Final Post: Working on the Draft

The past few days of working on my SCORE project have been slow but productive. I am still waiting for the answers to the questions that I sent via email to Deborah Elisason, my first interview source. Hopefully she will send them later today or tomorrow, though today would be more preferable as it would give me more ample time to further rephrase my final draft. I sent her about nine questions related to nonprofit work, which are the following:

1. Why are nonprofits exempt from taxation?

2. Describe your position in SeARTS.

3. What do you believe are the qualifications for working in a nonprofit?

4. What are some recent problems that nonprofits in general have been facing?

5. What initially attracted you to joining a nonprofit?

6. What do you believe should be the general mission of all nonprofit organizations, regardless of their individual themes?

7. What are the greatest strengths of nonprofits? Weaknesses?

8. Describe the benefits that nonprofits bring to there surrounding community?  

9. What makes a nonprofit different from a regular business or corporation?

Yesterday, I was able to find a second interview source. Originally I had been planning to interview my dad, James Caviston, who is the president of SeARTS. But yesterday, because of an email sent by my dad, I called up Bob Hastings, executive director of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce. In our conversation over the phone, I told him that I would like to interview him as a source for my paper. He agreed to my proposition. I told him that I would send him questions via email to him, and that he would send his answers back no later than this Sunday. The questions I asked him were almost the same as the ones I sent Deborah Eliason, but included more about the CACC, which is a larger and more wide-ranging group than SeARTS. Here are the questions that I sent to Bob Hastings:

1. What is the mission of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce?

2. How does the CACC promote business activity and promote economic development?

3. What are the most important economic drivers in Cape Ann? What areas of business activity are growing and what ones are dwindling? 

4. What are the greatest challenges faced by the CACC in the course of its work?

5. What is the best way for a nonprofit to use the internet?

6. What do you believe are the most effective ways of advertising for a nonprofit?

7. What are the best qualifications for working in a nonprofit?

8. What initially attracted you to working in a nonprofit?

9. What are the benefits that nonprofits bring to the community?

10. How large a role does membership play in CACC's work?