Your Nonprofit Staff Needs to Lead Your Board

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

I feel like I can be direct with you.

 

Hosting a Fundraising Workshop for your Board won't create magic. 🧙‍♂️🔮🌟

 

Do I require a Board Workshop within all my contracts? Yes.

Do I want your Board to understand their role in resourcing your organization? Yes.

Will a workshop be the one thing that changes your board? Helps them ‘get it’? No.

 

Why?  

 

Because boards take their fundraising cue from your staff.  So, your staff needs to know how to lead the board through the strategy and steps of relational fundraising.

 

If your staff is on the appeal/campaign/event spin cycle and isn’t regularly attracting and securing large gifts from mid- and major-level donors, you need to train them first.

 

[FULL STOP]

 

So, if you have plans to scale your organization, diversify funding, and achieve the bold initiatives in your strategic plan, let’s make sure everyone is equipped.

 

But, start with your staff and leadership first. It’s their job to manage the entire process.

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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