Reach Your Stretch Goal Halfway Through Your Fiscal Year

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

The biggest flex in the nonprofit world is to NOT be in a fire drill the last month of your fiscal year. 

 

But, Sherry….isn’t this how every fundraising department operates? No. 

 

Could you really raise 100% of your stretch goal halfway through your fiscal year?  

YEP.

 

Ask a handful of my clients who have reached this mark recently!

 

AND, they’ve each got 6+ reserves set aside at minimum.

 

It's great, right? But it’s not the best part.  

 

So what is it? THEY GET TO BREATHE the rest of the year.

 

Take time to reset, think, focus on the people they serve, and recenter on WHY they each started on their individual journeys in the first place.

 

This is HUGE - their work is super stressful. They CANNOT afford to be on the fundraising spin-cycle year after year.

 

So, what did it take to achieve this? 

Getting super clear on HOW to create an annual financing plan every year that leads to growth, WHAT they need to spend their hours on every single week that leads to unrestricted gifts, and gaining the skills and confidence to ask for what their organizations NEED.

 

Congrats, to all of these amazing clients! You know who you are!

P.S. This fundraising model they’ve learned? I teach it every day to Nonprofit CEOs all over the country. Go here if you want to learn about what that looks like in 2025.

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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