Nonprofit Leaders: Make sure your tone is different in the budgeting season . . .

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

Happy April! And for some of you that means it’s budgeting season for July FY starts. My favorite time of year!

Now, if you want to grow tremendously over the next few years, make sure you’re not letting the tone and invisible scripts of the nonprofit sector underestimate what you’re capable of.

My clients with the greatest growth? Their tone is different in the budgeting season. 

Want a scenario with examples of tone? Here they are...👇🏻 

Scenarios:  

📈 Our team is overwhelmed. We need to hire more fundraising staff.

📈 It’s time to hire a deputy director to get our CEO out of the weeds.

📈 State funding changed. We need to add benefits to attract talent.

📈Our strategic plan calls for 2X growth. Time to invest in diversifying funding.

👎TONE: Underestimating capability:  “We’ll see if we can fit it into the budget this year. Fingers crossed.”

👍TONE: Investing in capability: “We put the revenue generating resources we NEED in our budget. That allows us to create a realistic fundraising strategy and plan that reflects that NEED.” 

Remember . . .

When you equip your development team to operate in a HIGH-ROI model, you have more control over what your organization raises every year than you think (read this again).

Wondering if your team is capable of raising more? If their org chart, budget, goal, plan, and activities aren’t rooted in an hours:dollars model, we should connect.  

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

👣 Follow me on LinkedIn 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.

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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