Nonprofit Leaders: Are you fighting for your limitations?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit leader working at his desk and contacting potential donors and funders through investment-level communication and relationships.

I heard my colleague, Tracy Goodwin, once say, “Stop fighting for your limitations.” I stopped in my tracks…as I see this way too often in the nonprofit sector.

 

Let me show you some examples…

 

⚠️ Limitation I often hear…

🗨️ And a recent quote I heard busting this…

 

⚠️Our Board Members says Corporations in our state give $10K checks max.

🗨️”We’ve decided to give you $25,000 this year.” 

-Corporate Donor who willingly gave a larger gift after shifting to an investment-level conversation 

 

⚠️Donors only like to fund projects.

🗨️“If you really need an unrestricted gen-ops gift, I can shift mine.” 

- Donor who willingly shifted his $25K project-based gift to gen-ops.

 

⚠️Funders don’t like us to email them that often.

🗨️“I encourage fundraisers to send follow-up emails. I’m human and just busy. The follow up shows me who is serious about partnering with us.” 

- Foundation Funder

 

These are just invisible scripts on autoplay.

 

STOP playing the scripts. Stop creating the ‘everyone does this’ story in your head. It’s leaving millions of dollars on the table.

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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