleague, Madison Cipoletti, and asked if she could help him make a sock with Pope St. John Paul II on it. The next thing they knew, they had created the first design as well as a design to honor Pope Francis that they would bring to NCYC in 2017. The socks sold out before the conference was over!

Today, Sock Religious continues to rapidly grow, and makes not only socks but t-shirts, stickers, onesies, and coffee mugs. We have heard countless stories over the years of how our products have offered encouragement, hope, support, and joy to the people who wear them! We are happy to Start Conversations Through Joyful Products.

In 2022, we expanded our product offerings by creating a new Umbrella Brand, Catholic Concepts - Breathing New Life into the Catholic Market. Now, we have additional brands to serve Catholics in different ways. To learn more about Catholic Concepts and our family of brands, click here.

Our Team:

Those socks don't end up in your mailbox by themselves. There are a lot of moving parts that bring our products from dream, concept, design, revision, manufacturing, picking, and packing to shipment. We are a small, growing, and mighty team. Learn more about our team members here!

In 2014, three siblings had an idea. What would it look like if we took the newly popular concept of crowdfunding and stretched it beyond simply funding people's material needs to providing hope for people’s spiritual needs?

Out of those discussions, GiveSendGo was born. After over a year of development and setbacks, we launched GiveSendGo with a beta version in early 2015.

We had meetings daily to talk about and pray for GiveSendGo and the direction we were headed. Once we felt the site was ready to be put out into the world, we had a public launch party in October 2015. We saw steady growth as we worked tirelessly behind the scenes with fixes and changes, making the website work more efficiently while learning the lessons needed to grow a crowdfunding platform.

We ran the race in obedience year after year, patiently waiting for the day GiveSendGo would take off. Little did we know God was just preparing us for the plans he had for us.

At the end of the summer of 2020, during the middle of a pandemic, we watched as GiveSendGo was thrust into the political spotlight for allowing a campaign that mainstream media had shut down and was censoring. Unbeknownst to us, we had stepped onto a battlefield and had to take a stand. After much prayer, discussion, and counsel, a decision was made. GiveSendGo was created for such a time as this. Not to take one side or another politically, but in the middle of a divided political culture, we were to be focused on the very reason we started GiveSendGo: to share the Hope of Jesus through crowdfunding with everyone who comes to our platform.

That continues to be our focus as we stand for freedom.