The One Million Dollar Gift: A Problem all Nonprofit CEOs would like to have . . .

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

What would you do if you were less than 60-days into your new fiscal year and landed a ONE MILLION DOLLAR gift?

I know. You’d take that problem, right? Well, that’s just what happened to my well-deserving client. That’s not even the best part! . . .

For context, I’ve been working with this founder for almost two years now. She’s an A+ student. A learner. Takes instruction with precision. 

That best part I mentioned? 
When she asked for a smaller gift from the same organization months earlier she got ‘a no’.

But, remember . . . she’s an A+ student and here’s what we’ve consistently worked on together:

🐢Go slow to go fast.
🫶🏻She works for a donor’s BEST gift. That relationship takes between 6-24 months. She lets it take that long. 

👄Speak like YOU.
🫶🏻She’s learned how to show up as her authentic self. Not as some #fundraising version of herself. Act normal. Speak human. That’s how donor’s see the real you!

⛔No doesn’t mean no.
🫶🏻She realized she wasn’t talking to the decision maker. Every single no can be a ‘not yet’ with consistent networking and persistence.

🚀Don’t make decisions for your donors.
🫶🏻She asks for what she needs. Not for what she thinks the donor can give. She has an innovative Strategic Plan to take the organization to 10X growth. 

That 10X growth plan?

She’s a few years ahead of schedule.

Nonprofit CEO: Notice what you didn’t hear? You didn’t hear appeals, events, campaigns, or wealth screening software. Might fundraising for your team and organization be different from what the sector has told us for years? Yep. Your hunch has been right.

Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:

👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I give away insider info every week - 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 in so many ways and keeps your staff from reaching their full fundraising potential. Here to get it.

📈 Work with me to fund your organization’s Strategic Plan and scale your budget by 2 - 5X // If you’re a business-minded CEO already raising MILLIONS but still need more general-operating revenue from individuals and family foundations 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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