Nonprofit Leaders: It’s Like You’re Painting the House With a Fine Point Brush!

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

Everyday I hear…

  • “We need to find more DAF donors.”

  • “We’ve got cash flow issues because of grant reimbursement delays.”

  • “We’re running a deficit budget again this year.”

  • “I need more unrestricted gifts for innovation, technology, and infrastructure.”

  • “I’d love to pay my staff a living-wage salary with benefits.”

…and the list goes on.

 

…and what fixes every one of these things?

➡️“Relational fundraising and major-gift work”

 

We ALL know this.

 

But FEW commit to equip their teams with the skills to be successful in it.

 

The thing is, this is a VERY DIFFERENT skillset than traditional fundraising. You know, things like events, appeals, grant applications, etc.

 

It’s like as a sector we keep saying…

  • My entire house needs to be painted.

  • I’m using a small fine point brush.

  • But, I can’t figure out why it’s taking so long.

  • And, I can’t figure out why it’s so hard.

 

It’s just that you’re using the wrong approach and the wrong tools.

 

I can guarantee you, you won’t scale your revenue with just a faster version of what you're already doing. It's a different model entirely, one rooted in aligning your team's hours with dollars instead of activity.

Whenever you’re ready to find the right brush, 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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