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 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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