My Approach to Nonprofit Consulting

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit consultant business desk with computer and notebook representing how Sherry Quam Taylor works with her nonprofit clients and becomes their trusted partner in raising more money.

In my corporate career I worked 70 hour weeks, had a 1+hour commute daily, and got into the office and most days by 6:30 am. I also loved what I was doing…And, honestly?

 

I was good at what I did.

 

I hustled and, because of it, I climbed the ladder quickly. My clients, co-workers, and consultants enjoyed working with me, and we were true partners.

 

So, when I became a consultant 13 years ago I was really confused how many strangers (board members, mainly) would say…

 

“We don’t like consultants. They just give advice and don’t really do anything.”

 

Huh?

 

This was literally describing THE OPPOSITE of my approach to consulting. Frankly, it was the opposite of what my clients were telling me…

 

What I was hearing?

“I wish we would have worked with you sooner.”

“You’ve helped me gain time back in my schedule.”

“You’re always available to me.”

“Now, I find myself saying ‘what would SQT do?’”

“I know we’ve just started our work, but I never want you to leave me!”

“You’re not really a consultant, are you? You’re more like our partner.”

 

My experience? Most of my clients don’t want me to go after 12 months of work. They’re making more money and desire more time with me. They want my advice and they want to keep partnering together.

 

To those folks who “hate consultants”...I’m so sorry you had a bad experience at one point in your lives with a consultant. But there’s a reason I have a growing, successful, referral-based business. It’s because I’m not that person.

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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