Nonprofit Leaders: Do you know how to multiply a donor's gift?

Nonprofit GrowthDevelopment
Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

My client called me the other day to tell me he had grown a $1K gift to a $5K gift using the strategy tools we’d created together. I celebrated big time!

The reason?

Well, the process of increasing a gift from $1K to $5K is the SAME as growing a gift from $100K to $500K.

Now they know exactly how to 5X a donor’s gift.

That donor had always reactively just given $1K.

This is the real work of proactive, relationship-based fundraising:

👣Learning how to identify what’s blocking a donor from giving a larger gift
👣Leading them past those blocks
👣Confidently taking the proper time to wait for the ask
👣Then knowing how to ask (not by email, campaign, or event)

Sometimes good fundraising feels counterintuitive.

We’ve been told for DECADES that fundraising is exhausting, urgent, fast, and deadline driven.

I don’t do urgent. You don't need to buy into that story either.

Fundraising that fully funds your entire organization every year is slower, thoughtful, and not rushed. It's not a fire drill to a fiscal year-end.

If this doesn’t describe your development team, a shift needs to be made.

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 NEW 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, just send me an email (Sherry@QuamTaylor.com) with the subject line “grow.” Tell me your budget next year and why you need to scale.

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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