Nonprofit Board Members: In Fundraising, Good Intentions Aren’t Enough to Create Change . . .

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit board room with board members discussing the strategic plan and budget, recognizing how to shift good intentions into action and results.

One thing I want Board Members to understand about Fundraising…

 

Good intentions aren’t enough to create change.

 

Three ways to shift those good intentions into action and results?

 

When your Executive Director…

1. Says the fundraising team needs major gift training? 
Put it in the budget.

 

2. Wants to spend money on infrastructure that helps raise more money? 
Put it in the budget.

 

3. Needs the board to learn how to generate an impressive pipeline from their network? 
Put it in the budget.

 

This is how you create change. This is what real support looks like.

 

Need help shifting intentions into real change next year? Apply here to get help.

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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