New Podcast: Next-Leveling a High-Performing Development Team — A Case Study with Drew Moran at Nourishing Hope
Nonprofit CEOs - Is your Development Team pushing on the gas pedal or riding the brakes?
A Development Team who certainly has their foot on the gas pedal is over at Nourishing Hope in Chicago! And, their fearless leader Drew Moran is on my latest Case Study Podcast! YouTube here and Apple Podcasts here.
This past year I've been lucky enough to work with Drew and his incredible team of fundraisers. They're fun, they're fearless, and they're successful!
Take a listen and hear how their abundant culture is propelling them to exceed goals at every benchmark. Through our work, they've moved into even deeper investment-level conversations and it's showing!
Leader: How about you? Let's do a check on your team….
Riding the brakes looks like:
🛑 Auto-answering “we don’t have the money for that” to every expense
🛑 Lists of growth initiatives you’d LOVE to do, but don’t have the money
🛑 Underspending so often - it’s KEEPING you from increasing your revenue.
🛑 Nervous about growth - unsure you could grow more than a 5-10% every year
🛑 Hiding lack of accountability behind the busyness of events
Gas pedal looks like:
🛣️ Answering “let’s figure out how to do that” when opportunities come your way
🛣️ Creating an honest, needs-based budget every year (no squeak-by budget)
🛣️ Knowing the hours-to-dollars revenue plan that yields your true financial need
🛣️ Pipelining donors 2-3 years out because your multi-year $$$ plan excites you
🛣️ Consistently spending money on your processes, team, and infrastructure to propel steady amounts of gen-ops dollars
🏎️ If you answered yes to any of those it’s time to push the gas pedal, not ride the brakes.
Need to diversify revenue? Federal budget cuts impact you? Too dependent on one things like in-kind, earned revenue, restricted grants? Know you’re leaving money on the table running event to event?
Let's change this in 2026. You can apply to work with me here.
Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:
👣 Follow me on LinkedIn here where I share the same lessons I teach my clients about attracting larger gen-ops dollars and adding 7-figures + to their bottom line.
🍎 Read my GUIDE! THE TRUTH ABOUT GIVE/GETS :: Top 5 Reasons Your Board’s Give/Get Is Leaving Thousands (Sometimes Millions) on the Table. See how limiting board members to the Give/Get model restricts gifts and keeps your staff from reaching their full fundraising potential. Here to get it.
📈 Work with me to scale your org's revenue by 2-5X and fund your organization’s Strategic Plan // If you’re a business-minded CEO already raising MILLIONS but need to diversify revenue and secure more general-operating dollars to invest in growth, you can apply to work with me here.
