Nonprofit Board Members: Are you being an energy giver? Or an energy taker?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
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Nonprofit Board Members: May I ask a direct question?  

 

In your board service - Are you being an energy giver? Or an energy taker?

 

I spend too many HOURS on the phone with incredible nonprofit leaders who are not being supported, who are being micro-managed, who are fed up with 'glass-half-full' conversations.

 

They say, “Sorry, you have to be my therapist today.”

 

Of course I am always happy to lend a listening ear, but honestly, the overall nonprofit governing structure and Board/Staff vibe is hard.

 

So Board Members, ask the hard questions and do your due diligence…but, make sure you're also being generous with your compliments and regular with your encouragement. Be forward thinking, give freedom, and be trusting of the decisions leaders are making.

 

It will go a long way.

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

👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I share insider info daily — the same lessons I teach my clients about attracting larger gen-ops dollars and diversifying revenue. 

🍎 Grab FREE Guides + White Papers — download robust resources you can use to push against the sector’s misconceptions, equip your board, and shift your team into High-ROI fundraising.

📈 Work with me to diversify revenue & secure the gen-ops gifts you need to grow. If you’re a business-minded nonprofit CEO with big growth plans but need to make charitable revenue from investment-level donors a bigger part of your budget, 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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