Nonprofit Decision-Making: Looking at Decisions Through the Percentages Lens Vs. the Dollars Lens

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

Want to know what helped me grow in wisdom as a decision-maker about my own personal and business finances?  It’s a simple trick that provides incredible objectivity…Want it? 

 

Here it is...👇🏻

 

Looking at decisions through the percentages lens vs. the dollars lens?

 

Examples of the two lens…

 

EXAMPLE 1:

Dollars: We need a new Website, but it costs $50,000. That FEELS like a lot.  

Percentages: We’re an org with an annual budget of $7M. That new Website is less than 1% of our budget but could help us grow revenue by 10-20%.

 

EXAMPLE 2:

Dollars: Our Strategic Plan calls for 2X growth, but a growth consultant costs $100K.

Percentages: 2X growth for our org means scaling from $4M annually to $8M. Investing 2.5% ($100K) to learn how to raise 200% more feels like a “risk” we’d take.

 

It's a game-changer. Try it.

 

Last thing. Money decisions do weird things to us. We have all these invisible scripts around money that keep us from having perspective.  

 

Want to grow? Gain perspective by flipping dollars to percentages.

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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