Fall Funder Series: A Discussion with Aba Taylor, Executive Director of Brookline Community Foundation

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Written By Sherry Quam Taylor

This week on my Business Behind Fundraising podcast, I’m bringing the FINAL episode of my Three-Part Fall Series featuring funders we all admire! I’m asking all the questions that you want to know from funding partners. In case you missed one of the interviews, I've linked all three below…
 

🍂In August, we had Shireen Zaman of the Ford Foundation’s BUILD program. 

🍂Then, in September you heard from John Tracey of the Simons Foundation.

🍂Now, here in October, you’ll hear Aba Taylor, Executive Director of Brookline Community Foundation in Boston!

 

Here’s the snapshot of my time with Aba:

[02:25] Be inspired from the start! Aba shares here personal journey and the inspiration she took from her parents who immigrated to the States from West Africa…

 

[06:00] Aba explains what a community foundation is and why she's passionate about the role they play in the ecosystem. 
 

[11:00] Where Aba is driving her organization today and what role she sees BCF play as so much post-covid federal funding slows down. "What does it mean for everyone in our community to not just survive, but thrive?"

 

[16:30] How Aba has approached relationship-building with partners the organization funds…

 

[21:00] What misconceptions does Aba see in the grantee/grantor relationship?

 

[25:00] What has been Brookline Community Foundation's approach to funding grantee partners (gen-ops? project-based?) and how trust-based philanthropy drives this.

 

This series has been fun for me! What was your biggest takeaway? 

 

I’d like to say a big thank you to Aba for her time and insight! Take a listen and let me know what you think! YouTube link below…Apple Podcast link here.

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Sherry Quam Taylor

Sherry Quam Taylor works with growth-minded Nonprofit CEOs who are scaling their organizations but still need larger amounts of general operating support to truly grow. She breaks their teams free from the limitations of transactional fundraising and helps them reimagine their entire approach to revenue generation.

The high-performing leaders Sherry works with want to find and secure more unrestricted revenue from investment-level donors. They simply need more funding to do what’s in their Strategic Plan. To achieve this, she transforms their teams and boards into high-ROI revenue generators - revealing how they can align every hour they spend fundraising with new principles that double and triple donation sizes.

As a result of learning her methodology, Sherry’s clients regularly add 7-figures of gen-ops revenue to their bottom line by learning how to attract investment-level donors that WANT to fund their work. But the biggest transformation they experience is knowing the exact strategy, path, and team that will propel them to generate the 2-10X dollars their strategic plans require.

Sherry attributes the success of her business to her passion for modeling radical confidence to the future CEOs in her house - her two teenage daughters.

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