Guest on Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership Podcast: Unlock the Unrestricted Gifts You Deserve

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Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
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This month I have the privilege of being on Dr. Patton McDowell's podcast, Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership! 

 

The episode is called:

UNLOCK THE UNRESTRICTED GIFTS YOU DESERVE

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Patton always asks his guest about their ‘BIG IDEA’ at the top of the show. 

 

Here's mine:

Securing general-operating dollars isn’t as hard as the sector makes it out to be. Oftentimes, we as fundraisers, are doing things that KEEP donors from giving in this way. It’s time to bust these invisible scripts we’re telling ourselves.

 

The invisible scripts (or myths) we spoke about . . .

 

Myth: 
Unrestricted Gifts (gen-ops) are the hardest donations to secure

 

Myth: 
People only want to give to projects they can touch and feel

 

Myth: 
Donors don’t want to be bored with the numbers, they want stories of impact

 

Myth: 
We don’t know (or can’t find) donors who would give gen-ops gifts

 

Myth: 
Our team says donors don’t want to give gen-ops gifts because they want their dollars to mainly go to the mission

LISTEN HERE

We also talked about: 

* How to stop defaulting to transactional fundraising

* What it takes to move donors beyond project-only thinking

* Why knowing your numbers builds donor confidence

* How to engage boards and CEOs in authentic, high-level donor relationships

 

If your strategic plan calls for a bigger budget and bolder investments, this episode will show you how to confidently ask for (and receive) unrestricted gifts that fund real growth.

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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