The Three Reasons Nonprofit CEOs Reach Out to Me . . .
Nonprofit CEOs often reach out to me in times when they're in pain or feeling a sense of pride . . . here’s what I mean:
➡️ 3 PAIN Situations:
🩹 Invested in a Strategic Plan but struggling to raise the budget to do what’s in it.
Two or three years go by and the visionary ideas never come to fruition because the team wasn’t able to raise to the budget number the big vision required.
🩹 Raising millions but are trapped in Restricted Revenue land where it’s hard to justify overhead spends or build a reserve fund.
Thrilled to celebrate project-based grants or contract wins, but with too little unrestricted revenue your nonprofit’s engine (infrastructure and staff) will suffer.
🩹 Spinning from the cadence of all things fundraising; events, appeals, applications, social media, and emails.
This one feels like the envy of the others. They have more work than they can handle. But while they continue to find donors through transactions, their time is limited to attract donors and build relationships. And, 75% of your revenue must come from relationships to be sustainable.
➡️ 3 Situations of PRIDE:
🦚 Feeling odd because 2020-22 were amazing years financially for your organization and grew by millions. You’re not wasting the crisis you just went through.
You know the last few years were tough on so many, but you grew by millions of dollars and want to equip your entire development team to keep up with the growth.
🦚 Celebrating a giant MacKenzie Scott-style gift and the opportunity to create a sustainable organization is now.
You’ve got a great team, but in the past you couldn’t invest resources in them as deeply as you would have liked. Now it’s time to equip your A+ team members with next-level skills.
🦚 Running a great organization that has scaled based on contract, government, or earned revenue, but you know you could do so much more with larger sums of charitable donations. The sky is the limit!
You’ve always wondered if more people would give to your mission. And now's the time to see the exact path to that question.
All of these have one thing in common.
None of them get fixed purely by ‘better fundraising’. All of them get fixed by addressing the root of the issue . . . what I call the business behind fundraising.
When my clients fix that first, they see the thousands (sometimes, millions) of dollars they’ve been leaving on the table for years.
How about you? Are you in one of these 6 situations?
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.
