Nonprofit Interview Questions

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Nonprofit interview questions

1. What are your primary needs for fundraising?
We use fundraising to help cover the program costs and overhead for our organization. A good portion of our budget (23%) is strictly for food purchases. This is to purchase fresh produce, vegetables, and stables for the supplemental groceries we provide. Another 10% of the budget needs is for transportation, which is fuel, registration, maintenance. We also spend approximately 6% on fundraising itself. The other major expense is for payroll and benefits, which is about 42%. We distribute over 13 million pounds of food each year with only 16 employees, so we really make that budget stretch.

2. Do you have emergency funding or a pool of moneys for people to access in an emergency?
We have a reserve account that has approximately 6 months of funds in it in a case of emergency. This is a requirement from Feeding America, which is our main national partner. We do not have cash reserves for the public, only to remain in business.

3. How much of your fundraising is conducted online?
We do most of our fundraising through direct mail and actual events. Online is becoming more and more prevalent, but we probably only get about 2% of our donations online. We are looking to move in that direction when in comes to food drives next holiday season, were a person can do an online food drive instead of the in person kind of old.

4. What methods of online fundraising do you use?
Again, we don't have a lot of online fundraising we actually do. We are move in that direction, but aren't there yet.

5. Has the implementation of online fundraising platforms like Kickstarter and GoFundMe affected your fundraising ability?
We haven't seen any impact because of these. We are looking into creating our platform for online food drives and ...