Nonprofit Leaders: Fundraise in Years, Not Days

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit calendar showing that you need to fundraise through years, not days.

Here’s the most underrated advice I can give you today:  

Fundraise in years, not days.

 

Really. All these campaign goals, fake deadlines, and thermometers at golf outings are keeping your revenue short-sighted and your team on a spin-cycle.

 

Real, sustainable fundraising in a multi-year view allows you to:

🗓️Secure steady annual funding to do what’s in your Strategic Plan year after year.

🗓️Build relationships with mission-aligned donors at a proper pace (18-24 months).

🗓️Explain to donors why you need their BEST gift, EVERY year.

🗓️Look ahead and know the pipeline that needs to be filled for next year.

🗓️Prioritize tortoise-style fundraising over hare activities that always take too much time and energy.

 

If you're ready to make the change from short-sighted revenue activities to real, sustainable fundraising in 2026, you can apply here to get help with that.

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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