Invest Deeply in Your Nonprofit Team—Then Your Board Will Follow

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of nonprofit fundraising staff attending a training, representing how nonprofit leaders need to invest in their team deeply then the nonprofit board will follow in training and fundraising.

I’m going to give you two pieces of advice that might sound contradictory.

ONE: All board members need training to understand their role in fundraising (especially pipeline work).

TWO: Nonprofit fundraising staff shouldn’t wait for their board when it comes to fundraising. Go build your pipeline.

See, those feel contradictory. But, both are true at the same time.

You see, there’s often a hesitancy among some of the fundraising teams I work with. I guess I’d describe it as actively waiting.

It’s tempting to believe your board will eventually figure it out or that time will take care of it for you…but that rarely happens and at the end of the day they’re not experts at fundraising.

Should we equip the board to resource your organization? YES - It’s their job as board members.

Should we wait for our pipeline to grow until this occurs? NO - There's plenty of fundraising work the team can do themselves.

Last thing I’ll say to Nonprofit CEOs today . . .

Image of a quote from Sherry Quam Taylor, "First, invest deeply in your team. Then, the board will follow."

Have you equipped your fundraising team with the skills and knowledge to build a 3X pipeline of investment-level donors? If not….that might be why they’re waiting for your board.

Invest deeply in you and your team first, then the board will follow.

Want to know more about how I do this? Click here to read my methodology for building investment-level pipelines.

If you're ready to invest in your team, fill out this form and we'll have a first conversation.

Whenever you’re ready to scale your nonprofit’s general-operating revenue, there are THREE things you can do next:

👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I share insider fundraising info daily — the same lessons I teach my clients through my consultancy about securing larger major gifts and diversifying revenue. 

🍎 Get Resources + White Papers — download robust resources you can use to push against the nonprofits sector’s scarcity mindset, equip your board, and shift your entire team into high-ROI fundraising.

📈 Work with me to fully-fund your nonprofit organization’s strategic plan and aspirational budget. If you’re a business-minded nonprofit CEO or Executive Director with big growth plans but need to make charitable revenue from relational 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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