Nonprofit Fundraising: How Your Development Team Can Secure Unrestricted Gifts

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor
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Nonprofit Leaders: I don't need to tell you that UNRESTRICTED gen-ops donations make the greatest difference to...your mission, your annual growth, your infrastructure, and your long-term sustainability.

 

But here's what I hear too often…

⚠️Nobody wants to give unrestricted gifts. They aren't sexy.
⚠️People only like to give to tangible projects.
⚠️We don't know anyone who would give large unrestricted gifts.

 

These statements are NOT TRUE. Flip those statements around and ask these questions…

 

Does my development team:

❓know how to lead donors through investment level conversations?
❓present our financials to explain how gen-ops $ propel the entire mission?
❓solicit major gifts in one-on-one meetings (vs. application, event, or appeals)?
❓consistently do the things that ATTRACT investment level donors who GET IT (& would give unrestricted gifts)?

 

If you've answered no to any of the above, we should talk.

 

How about you? What belief do you need to challenge today?

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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