FORBES Nonprofit Council // 4 Indicators Your Fundraisers Need Relational Fundraising Training

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Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

As you know, I'm an Official Member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council! You can see all my articles here. 

This month's NEW article is called “4 Indicators Your Fundraisers Need Relational Fundraising Training”. 

Yet, if it’s so “easy” to do relational fundraising, why don’t all organizations just take this approach? 

“Sadly, many development teams simply haven’t been properly trained to do relational fundraising. Growing up through the ranks, many tasked with fundraising are expected to plan events, send out appeals and prioritize everything but building relationships with donors and prospects. As a result, these time-intensive fundraising activities fail to secure the general operating dollars truly needed for infrastructure, building a solid reserve or stabilizing cash flow.” 

CLICK HERE to read the rest of the article.

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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