Nonprofit Leaders: What to do when your nonprofit has the same problems, same budget, and same results each year . . .

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

Have I told you that I love Form 990s? So many nuggets of important information in there!

 

Anytime I hop on the phone with a new nonprofit I quickly look up their Form 990. I scroll back to the Support Schedule in Part II. There you’ll find what the organization has raised over the last five years. 

 

Sometimes it's steady growth, but too often, it's up and down or even fairly plateaued...You know, kinda raising the same amount of money every year.

 

That’s frustrating…

- Same problems

- Same budget

- Same activities

- Same results

 

That sounds awful actually. Especially, when an organization WANTS to grow and the Strategic Plan calls for BIG growth!

 

What to do instead…

- Seek help and knowledge (for you AND your staff)

- Apply what you’ve learned (get outside help if you need to)

- Be an A+ student and align your fundraising hours with dollars

- Attract donors who see this and ‘get you’ (they'll want to invest in gen-ops)

- Become the thing people WANT to invest in

- Use that investment to scale your mission

 

My question for you today is this? Would YOU invest in YOUR MISSION? Would you give your best gift to your mission? Would you give a gen-ops gift to your mission? 

You can make yourself and your organization an attractive investment. But, your team needs to know how to do this outside of events or appeals.

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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