My Nonprofit Client Secured a $1.5 Million Dollar Gift Through TWO YEARS of Relationship Building

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of two nonprofit leaders at a business desk giving a high five to represent their fundraising success through relationship building and connecting

Last week, I got a text from my client who secured a $1.5M gift… 

Image of a text thread between Sherry Quam Taylor and her nonprofit client who secured a 1.5 million dollar gift

That 1st comment is incredible. (It’s a $1.5M gen-ops gift. Yes, gen-ops.)

….But that’s not the comment I want you to focus on. It’s the 2nd one…

Image of a text thread between Sherry Quam Taylor and her nonprofit client who secured a 1.5 million dollar gift through 2 years of conversations and relationship-building

Yes, 2 years of relationship building, connecting, educating, and cultivating.

This client example is exactly why I wrote my new GUIDE: 
Who Wins in Nonprofit Fundraising? Tortoise vs. Hare

 

SPOILER: The tortoise wins.

 

Not the hare. The hare is focused on urgent appeals, campaigns, events, and auction items.

 

The tortoise is focused on the steady, deep relationships that change your organization’s trajectory and sustainability.

 

If the shift is that simple, why doesn't every development department just do it?

 

Because it's an organizational shift in how you attract and generate gen-ops revenue…not just a fundraising issue. It must start with your CEO. That's what everyone gets wrong. 

 

How about you? Are you ready to get help with this shift?

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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