Are your nonprofit’s board members standing in the way of growth?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
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I’m sorry to say that too often I witness THIS sad occurrence in this nonprofit sector of ours...

That thing I witness?

Board Members standing in the way of growth plans. 

 

I see too many board members:

❌Overly skeptical
❌Irrationally frugal
❌Risk-adverse
❌Scarcity-minded
❌Micro managing

 

My guess is they mean well and assume this positioning is all part of governance or exerting financial oversight. But, it’s not.

An organization’s growth has direct correlation with leadership’s comfort level with spending and investing in infrastructure and resources. This is the opposite of frugality and scarcity. 

Of course Board Members should exercise oversight and ask good questions.  

But, if you're a board member, please make sure you’re also being generous with your ideas, positive with your advice, and regularly encouraging calculated risks. 

Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:

👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I share insider info daily — the same lessons I teach my clients about attracting larger gen-ops dollars and diversifying revenue. 

🍎 Grab FREE Guides + White Papers — download robust resources you can use to push against the sector’s misconceptions, equip your board, and shift your team into High-ROI fundraising.

📈 Work with me to diversify revenue & secure the gen-ops gifts you need to grow. If you’re a business-minded nonprofit CEO with big growth plans but need to make charitable revenue from investment-level donors a bigger part of your budget, you can apply to work with me here.

Sherry Quam Taylor

Sherry Quam Taylor works with business-minded Nonprofit CEOs whose Strategic Plans require expansive budgets and larger amounts of general-operating revenue for growth. To become investment-level ready, Sherry helps leaders see their revenue potential and helps them see what may be blocking donors from giving in this way. Sherry’s clients know how to attract larger donors by solving the funding challenges at the root of the issue.

As a result of learning her methodology, Sherry’s clients become sustainable, diversify revenue, and know how to add significant amounts gen-ops revenue to their budgets. But mostly, their development departments and board have transformed into high-ROI revenue generators – aligning their hours with relational dollars and set free from the limitations of transactional fundraising.

Sherry attributes the success of her business to her passion for modeling radical confidence to the future CEOs in her house - her two college-aged daughters.

https://www.QuamTaylor.com
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