Nonprofit Boards Take Their Cue From The Staff

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit leader meeting with board members in an office, representing how the nonprofit staff needs to know how to lead the board through the strategy and steps of relational fundraising.

A truth many don’t want to hear? 

Hosting a Fundraising Workshop for your Board isn’t going to create magic.

⭐Do I require a Board Workshop within all my contracts? Yes.

⭐Do I want your Board to understand their role in resourcing your org? Yes.

⭐Will a Fundraising Workshop be the ONE THING that changes your board and helps them ‘get it’? No.

Why? 

Boards take their cue from the staff. 

Your staff needs to know how to lead the board through the strategy and steps of relational fundraising. If your staff is on the appeal/campaign/event spin cycle and isn’t regularly attracting and securing large gifts from mid- and major-level donors, you need to train them first.

So, if you have plans to scale your organization, diversify funding, and achieve the bold initiatives in your strategic plan, let’s make sure everyone is equipped.

But, start with your staff and leadership first. It’s their job to manage the entire process.

Is your board taking their cue from a fundraising staff that's fully equipped? No? You can apply to work with me here.

Whenever you’re ready to stop leaving money on the table, 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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