Nonprofit Leaders: What WILL you do with your money?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

“Scarcity is being fluent in all the things you WON’T do with your money and NOT knowing what you WILL do with it.” —Ramit Sethi, Personal Finance Coach

I love that quote! 

Nonprofit CEOs - It’s time to educate everyone about what we SHOULD do with the money our organizations have in the bank.

AS THE LEADER YOU KNOW:

🔥 You must spend money to make more money

🔥 There are years (yes, years) where your program % might be perceived as low

🔥 What’s best for your organization  

🔥 What you need

SO, EVEN IF IT:

➡️ FEELS scary  

➡️ CAUSES your Board Members indigestion

➡️ CREATES more questions during donor conversations

Do it. 

Why? Because learning how to spend and invest money in growing (traditionally, overhead) results in more money within 2-3 years for programs. 

How do I know? I see it all the time. With this strategy, my clients regularly INVEST in their orgs to raise 2-3X more money.

But, first, it took investing in overhead. And at times it even felt uncomfortable.

This journey my clients take through this process? It’s a pretty practical path to take, but it pushes against lots of misconceptions in the nonprofit sector. 

The tricky part is your entire fundraising team must be able to articulate this in solicitations. That’s where I come in. 

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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