FORBES Nonprofit Council // The Calm Fundraiser Wins: How Confidence Often Attracts Bigger Gifts

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Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
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As you know, I'm an Official Member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council! You can see ALL my article here.

This month's NEW article is called: 
The Calm Fundraiser Wins: How Confidence Often Attracts Bigger Gifts

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In Fundraising, desperation doesn’t scale revenue; it shrinks it.​

When we lead with urgency and scarcity, we unintentionally train donors to give transactionally, not relationally. We create short-term spikes and long-term ceilings. We also exhaust our teams and then wonder why we're stuck on the event hamster wheel.​



I find most leaders have a bold vision. The problem is that many orgs try to fund a bold vision with a small, transactional model, then blame fundraising when it doesn't work. 



Leaders don’t just require an ambition to change. They require a willingness to invest in and build a structure that could actually carry it. (This is the step that gets skipped all too often.)



Based on my experience with helping clients raise gen-ops dollars and scale philanthropy, in this article I share the four steps I'd recommend ​for attracting bigger gifts with confidence.

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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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