Nonprofit Fundraising—The Cost of Doing Business isn’t the Enemy
One of the most dangerous things in the nonprofit sector is the negative tone around the cost of doing business.
Read: The resources/staff you need to scale!
These are investment opportunities that yield a high rate of return. And critical when attempting to fully finance your nonprofit aspirational budget.
Intrigued? Then, take a page from my client’s book:
A few years ago when he became the leader of his nonprofit organization:
📉They’d been in the red for years
📉He felt like his team was leaving money on the table
📉There were individuals giving at events, but they weren't giving their best gift
📉Institutions were giving on auto-pilot through sponsorships and applications
📉They had a diverse donor pool, but simply didn’t have enough gen-ops dollars coming in
24-months later, he’s running a completely different organization…
👊In the black, raising 7-figures more of unrestricted cash
👊leading a high-ROI producing fundraising team focused on relationships
👊inspired and active board members introducing the mission to 6-figure investors
👊and serving more people than ever before
What did it take?
I showed him how he could reimagine his overall approach to revenue generation so he could empower his board and staff to start doing the things that yielded greater results.
Now everyone knows how to align their hours with dollars and confidently lead donors to their best gift.
But, here’s what I want you to hear. The change he made has way less to do with changing the FUNDRAISING activities.
It has WAY MORE to do with removing everything in your way that’s BLOCKING revenue generation. These are the things that KEEP you from having true, investment-level conversations with donors. These are the things that KEEP you from financing your entire mission.
I’m serious. Traditional fundraising activities are second.
The root of the problem must be fixed first.
What about you? Wondering what an additional 7-figures of UNRESTRICTED revenue would mean for your organization also?
I can help you with that. Apply to work with me here.
Whenever you’re ready to scale your nonprofit’s general-operating revenue, 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.
