Guest on Tellwell The Podcast—Slow Down to Speed Up: Why Nonprofits Need to Rethink Revenue with Sherry Quam Taylor

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Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

Parents - You know how you DON'T have a favorite child...? Well, I'd also say that about all the guest podcasts I've recorded. But...

We're starting 2026 super strong with this one!

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I listened back to this podcast recording with Max Kringen at Tellwell Story Co. this morning and LOVED this conversation. You know how you just click with someone and the conversation is SOOO easy?...That's this episode with Max.

We talked about LOTS! If 2026 is your year to:
⭐Stop working harder --> Start working smarter
⭐Move from hare fundraising --> Relational tortoise fundraising
⭐Fire drills --> Long-term sustainability
⭐Irrational frugality --> Investment-level conversations

 

A few fun time stamps if you've got a busy day:
[5:25] 
How my High-ROI (hours to dollars) Model came to be

[10:56] 
How investing in coaches in my own life has helped my clients raise more hashtag#money

[17:07] 
What my kitchen rennovation during COVID has to do with hashtag#fundraising

[18:28] 
Irrational frugality in the hashtag#nonprofit sector and what to do about it

[28:00] 
What I really think about nonprofit events...

Last thing I'll say....I typically don't leave my desk! I do 99% of my advisory via Zoom. But, after we recorded this episode, Max asked me to come teach something fun in person (stay tuned!)...and I said YES. Really...I never say yes! I think it was the fact that we're both small town kids from the cold midwest. 

How about you? What can you say YES to that stretches you in 2026?

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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