Nonprofit Leaders: What is Keeping Your Nonprofit from Growing?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a calculator and budgeting reports showing that the biggest thing that keeps nonprofit orgs from growing is their lack of spending— their irrational frugality.

In my experience, most nonprofit leaders and board members agree with the phrase, “You have to spend money to make money.” 

But when you look at their budget, there is no evidence of this . . .

Evidence I’m looking for?

🔍Headcount increases as a result of the budget growing

🔍Technology to track donor experiences and generate more dollars

🔍Skills-based training for teams (like AI, Major-gifts, etc.)

🔍Marketing and Brand assets

🔍Major-gift Collateral

The biggest thing that keeps orgs from growing is their lack of spending— their irrational frugality.

You must identify and invest in resources on a regular basis to scale your organization’s revenue.

Full stop.

What would you add to this list?

If I had to shift this list slightly…I'd also add:

🔍Paying competitive (beyond living wage) salaries

I don't think it's a coincidence that my client who pays above living wage and corporate-competitive salaries also recently secured a 6- and 7-figure gen-ops gift.

Donors get it.

But, you may need to learn how to position your organization in a way that attracts these gifts. That's where the investments come in.

You ready? I can help you with that. Apply to work with me here.

Whenever you’re ready to attract these gifts, 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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