Episode Details

Most nonprofits think to raise more you have to do more. “We need to raise 25% next year so we need to do another fundraiser.” Except that has a quick ceiling AKA an exhaustion ceiling, and you’re limited by how many events you can do, how many people you can get there, and it only scales by adding hours into your work day. How do you raise more money without adding hours into your work week? What if your workweek is maxed out?

I’ve helped 652 nonprofits raise $101M - teams of 1 or 2 - and I use a simple strategy that raises $300K more without adding more hours of work every week.

Here’s what I cover in this episode:

• What obstacles are in the way of our warmest, biggest opportunities
• How my client raised a $10k gift from a donor who had only ever given $100 in one conversation
• How my director development client got 70 new donors in 7 months from board intros (the same board made only 5 intros the year before)
• What I did to help my board chair raise $225,000 from their network in 12 months
• Why you can’t see the six-figures uncaptured in your current community of supporters
• Why the way you’re doing events isn’t raising more money
• The one thing you can change to raise more from the same donors
• The strategy that raises bigger gifts in 40 minutes without more time-consuming, heavy special events

What opportunities might you be overlooking because you’re just too close to it?

It’s not that you’re bad at this, or that you aren’t working hard enough. Good grief, you’re THE HARDEST WORKING PERSON. It’s a different roadmap entirely.

The roadmap you’ve been using is taking you where you’ve already been. If you want to get somewhere new, you need a new route. And you need a guide who’s been there before. Stop trying to go it alone. We all have blind spots. The biggest difference between nonprofits that stay flat and the ones that grow a new roadmap, the skills to walk the path and a guide who can show you the way.

Want 15 leads in 5 minutes? DM me "Breakfast burrito" on LinkedIn and I'll send you a pdf and 6-minute training to help you generate 15 leads for your nonprofit in minutes. It's totally free. All you need is an email to sign up. DM me "Breakfast burrito" - I'm from Texas, what can I say? - to get your pdf and mini training.

If you’re an ED or DD of a $1M+ making a difference in your community and you’re ready to make bigger, bolder asks, then DM me “CL” on LinkedIn and I’ll share details.