How to Attract Nonprofit Donors who Want to Give Generously to Your Mission

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a bank check representing how Sherry's clients scale their unrestricted donations by attracting major donors that want to give generously to the nonprofit's mission.

You don’t need to buy a wealth screening software for your staff to be able to FIND major donors.

But you DO need to start doing the things that ATTRACT major donors to self-identify themselves.


Here are 5 things my clients do to scale their unrestricted (gen-ops) donations:

Image of a quote by Sherry Quam Taylor, "Ask yourself: Are you doing the things that attract donors who want to give generously to your mission?"

1. Translate strategic assets into something a donor wants to fund

2. Create honest budgets including infrastructure, overhead, & reserves

3. Move staff and board into an hours-to-dollars funding model

4. Attract donors who ‘get-it’ and want to invest in gen-ops

5. Lead donors through investment-level conversations to secure their best gift


Listen...maybe a 5X budget is not your goal? But you'll certainly see the money that’s been sitting on the table for years when you shift into these activities. 

Last thing….

Ask yourself…Are you busy hunting and trying to FIND major donors?

Or are you doing the things that ATTRACT donors who want to give generously to your mission? One approach will fully fund your organization.

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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