What if our nonprofit board members don’t want to fundraise and they quit?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
Image of nonprofit board members meeting together representing how your nonprofit board needs to understand the resources that the organization needs to achieve what's in the strategic plan.

My client asked me to meet with her and her board member the other day to prepare for an upcoming workshop. As we proceeded through the content she asked, “Can I ask a difficult question?”

 

Her question: “What if our board members hear this workshop, don’t want to fundraise, and they quit?”

 

I paused. I reflected. I answered…"Your board has a new Strategic Plan with some exciting growth plans. The board’s job is to understand the resources the organization needs to achieve what's in the plan."

 

Resources = Fundraising

 

Anyone with this view is essentially saying, “Let’s grow and change the world…but I’m not willing to help provide the resources to do it.”

 

So, that simply doesn’t add up.

 

It’s time for honest conversations.

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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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