Nonprofit Leaders and Fundraisers are Spending Too Many Hours on the Wrong Fundraising Activities

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of nonprofit leader working on administrative tasks showing that many are spending too much time on the wrong fundraising activities.

I started working with a client back in the Fall to grow their annual fund. I work with organizations for twelve months and we're at month six of our engagement. 

 

I recently asked if this ED would mind being a reference for a prospective organization who was considering hiring me….

 

Here's what she reported back…

Yes, we spoke on Monday... I raved. She's mostly concerned about time investment and board support. [The board has] been 'burned' by consultants in the past. She seems in a similar place to us, lots of fundraising events, similar budget size, etc. I told her my biggest regret is not doing it sooner and that she'll figure out the time thing because it's worth it to have this eventually free up time!

 

Here's the thing I chuckled about!

 

This is EVERY board's concern when hiring an outside consultant: How will the ED and Fundraising Team have time for this work? They are already SO busy.

 

That's actually the wrong question to ask….

 

The right questions look more like this:

What can we take off your plate so that you can learn how to build a sustainable, fully-funded organization?

What resources do you need so that you can start doing higher-ROI revenue-generating activities?

 

You see, too often leaders and fundraisers are spending too many hours on the WRONG fundraising activities in the first place. 

 

Scaling your revenue is not adding more tasks or hours to your already-full plates. It's changing what's on the menu.

 

Are you ready to change what's on your menu? You can apply to work with me here.

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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