My Nonprofit Clients with the Greatest Growth have a Different Tone in the Budgeting Season

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a calculator with pen and paper showing it is budgeting season for some nonprofits and Sherry's clients with the greatest growth have a different tone during budgeting season.

For some of you, it’s budgeting season.

If you want to grow tremendously over the next few years, make sure you’re not letting the tone and invisible scripts of the nonprofit sector underestimate what you’re capable of.

 

My clients with the greatest growth? 

Their tone is different in the budgeting season.

 

Want a scenario with examples of tone? Here they are...👇🏻

 

Scenarios: 
📈 Our team is overwhelmed. We need to hire more fundraising staff

📈 It’s time to hire a deputy director to get our CEO out of the weeds

📈 Federal funding changed. We need to add benefits to attract talent.

📈Our strategic plan calls for 2X growth. We need to invest in learning to diversify through major gifts. 

 

👎TONE: Underestimating capability:
“We’ll see if we can fit it into the budget this year. Fingers crossed.”

 

👍TONE: Investing in capability:
“We put the revenue generating resources we NEED in our budget. That allows us to create a realistic fundraising strategy and plan that reflects that NEED.”

 

Remember…

When you equip your development team to operate in a HIGH-ROI model, you have more control over what your organization raises every year.

 

Wondering if your team is capable of raising more? If their org chart, budget, goal, plan, and activities aren’t rooted in hours-to-dollars, we should connect.

Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:

👣 Follow me onLinkedIn 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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