How to Grow Your Nonprofit Organization by Investing in Overhead

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

Picture this . . .

MacKenzie Scott just gave you $10M. Your leadership team gathers to discuss where the funds can be used for maximum impact. . . 

✨Will you start new programs? Maybe.
✨Invest in technology to deliver current programs faster and further? Probably.
✨Replicate your local model through the region? Pretty cool.


If it were me? I’d advocate for a hefty overhead allocation.

Why?

Because steady and growing investments into both administrative and fundraising are likely the two areas that have trailed behind for too long. Sometimes, decades.

💫Will you invest in shifting your team of fundraising generalists to high-ROI revenue producers?

💫Will you put the technology in place that allows your fundraising team to be more efficient revenue generators?

💫Will you put the structure in place within your advancement team’s org chart that allows you to see how you’d grow by millions of dollars over the next few years?

 

You will only continue to grow if you allocate investments across all three areas of your organization; programs, admin, and fundraising. If one suffers, they all do.

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 so they can scale.

🍎 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 keeps your staff from reaching their full fundraising potential. Here to get it.

📈 Work with me to fund your organization’s Strategic Plan and scale your budget by 2 - 5X // If you’re a business-minded CEO already raising MILLIONS but still need more general-operating revenue 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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