FORBES Nonprofit Council // The Real Work After A Founder Leaves: Building A Durable Funding Engine

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Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

Is your nonprofit organization still confusing "viability" with "vibrancy"?.

There's a moment I watch for when a new nonprofit CEO follows a long-tenured founder. It doesn't usually happen in the first month or the first board meeting. It comes a year or two in, once the new leader has earned trust and honored what came before. That's when they realize just squeaking by isn't the same as actually thriving.

As a member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council, I shared a story like this in this month's article. It's built around a conversation with a CEO who stepped into her role after a founder led the organization for nearly four decades.

This month's NEW article is called: 
The Real Work After A Founder Leaves: Building A Durable Funding Engine

READ THE FORBES ARTICLE HERE

Her posture from day one wasn't just to raise more money. It was to become a trustworthy steward of what had been built, and a bold designer of what came next.

The shift that changed everything wasn't more appeals, more events, or more campaigns. It was the courage to name the organization's real financial need out loud, and invite donors into investment-level partnership instead of a transactional gift.

How about you? Is your organization funding a durable engine, or just funding another year?

Whenever you’re ready to talk about building a durable nonprofit funding engine, there are THREE things you can do next:

👣 Follow me onLinkedIn where I share insider fundraising info daily — the same lessons I teach my clients through my consultancy about securing larger major gifts and diversifying revenue.

🍎 Get Resources + White Papers — download robust resources you can use to push against the nonprofits sector’s scarcity mindset, equip your board, and shift your entire team into high-ROI fundraising.

📈 Work with me to fully-fund your nonprofit organization’s strategic plan and aspirational budget. If you’re a business-minded nonprofit CEO or Executive Director with big growth plans but need to make charitable revenue from relational 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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