Questions You Should Ask Yourself About Your Nonprofit Fundraising Team

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of a nonprofit fundraising team having a strategic meeting about investment-level donor conversations and other strategies of growth with major donors.

Questions to ask if you’re worried your fundraising staff might not be comfortable with leading 1:1 investment-level conversations…

 

Afterall, 50-75% of your revenue should come from these types of relationships/meetings.

 

Questions you should ask yourself…Does my team:

❓Depend too heavily on tours and site visits as their go-to cultivation tool?

❓Have donor meetings but then question what the next step should be?

❓Avoid financial conversations and just stick to stories/mission?

❓Send emails to major donors with projects at multi-price points?

❓Shy away from organizational growth conversations?

❓Seem like they always prioritize dead-line driven emails, events, and campaigns?

 

Answered yes to any or a few of these?

 

Then, there’s likely lots of money left on the table.

 

What if investing in your team raised $500K more in philanthropy? $1M more? $3M more?

 

And what if these dollars were general-operating dollars? For growth, infrastructure, technology, living wages, etc.

 

Game changer.

 

Your team can make this shift.

 

I see it all the time. If you want help shifting, you can apply here.

Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:

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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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