Helping Nonprofits Diversify Revenue, Scale Fundrasing, & Secure More Gen-ops Dollars
High-touch advisor and coach to Nonprofit leaders who want to fully fund their aspirational budgets year after year.
Is your nonprofit too dependent on federal dollars, restricted project-based gifts, or an annual gala?
Let’s fix that. You CAN scale your unrestricted charitable dollars and gain the flexibility you need for overhead, infrastructure, and a reserve. It doesn’t take a viral video, more events, celebrity endorsements, or a MacKenzie Scott gift.
Diversified funding is possible. Sustainability is possible.
Does your fundraising team know how to align their hours with the dollars you need?
Every year you intend to allocate more time to relational fundraising in hopes of securing larger charitable gifts to reach your aspirational budget. Even with a seasoned development director and a networked board, the transactional and reactive fundraising continues.
As the leader, you have the power to initiate change and get your team off the spin-cycle.
It’s time for a high-ROI funding model.
I advise business-minded, Nonprofit CEOs who are already running high-impact nonprofit organizations.
But there's still a problem…they need MORE unrestricted money. Yes, gen-ops dollars.
They simply don’t have the steady, flexible revenue to support the growth initiatives within their strategic plans or raise to their aspirational budgets.
They WANT to diversify funds or grow by 2X…5X, but that’s difficult without dollars for infrastructure investments. They WANT to ensure they’re building a sustainable revenue engine, but that’s challenging when your team focuses on transactional fundraising. They WANT to raise to a budget that represents their true need, but scarcity prevails.
Perhaps you’re in the same situation?
What’s frustrating is you know your nonprofit’s mission is deserving of MORE, but for years your budget has hovered at that same $4M or $10M mark. Or maybe you’re a $30M organization that’s growing, but the growth is in contracts, restricted government funds, or in-kind resources which leaves cash flow tight and gives you no flexibility.
Here’s the bottom line: It’s not a fundraising problem you have to fix first.
(Believe me. The sector’s chatter will say you can solve this problem with a better digital campaign, better social media, a better grant writer, a better board, or a better AI strategy.)
This could help in some way for some period of time.
But it’s not the real change you need to make.
You’ll never fully reach your true revenue potential unless you remove what’s blocking your unrestricted revenue growth at the root of your organization. These are the things that:
KEEP large donors from giving more to your nonprofit.
KEEP you from raising to your true budgeted need.
KEEP your reserve fund from growing and making progress toward sustainability.
KEEP your staff and board from reaching goals each year.
And, most importantly, KEEP you from scaling by 2X, 5X, and beyond.
THAT’S THE EXACT PROBLEM I SOLVE.
I’m not a traditional fundraising consultant. I’m your CEO’s non-equity business partner—linked arm-in-arm to change the business behind your fundraising engine.
As a result, my clients create financial sustainability, diversify funding, grow gen-ops revenue, and start securing the dollars they’ve been leaving on the table for years.
Some of my amazing nonprofit clients:
“A huge part of the benefit Sherry’s given me is the license to think boldly. When we started, [my org] had already put together a Strategic Plan [but had seen] very minimal growth. Sherry came in and highlighted to us that it may not be attractive to investment level donors. Thinking small wasn’t good for our organization, and it was actually hurting our ability to reach our fundraising goals. Now, we’re thinking big, and we’ve put into practice the things that allow us to get there. We’ve grown our budget by 40% this year compared to past years when a 10% growth trajectory was the norm.”
– Emily Norton, Executive Director, Charles River Watershed Association
Imagine your entire fundraising team knowing how to attract major donors and secure their best gift…every year.
You’d know what your entire team should STOP doing so they could START having investment-level conversations with individuals, foundations, and corporations who WANT to give to you. This is real relational fundraising.
