Invest Deeply in Your Nonprofit Team, Then Your Board Will Follow

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

I’m going to give you two pieces of advice that might sound contradictory. 

ONE: All board members need training to understand their role in fundraising (especially pipeline work). 

TWO: Nonprofit fundraising staff shouldn’t wait for their board when it comes to fundraising. Go build your pipeline. 

See, those feel contradictory. But, both are true at the same time. 

You see, there’s often a hesitancy among some of the fundraising teams I work with. I guess I’d describe it as actively waiting.

It’s tempting to believe your board will eventually figure it out or that time will take care of it for you…but that rarely happens and at the end of the day they’re not experts at fundraising.

 

Should we equip the board to resource your organization?  YES - It’s their job as board members.

 

Should we wait for our pipeline to grow until this occurs?  NO - There's plenty of fundraising work the team can do themselves. 

Last thing I’ll say to CEOs about this today: Have you equipped your fundraising team with the skills and knowledge to build a 3X pipeline of investment-level donors? If not….that might be why they’re waiting for your board.   

Invest deeply in your team first and the board will follow. Want to know more about how I do this? You can 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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