Nonprofit Leaders: Create Your Budget so it Reflects Your Organization’s Actual Need

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

What’s the cost of not creating a budget every year that reflects what you REALLY need?
 

❌ Salaries don’t keep up with market rate.

❌ Technology doesn't stay current.

❌ Teams are smaller than they should be.

❌ Reserve funds don’t get built.

❌ HR issues feel like a daily occurrence.

❌Strategic Plans don’t get fulfilled.

 

And, perhaps the biggest cost?

 

❌ Your development team isn’t equipped to actually RAISE to that budget number you really need. They just keep doing what they’ve always done and try a little harder. They’ll eventually ‘get-it’, right?

 

Push pause. You can’t keep trying to DO MORE, ON LESS.

 

And no quick-fix fundraising activity is your solution. That’s what’s hard. It doesn’t get fixed in 3-6 months.  

 

I don’t mean to be harsh. But you’ve got to pause and fix a larger problem. A root problem within your approach to setting your organization’s actual need and running a funding model that truly supports that need.

 

It’s a 12-18 month shift to start doing the things that ATTRACT investment-level donors and fix your revenue and cash flow problem once and for all.

 

But can you do it? Yep. I see organizations make this shift every day.

 

Is 2024 your year to fix your revenue problems at the root?

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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