In Nonprofit Fundraising, You Must Do Something Different to Get Different Results

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

If you want to raise to your REAL budget and add $1M to your nonprofit’s bottom line but have struggled to do so for the last few years…how much would you pay to learn how to do that from someone who has done it time and time again?

 

I like to look at this investment in the percentage of ROI…. 

20%?    $200,000

10%?    $100,000

5%?      $50,000

1%?      $10,000

 

I talk to people weekly who want to add 7-figures to their nonprofit’s budget, but few want to get out of their comfort zone and invest in doing it once and for all.  

 

I believe this is a main reason 97% have budgets under $5M in the US.  [National Council of Nonprofits]

 

You must do something different to get different results. Be honest about the resources your org needs to accomplish your plans, get counsel from those who do this every day, and then spend the money that puts you on a different revenue trajectory.

 

My clients who grow the quickest? The most? The've stopped hesitating and started investing.

 

The last thing I'll say about this today…

Any advice I give to nonprofit leaders, I take myself for my own business. In any given year I will spend 10-20% on coaches or advisors who can help me get my business further, faster. Yes, it stings to write that check sometimes. But, I've never regretted it becasue I know the perceived risk of the spend only strengthens my committment to be an A+ student. 

 

The objectivity of outside coaches/advisors has a game-changer for me personally. That’s exactly what I give my clients. Apply here.

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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