The Million Dollar Question in Nonprofit Fundraising

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of 100 dollar bill representing the million dollar question in nonprofit fundraising: "If I gave you $1M right now what would you do with it?"

If your fundraising team can't answer this question, you may have a bigger problem than you realize.

“If I gave you $1M right now what would you do with it?”

Classic, right? Does this still happen?

Yep - was just told the story a few weeks ago.

The answer to this question is strongest when your org has a:
🟡Multi-year needs-based budget articulating your org’s TRUE need (not squeak-by)
🟡3-5 year revenue plan balancing that needs-based budget
🟡Few tools in hand to help guide donors through investment-level conversations

There’s a CLEAR answer to that question that sets you up for a large gen-ops gift.

But few orgs are ready for it. 

👉Too many pivot to list of projects that $1M would fund. We all know that approach often creates restricted gifts and perpetuates cash flow problems.

How about you? Are you ready to answer this question? What Strategic Positioning work do you need to do this year?

No? You can apply to work with me here and you'll know exactly how to answer that!

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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