Nonprofit Checklist - Is your fundraising team leaving money on the table?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

When something’s not working in your fundraising department, how can you hunt for the right culprit? 

Too often, we’re fighting to solve the symptom and not the sustainable cure. 

You see, leaders reach out with these problems:

🔹Tight cash-flow because of revenue restrictions
🔹Reserve fund too small to be helpful
🔹Not enough gen-ops money coming in for overhead
🔹Funding is too dependent on one thing (gov, grants, event)
🔹Everyone is exhausted and wearing too many hats
🔹Staff is drained by events and appeals
🔹DD isn’t soliciting and can’t find major donors
🔹Board is underutilized or says they don’t know rich people
🔹Simply don’t have enough unrestricted money coming in to do what’s in our Strategic Plan.

Can I be blunt? Very few of these problems get solved by tweaking the fundraising department.

These problems get fixed elsewhere. 

These funding challenges get solved at the root of your business. And leadership must start there for long-term sustainable change. Once these core shifts are made, then your development team can learn how to be more strategic and start attracting investment-level donors who get this.

This is why sometimes I work with leaders and boards for months before the fundraising team enters the picture.

It’s in the leader's power to set the team up for success. Are you ready to invest in the root changes that allow you to transform your organization's budget?

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
Previous

GUEST POST // Compensation for Nonprofit Staff Members: 4 Strategies
Next

GUEST POST // Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Comparing the Top Providers