Nonprofit Fundraisers Need To Have Investment-Level Conversations With Their Donors

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

You know what surprises me?

 

The number of fundraisers that AREN’T consistently hosting 1:1 donor meetings.

 

Honestly, too many fundraisers don’t know how to move donor relationships beyond the event or volunteer experience and into investment-level conversation.  

 

CEOs: Do your fundraisers know how to do this?

 

[crickets]

 

So, what happens when I coach fundraising teams how to start doing this?

 

They get WAY BIGGER gifts. They get more UNRESTRICTED gifts.

 

Like 2X - 10X bigger.

 

I see it all the time.

 

It's your job to make sure your team is prepared to attract investment-level donors and engage them in deep conversations/relationships. This is not a natural skill set every fundraising professional has had training in.

 

Last thing I’ll say about this . . .

 

Your fundraising team’s job is to lead every donor to their best gift, every year. If they’re letting major donors regularly give outside of 1:1 donor meetings and direct solicitations, you're leaving money on the table. Often, 7-figures worth.

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 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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