General Background and Information
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What are the organization’s mission and goals?
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Who is the Executive Director?
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Number of Full Time staff?
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Number of Part Time staff?
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Does the organization have any other offices? Remote workers? If so, where are they located and how many are at that location?
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Number and type of clients/ users/ beneficiaries/ members/ constituents.
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Who are these beneficiaries?
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What is the scale of your constituency / beneficiary group?
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Do you track the number of beneficiaries in any way?
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Is there a way to estimate if this number has gone up, gone down or stayed relatively the same over the years?
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How frequently does the organization communicate with its constituents?
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Do you have non-profit status?
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Organizational Structure / Staffing / Strategies
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What strategic/business plans do you have for the future of the organization?
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Who is responsible for fundraising in your organization?
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How dependent is the organization on the ED?
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How much responsibility are the staff members given by the ED?
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Do they run their own departments?
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How do they communicate to each other and the ED?
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Are there regular staff meetings?
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Does the organization do any training for its staff or any other forms of professional development?
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What is the organization’s capacity to manage interns and volunteers? (1-Poor, 5-Excellent)
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What is the overall satisfaction of other interns and volunteers? (1-Very Unsatisfied - 5-Very Satisfied)
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Is there an organizational chart?
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Is there one staff member for each position or do staff members take on multiple roles?
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Are there multiple staff members doing the same thing?
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Funding / Budget
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What is the overall organizational budget projected for 2009?
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Do you have a fundraising strategy?
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Who are your main donors/funders?
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Are these mostly program-related or are there core donors as well?
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Can you generate a list of current and past donors as complete as possible?
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Do you expect any major changes to your funding?
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What is the division of funding in terms of private foundations vs. government funding vs. individual contributors?
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Do you have any income-generating activities?
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If yes to the prior question, what are they?
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Do you have a membership base (small individual donors that give on a continuous basis, e.g. $50 every year)?
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What proposals do you have in the works or recently submitted?
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External Communications / Info Production and Dissemination / Networking
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Who do you need to be communicating with more?
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Do you publish your own press releases, news bulletins, newsletters, brochures, flyers, email alerts, etc?
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Are the publications in printed or online format?
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Who writes content for the press releases, newsletters, etc.?
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Do you have any contacts with the local press? Have there been articles written about your organization or published in outside sources
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Do you have any other promotional materials – brochures, annual report, etc
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Is your organization a part of a larger network?
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