FORBES Nonprofit Council // Fundraising in a Year of Uncertainty Calls for Choosing Possibility

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Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
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This month's NEW article is called: 
Fundraising in a Year of Uncertainty Calls for Choosing Possibility

READ FORBES ARTICLE HERE 

Here's an honest question I ask in the article: Is your fundraising energy going toward worry or possibility right now?

🌧️Worry is a recognizable soundtrack in a development shop. It’s the talks around looming federal cuts, unanswered emails from key funders, anxiety over whether the year’s goal is still within reach and the fog surrounding next year’s targets.

☀️Possibility sounds different. It turns attention toward relationships you can foster, donors you can thoughtfully reconnect with, visibility moves that will attract new funders and a forward-looking plan that donors can actually invest in. Teams anchored in possibility aren’t naive; they’re active because they understand that today’s conversations become next year’s revenue.

Nonprofit Leader - You didn’t inherit a perfect external environment for raising charitable revenue. So, you'll need to get intentional about where to put your attention and time. 

To choose possibility, you and your team must align both fundraising hours and spending with your ambitions.

How about you? Can you choose possibility today?

READ FORBES ARTICLE HERE

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

👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I share the same lessons I teach my clients about attracting larger gen-ops dollars and adding 7-figures + to their bottom line. 

🍎 Read my GUIDE! THE TRUTH ABOUT GIVE/GETS :: Top 5 Reasons Your Board’s Give/Get Is Leaving Thousands (Sometimes Millions) on the Table. See how limiting board members to the Give/Get model restricts gifts and keeps your staff from reaching their full fundraising potential. Here to get it.

📈 Work with me to scale your org's revenue by 2-5X and fund your organization’s Strategic Plan // If you’re a business-minded CEO already raising MILLIONS but need to diversify revenue and secure more general-operating dollars to invest in growth, 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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