FORBES Nonprofit Council // Strategic Plan, Meet Reality: How To Fund The Plan You Actually Wrote

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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 articles here.

 

This month's NEW article is called: 
Strategic Plan, Meet Reality: How To Fund The Plan You Actually Wrote

READ FORBES ARTICLE HERE

 

✅ You wrote an amazing Strategic Plan
❓ Now, how to fund it?...

Well, I'm always glad when fundraising makes the list of strategic priorities. Yet, this is exactly where many plans stall. 

Often, leaders call me months later and say, “We can’t execute the plan because we don’t have the money.” 

What they really mean is, “We don’t have enough flexible, general operating revenue to hire the people, buy the systems, and build the runway the plan requires.”

If “raise more” is on your roadmap, check out this article where I explain how to translate it from a placeholder into a funded strategy.

 

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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