Using the Right Set of Keys to Fully Fund your Nonprofit's Strategic Plan

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

There’s a phrase my coach used the other day that I loved. What did she say?

Old keys do not open new doors.

You know, many nonprofit CEOs come to me with a two-year old Strategic Plan that they haven’t been able to fund. At the time that visionary plan was an exciting new door. 

But, too often, organizations use old keys to attempt to fund their growth-minded initiatives. I don’t need to tell you that to grow programs AND overhead, you need large amounts of general-operating support.

Do, do this for me? Let’s check and see if you’re using the right set of keys . . .

🔑 Keys that DO NOT fully fund your Strategic Plan:

❌Campaigns
❌Events
❌Better board members
❌Finding people with DAFs
❌Social Media
❌A cleaned up database
❌Grant applications
❌ChatGPT
❌Marketing brochures

🔑Keys that DO fully fund your Strategic Plan:

🔥An honest needs-based budget
🔥A financing plan that acts as a compass to raise to that budgeted need (not a fundraising plan)
🔥An org chart and team that enhances a high-ROI funding model and balanced portfolio load
🔥A team knowing how to lead donors through investment-level conversations to unrestricted gifts
🔥An org that makes decisions based on hours to dollars alignment
🔥A set of tools that empower donors to give their best gift, each year


CEOs - Which set of keys is your team holding?

Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:

👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I give away insider info every week - 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 in so many ways and 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 from individuals and family foundations 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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