Nonprofit Leaders: The nonprofit sector promotes the quick-fix but you must play the long game . . .

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

To really build a sustainable, steady, and diversified revenue path for your nonprofit you must play the long game.

 

The “quick-fix, latest trend, viral video” thing the sector promotes is keeping orgs from doing this.

 

Most organizations come to me with great intentions of making this shift. They want to allocate more time to relational fundraising to diversify revenue and secure more gen-ops dollars.  

 

Yet, too often the cycle of transactional and reactive fundraising continues, and nothing changes.

 

Why is that? Perhaps it’s because: 

🟧Leaders feel like they should know how to do it themselves…but developing a team that knows how to exceed goals every year takes time you can’t give.

 

🟧It’s tempting to believe your current fundraising team will eventually figure it out or that time will take care of it for you…but that rarely happens.

 

🟧We hope the board create magic…but at the end of the day they’re not experts at fundraising.

 

🟧Hiring a seasoned fundraiser feels like the right thing to do… but real change in your revenue trajectory starts with the CEO. Everything mirrors the leader.

 

🟧Doing more marketing, grant writing, events, appeals feel like the easier alternative but they sabotage your success by stealing the hours you need to spend on investment-level relationships.

 

And lastly…..

 

🟧Developing a high-ROI fundraising department is not easy or fast.  

 

You can’t do it alone.  

 

No one can.  

 

No one should.

 

Want to chat about what that looks like for you? Go here.

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 growth-minded Nonprofit CEOs who are scaling their organizations but still need larger amounts of general operating support to truly grow. She breaks their teams free from the limitations of transactional fundraising and helps them reimagine their entire approach to revenue generation.

The high-performing leaders Sherry works with want to find and secure more unrestricted revenue from investment-level donors. They simply need more funding to do what’s in their Strategic Plan. To achieve this, she transforms their teams and boards into high-ROI revenue generators - revealing how they can align every hour they spend fundraising with new principles that double and triple donation sizes.

As a result of learning her methodology, Sherry’s clients regularly add 7-figures of gen-ops revenue to their bottom line by learning how to attract investment-level donors that WANT to fund their work. But the biggest transformation they experience is knowing the exact strategy, path, and team that will propel them to generate the 2-10X dollars their strategic plans require.

Sherry attributes the success of her business to her passion for modeling radical confidence to the future CEOs in her house - her two teenage daughters.

https://www.QuamTaylor.com
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