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When funding may appear to be more restricted, nonprofits that embrace a corporate mindset become more poised for sustainability. Any nonprofit, of any size, can re-evaluate their strategy to meet the demands of the current economy, while renewing hope and energy toward their mission.
An introduction to the acquisition and management of public funding. If you are a non-profit organization or a business and want to be successful with the acquisition of public funding, this is for you. If you have acquired public funding and want to manage it more effectively, this is a good starting point. If you have tried unsuccessfully to acquire public funding, this will ensure your success.
For our NGOs and International Organizations to not only survive but thrive, we need to change the way we are funded and improve the way we work. We need to manage our organizations better, be more agile, and need to diversify funding to make them more robust.
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What does raising capital mean for me and for my business?
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How much should I raise?
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How can I best prepare to raise my first outside capital?
How do I figure out and understand who the right investors are for my company?
How can I best align running my company and running a fundraising round?
What are the resources out there that can help me fundraise?
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Understand what raising outside capital means for you and your business
Have a clear understanding of how to create a fundraising strategy that makes sense for you and for your company
Learn about resources to help you fundraise
Get checklists and templates for planning and executing your raise
Get access to the slides & recording
Please note that this is a woman-only event. Use of “women” & “female” is inclusive of and welcomes trans women, nonbinary folks, and anyone who identifies with womxnhood in any way that is significant to them.
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BETTER FUNDING MODELS THROUGH & BEYOND THE COVID-19 CRISISMzN International
Joint MzN and CONCORD Seminar:
Funding is not the No.1 priority.
Delivering your mandate is!
Funding should be mandate driven – not the other way around!
Funds-flow dictate de-facto strategy.
We therefore need to strategise your funds flow!
This is difficult at any time, but especially
during this crisis. But we can use crises to get
funding right in the “NEW NORMAL”!
Grants are always an in demand commodity. Everyone loves the idea of being able to receive funds to further a mission or program without having to repay those funds. This eagerness is often taken advantage of by individuals and companies who range from slightly unethical to those who are blatantly dishonest and deceitful.
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The pressures of running a business while looking for funding causes many founders to underestimate the importance of creating a clear fundraising strategy. You don’t want to waste your time seeking capital without a clear timeline and plan. In this workshop, the experienced investors and entrepreneurs will guide you on how to best prepare, plan and execute a strategy that’s best suited to your business.
This workshop will also address the specifics of what it means to raise capital as a female founder and provide practical tips, checklists, templates and interactive exercises so you can start applying these to your company and Own Your Raise.
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What does raising capital mean for me and for my business?
Is my company ready to raise?
How much should I raise?
What’s the process and timeline of raising from angels/VCs?
How can I best prepare to raise my first outside capital?
How do I figure out and understand who the right investors are for my company?
How can I best align running my company and running a fundraising round?
What are the resources out there that can help me fundraise?
By attending this workshop, you will:
Understand what raising outside capital means for you and your business
Have a clear understanding of how to create a fundraising strategy that makes sense for you and for your company
Learn about resources to help you fundraise
Get checklists and templates for planning and executing your raise
Get access to the slides & recording
Please note that this is a woman-only event. Use of “women” & “female” is inclusive of and welcomes trans women, nonbinary folks, and anyone who identifies with womxnhood in any way that is significant to them.
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BETTER FUNDING MODELS THROUGH & BEYOND THE COVID-19 CRISISMzN International
Joint MzN and CONCORD Seminar:
Funding is not the No.1 priority.
Delivering your mandate is!
Funding should be mandate driven – not the other way around!
Funds-flow dictate de-facto strategy.
We therefore need to strategise your funds flow!
This is difficult at any time, but especially
during this crisis. But we can use crises to get
funding right in the “NEW NORMAL”!
Grants are always an in demand commodity. Everyone loves the idea of being able to receive funds to further a mission or program without having to repay those funds. This eagerness is often taken advantage of by individuals and companies who range from slightly unethical to those who are blatantly dishonest and deceitful.
What do I mean by changing New Zealand? How about ending poverty; which also requires transforming our
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Leading companies such as Nike, Toyota, and Siemens are prioritizing sustainable innovation in their business models, setting an example for others to follow. In this Sustainability training presentation, you will learn key concepts, principles, and practices of sustainability applicable across industries. This training aims to create awareness and educate employees, senior executives, consultants, and other key stakeholders, including investors, policymakers, and supply chain partners, on the importance and implementation of sustainability.
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The BIG SECRET ABOUT FUNDRAISING White Paper _ Sherry Quam Taylor.pdf
1. THE BIG
FUND-
RAISING
SECRET
A W H I T E PA P E R T O C H A N G E YO U R F U N D I N G M O D E L & M I N D S E T
Test Your Financing Model
PAGE 8
Howtraditional nonprofit fundraising
BLOCKS your overall growth
& KEEPS you from reaching
your revenue goals everyyear
2. THE BIG FUNDRAISING SECRET | QuamTaylor.com 2
FUNDING/VISION DISCONNECT
All over America, high-performing nonprofit
CEOs are revolutionizing programs, plucking
organizations back from the brink of deficit
and disaster, hiring seasoned fundraising staff,
and assembling boards of notable caliber.
But they still struggle to raise the kind
of money their big visions require.
Often trapped in the sector’s old systems,
their teams put too much time and energy
into the wrong activities, struggling to get
by on less while doing more and more.
There is a fundamental shift you
can make: remove what’s blocking
overall growth by creating a real
financing model for your nonprofit,
one that drives revenue generation
and can scale to the size of the impact
you want to make.
IRS Business Master Files, Revenue Transaction Files, and Form
990/990-EZ/990-N returns processed for fiscal years ending circa
2016 (released June 2018), DataLake Nonprofit Research.
Thereare1.29Mnonprofit
organizationsintheUnitedStates
excludingprivatefoundations.
ofnonprofitshavebudgets
oflessthan$5millionannually
97%
3. THE BIG FUNDRAISING SECRET | QuamTaylor.com 3
For decades, the nonprofit industry has been held to unrealistic
expectations and outdated metrics that keep organizations from growing.
The most insidious? “Nonprofits should be able to do more on less.”
Not only are nonprofits supposed to change the world or solve huge
crises, they’re expected to do it on shoestring budgets.
If you came into the nonprofit sector from a corporate background, this
mindset probably didn’t make sense to you. You knew you had to spend
money to make money. But, faced with the prevailing wisdom that
funders, charity-ranking websites, and the general public all “hate
overhead,” perhaps you concluded that things were just different
in the nonprofit sector.
While nonprofits are certainly different from for-profit enterprises in many
ways, the fundamental truths of how financing works remains the same—
you can’t do more with less. Life-changing missions require a significant
investment in resources, tools, and people.
All those “truths” about overhead? When you have a real financing model
that assists you in cultivating relationships with investment-level donors,
you find they don’t hold true at all. When your donors understand what
your organization needs to change the world in ways they care about,
they consequently understand why you need to invest in your people
and processes, as well as programs.
THE OVERHEAD MYTH
Your vision is possible.
You can get your organization there, fully funded for programming
every year, while investing in overhead and building a reserve that
takes you into the future. It doesn’t take years and years of strategic
planning, or major corporate sponsorship, or running a skeleton
crew of staff to make this happen. What does it take?
You must look at the problem from a different angle.
What if your fundraising problems aren’t caused by your board, or
your short-staffed development team, or not knowing how to find large
donors? What if, instead, these problems are caused by your overarching
approach to funding your organization each year?
If the problem is the whole funding model, rearranging the individual
pieces will never work.
You need to change the model.
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measureofacharity’s
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manycharities
shouldspendmore
onoverhead.
Charity Navigator, Better
Business Bureau, Wise Giving
Alliance, Guidestar
4. THE BIG FUNDRAISING SECRET | QuamTaylor.com 4
Starting to wonder if your nonprofit funding model is broken? With the
pressure to under-invest in your organization’s growth from every angle,
it’s no wonder most struggle to reach their annual budget each year. The
resources and staff aren’t there to propel the growth. Clearly, something
is wrong here.
The Model Is the Problem
Over the past decade, I’ve studied the funding practices, processes, and
plans of hundreds of organizations I’ve worked with. The vast majority
of the time, the model is the problem. If you’re not going out of your way
to offend donors or trying to pursue an unworthy mission, yet you are
still having trouble securing the annual revenue you need to accomplish
what’s in your strategic plan, it’s very likely the problem rests in your
annual model and the fundraising activities that support it.
Over Reliance on One Source of Funding
For years, I’ve seen organizations over-rely on unpredictable and inadequate
funding sources and then crash when that funding disappears. Instead of
learning how to cultivate a pool of committed, investment-level individual
donors, nonprofits would depend on restrictive government contracts,
a few generous foundations, an annual event, or earned revenue. In this
situation, organizations feel secure, but are actually very vulnerable.
While I’ve been observing the limitations of funding an organization this
way for years now, it became quite obvious in 2020, when the COVID-19
pandemic brought so many fundraising activities to a halt. The crisis
brought the traditional model’s inadequacies to the forefront:
Many nonprofits are too dependent on too much of one thing.
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MODEL
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Thesefundsareneverenough
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5. THE BIG FUNDRAISING SECRET | QuamTaylor.com 5
IS YOUR ORGANIZATION TOO RELIANT
ON ONE OF THESE COMMON CULPRITS?
The high-performing nonprofit CEOs I talk
to are killing it when it comes to running their
organization’s programs and long-term vision. The
problem is they’re stuck because they simply don’t
have the unrestricted revenue they need to flexibly
invest in their infrastructure. It’s frustrating
because the amount raised every year is far from
the vision they have for their organization’s impact.
But, I see people change this every day.
Onerous to apply for and receive, never
solve the full problem, and are incredibly
restrictive, potentially creating cash flow
problems.
Time intensive application and reporting
structure, subject to sudden shifts in
funding priorities and the foundation’s
portfolio as a whole.
Constant tail-chasing, penny-pinching,
and scrambling. What happens in a year
when your mission is still worthy of being
supported, but programs are halted?
The time and energy put into making
an event successful typically outweighs
the financial reward. Major donors and
corporate sponsors rarely give their best
gift at an event, so you’re leaving money
on the table after all that work.
Government
Contracts
Foundations
& Grants
Earned
Revenue
Event
Revenue
SHERRY QUAM TAYLOR, CEOofQuamTaylor
6. THE BIG FUNDRAISING SECRET | QuamTaylor.com 6
It’s normal to reflect on what you raised last year and how hard you
worked even to get that, and conclude that there’s some “trick” you haven’t
learned or some secret, missing puzzle piece. If only you had the right
board members, the right website or campaign, the right kind of media
attention, or the right words on the application. Then you’d crack the
code and get the unrestricted funding and major-gifts you need to grow.
While boards, campaigns, press, and grants are all important parts of
fundraising, they’ll never fully fund your organization. When development
teams put all their attention on these transactional elements,
they run out of time for the activities that truly generate the
revenue they need.
TraditionalFUNDRAISINGModels
thatrelyontransactions,limitgrowth,
andneversecuretheunrestricted
cashyouneedtogrow.
Andtransitiontoa:
RealFINANCINGModel
thatpropelsthegrowthofyourorganization,
securesfundingforoverhead,andattracts
investment-levelgiftsfromindividuals.
ButTHE BIG FUNDRAISING SECRETisthatyouhavetobreakfreefrom:
TRE MOORE, NationalDirectorofIREF
[The $203,000 donation we received this weekend] ensures IREF will be fully
funded in 2020. This fiscal year’s end is the first time in four years that we
will end with a surplus rather than a deficit.
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WHAT MOST PEOPLE THINK . . .
Only7%ofalldonation
revenuecomesfrom
lowdollardonors
Fundraising Report Card
Greg Warner of Market Smart
7%
Meanwhile,70%ofnonprofit
revenue(onaverage)comes
fromjust.7%ofthedonorbase.
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Why does this approach work so well?
⦁ It exposes what’s really blocking your overall revenue
growth and keeping you from fully financing your
mission every year.
⦁ It puts you on the path to steady, predictable revenue
so you can actually complete the initiatives in your
strategic plan.
⦁ It represents the real financial need of your
organization. Your financial need includes a strong reserve
fund and the unrestricted revenue you need for overhead.
This attracts investment-level donors and creates a more
authentic relationship with your nonprofit.
⦁ It turns your team and board into high-revenue
generators. Development teams rarely hit their goal every
year when they’re not raising to the right number in the first
place. This approach gives them a step-by-step action plan
that aligns hours with dollars, dictating which activities they
should STOP doing and which they should START spending
more time on for maximum ROI.
MOLLY RANEY
ExecutiveDirectorof
HoustonWelcomes
Refugees
Within just a
few months of
implementing [Sherry’s]
methods, our organization
saw an increase in
engagement and giving
with top donors. The
following year, we were
fully funded at month
six of the fiscal year!
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CREATING A
HIGH REVENUE
GENERATING
ORGANIZATION
&TEAM WITH
YOUR FINANCING
MODEL
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First, you must pivot your organization, staff, and strategy from fragmented fundraising
to a true, financing plan that attracts investment-level donors.
Having all the money you need to finance your strategic plan starts with identifying what’s blocking your
overall revenue growth. Attracting larger, unrestricted gifts from individuals starts with getting real about
what your organization truly needs to achieve your vision.
Do you use your budget as a plan to propel your organization’s growth every year □ YES □ NO
and not allow it to act as limiting handcuffs?
Is your revenue mostly unrestricted, allowing you the flexibility to invest in growth □ YES □ NO
and overhead as you see fit?
Do you plan for and reach a balanced budget every year AND raise enough to □ YES □ NO
build your reserve fund?
Second, you must align your development staff’s time with the Financing Plan to achieve
a high-ROI model.
Your fundraisers must think and act like a high-performing sales team. Stop spending too much time
on things that don’t deliver. Every hour is valuable, so devote most of your time to the activities that offer
the highest ROI.
Does your Fundraising Plan confidently define the steps to reach or exceed your □ YES □ NO
organization’s true financial need and create a balanced budget?
Does your team have a clear and direct plan to secure 50%–75% of your annual □ YES □ NO
revenue from 30 individual donors?
Is your team tracking their revenue generating activities with their time, yielding □ YES □ NO
high-ROI results?
Then, you must learn how to create donor experiences that attract and lead donors
to a YES every year.
The fundraising that leads to major gifts is about building long-term, mutual relationships with donors.
You do that by leading them into a deep understanding of what you need while serving their specific
mission for giving.
Do your donors truly understand what you do (your programs) and what size □ YES □ NO
gift you need them to make?
Are you confident your staff is not leaving money on the table? Are they guiding □ YES □ NO
top level donors through investment-level conversations and solicitations
on a regular basis?
Are you certain your donors are all giving their best gift to you each year? □ YES □ NO
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TEST YOUR FINANCING MODEL
This is what I want for you.
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I show nonprofit CEOs and boards what’s blocking their overall revenue growth so they can break free from
the limitations of traditional fundraising activities to fulfill their big vision.
The organizations and fundraising departments I coach transform into high revenue generating teams
who confidently serve and lead donors to double and triple their donation sizes. My clients regularly add
7-figures of charitable revenue to their bottom line as a result implementing my 12-month program.
We’llfixthefundraisingproblematthe
rootandcreateatruefinancingmodel
foryourorganization.
Breakfreefromtheactivitiesthatlimitgrowthand
neversecuretheunrestrictedcashneededtogrow.
I’lltrainyouradvancementteam
andboardonhigh-ROIfundraising.
Learnwhattostopdoingsotheycan
spendtimeonwhatattractsandsecures
investment-leveldonors.
You’llknowhowtoleaddonorstogive
theirbestgift,everyyear.
Createannualdonorexperiencesthatleadto
asustainablemodelandsecurethefundingyou
needtoachievethedreamsinyourstrategicplan.
The step-by-step path we’ll take to reach your goals:
HERE’S HOW
MYPROGRAM
WORKS
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When I took the reins of a historic, yet
struggling, organization a few years ago,
I leaned on my experience of starting, operating, and
reinvigorating small businesses. I successfully shored
up the program model and operations and brought
the organization into a positive cash balance, but
I still needed to generate more unrestricted funding
to fund our aggressive growth plans. The challenge
was that I’d never designed a major-gifts program
or advancement department in my previous career.
Sherry’s approach was different from other voices
in the sector. She was the objective business partner
I needed to help me create an overall funding model
and long-term staffing plan, and we’re already
seeing the results!
JONATHAN T. SWAIN
CEOofLINKUnlimitedScholars
LINKUnlimited.org
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