Create a True and Honest Budget For Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

I was emailing back and forth with a prospective client.  I asked why he’d reached out? His answer was simple...


"We want to start raising to our org’s true & honest budget every year."

 

Seems simple, right? Well, if it were that easy everyone would be doing it.

 

[And for real….I have this conversation daily] Here’s how it goes:

 

"Our budget for next year is $3.4M."

❓Is that a squeak-by budget?  

🟰Yes

 

❓Is that number based on last year and a little more?  

🟰Yes

 

❓Does it include what you really need to retain staff & propel growth?  

🟰No

 

❓Does it include a number that builds your reserve fund?  

🟰No

 

❓Does it include staff & resources that would yield $3.4M?  

🟰We don’t know.

 

In all honesty, their budget might be $3.9M…. their true need might even be $4.1M.

 

So, why not put a budget, plan, and team in place to raise to $4.1M over the next few years?

 

[crickets]

 

Yep. You can do that. And, donors WANT to give to you when you do this.

I see it every day.

 

You can actually make this shift....creating your true budget and then building the team that can shift into the activities that yield that number every year.

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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