Please send completed applications to vandyscno@gmail.com along with a copy of your resume by 11:59 pm on Friday, January 25th.

If you do not have a resume, please attach a list of your campus involvement as well as expected time commitment. We look forward to reading your application! Name: Phone Number: Email: Class Year: Expected Graduation Date: Major(s), minor(s): Do you have access to a car? (please note this will have no bearing on acceptance decision)

Please answer the following questions to the best of your abilities. Please try to keep answers concise (no more than about 250 words each). Please feel free to attach additional pages if necessary. 1. If you were a member of SCNO last semester, what was the most meaningful thing you learned from the experience? If you are new to SCNO this semester, what are you hoping to gain from the experience?

2. SCNO requires members to work in student teams. What qualities do you possess that would enhance your ability to work in a team setting?

3. Please consider the following example of a consulting project and answer the questions below.

Nonprofit X is a small, nonprofit based in Nashville that is committed to improving childhood literacy among elementary school students. They achieve this through raising money to increase the number of age-appropriate books in low-performing elementary schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools. Nonprofit X is hoping to raise $10,000 in order to place books in an additional 200 classrooms. Your team is asked to develop an effective marketing and fundraising strategy to help the organization reach its goal of $10,000.

3.a. What three questions would be most important to ask your client in the initial meeting?

3.b. What factors would you consider in determining the effectiveness of a potential solution (i.e. how would you know that your fundraising/marketing strategy for your client was successful)?

4. What type of project would you be most interested in working on? Please rank these in order of interest (1-most interested, 4-least interested)? ______ Fundraising ______ Marketing ______ Strategy/Operations ______ Outreach

We are very excited that ten prominent Nashville nonprofit organizations have provisionally committed to

working with us this semester. If you are accepted, we will do our best to partner you with an organization or a problem area that you are interested in working with. Please rank our organizations below in order of preference (1-most interested, 10-least interested). Please check out the websites of each for more information about the organizations mission: _____ American Red Cross, Nashville Chapter (http://www.redcross.org/tn/nashville) _____ Martha OBryan Center (http://www.marthaobryan.org/) _____ Nashville Mobile Market (http://www.nashvillemobilemarket.org) _____ Pencil Foundation (http://www.pencilfoundation.org) _____ Renewal House (http://www.renewalhouse.org) _____ Shady Tree Clinic (https://shadetreeclinic.org/) _____ Social Enterprise Alliance (http://nashvillesocialenterprise.org/) _____ Teach Twice (http://teachtwice.org/) _____ Youth Encouragement Services (http://youthencouragement.org)

____ Urban League of Middle Tennessee (http://www.ulmt.org/)

Please answer the following question only if you are interested in being a team leader. Being a team leader requires a significant time commitment. Team leaders will be responsible for overseeing individual contributions and they will serve as the primary contact person for your partner organization. Additionally, all team leaders will be responsible for meeting with our Vice President of Internal Operations, Diana Whitmore, on a regular basis to report on team progress. We will interview all potential team leads during the week of January 28th. What experience do you have being the leader of a team or group? What characteristics do you possess that would make you a strong team leader?