Nonprofit Fundraising—Sustainable Growth Through Practical Relationship Building

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit leader meeting with a donor through practical relationship building.

The nonprofit sector has tried to trick us.

 

It tells us fundraising looks like:
❌Tiered sponsorship packages
❌Annual golf outings
❌Deadline-driven appeals and campaigns

 

But real fundraising? It’s practical relationship building.
☀️Playing the long-game
☀️Taking 12-, 18-, or 24-months to get to know someone
☀️Natural conversations
☀️Reaching out when you don’t need anything.
☀️Comfortably making the ask when it’s a win/win

 

We chase. We create urgency. We force deadlines.

 

It’s salesy and comes off as desperate.

 

Nonprofit CEO: The key to true, sustainable success and growth?

 

Equip your team to fundraise in a way that:

📈Takes a multi-year approach
📈Secures the gen-ops dollars you need for infrastructure
📈Smoothes out your cash flow
📈Diversifies revenue
📈Attracts investment-level donors
📈Fully funds your mission every year

 

Yes, it’s doable. Lots of people say to me…”Well, that’s a real paradigm shift.”

 

Not really. It’s just practical. It’s easy if you let it be. 

 

Honestly, I see the shift happen every day.

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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