The Better Approach To Your Nonprofit Goal Setting—A Totally Different Pace

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

For too long the nonprofit sector has told everyone that fundraising is about setting a goal, one time.   

You know….

What’s your Gala goal?

What’s your Giving Tuesday goal?

What’s the Campaign goal?

What’s your Golf Outing goal? 

What’s worse is teams and even boards become obsessed with hitting these types of goals way more than reaching the overall annual need of the organization. 

This approach holds too many amazing missions back from securing all the revenue they need each year to fund their entire annual budget.   

Frankly, it’s not the type of fundraising or goal setting that will build a sustainable organization. And it certainly won’t allow you to diversify funding, smooth out cash flow, or build a reserve. 

The better approach to goal setting? It’s a totally different rhythm, discipline, and maintenance of a three-five year need. That’s a totally different pace. 

That shift in pace is the key shift my clients make to STOP receiving occasional donations and START securing every donor’s best gift, each and every year. 

How about you? What’s your approach to goal setting?

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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