Nonprofit Leaders: Are Your Fundraisers Soliciting Donors?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit leader who is meeting with a potential donor to "make the ask" after building and cultivating the relationship.

Here's a question every executive director should be asking.

Are my fundraisers soliciting donors?

Like, for real.

Sitting down.

In person.

One-on-one.

Making “The Ask” after taking 6-24 months of cultivation and stewardship.

Not in an email. Or at an event.

No?

Then you’re leaving so much money on the table. Thousands…Hundreds of Thousands…Millions, even.

Here's the thing….I find that the majority (I'd guess, 95%) of development professionals haven't had true enterprise-level sales training. They ‘make asks’…but in the form of emails, applications, paddle-raises, or sponsorships.

This is the #1 sign your fundraising team needs more training. If you're ready to equip yourself and your entire team to solicit donors for their best gifts, every year, you can apply to work with me here.

For more, read my “4 Indicators Your Fundraisers Need Relational Fundraising Training” at Forbes Nonprofit Councils.

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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