Swot Weaknesses

S.W.O.T. - Weaknesses
The six weaknesses identified by CFVC were their small budget, lack of staff, inconsistent intern participation, lack of name recognition, consistency of loyalty, and misunderstanding of domain in the community.
Just like most other non-profit organizations, financial resources are a concern for the CFVC. The center listed the size of their budget as a weakness. They feel that it limits them and their impact.
Stemming from the lack of financial resources, the lack of staff was also identified as a weakness. The CFVC has a physical office, but they have no full-time staff to run the office. Annie is the only person who is available consistently to contact and to run daily operations.
The center works with college students to employ them as interns. While they have interest in this program and receive new intern applications each semester, they have an issue with consistent participation.
One of the most prominent weaknesses and one that was discussed the furthest was the lack of name recognition for the CFVC. Everyone knows Big Buddy, and everyone knows Annie Anthony, but very few people know the Cape Fear Volunteer Center, and even fewer know that

With the economic downturn the U.S. economy has experienced over the greater part of the last decade, small nonprofit organizations such as Cape Fear Volunteer Center have also fallen on hard economic times. Running on a budget of less than $100,000 a year the lack of financial resources has put a strain on the organization as a whole. Employees have been laid off, volunteers are heavily relied upon for program management, and there are questions regarding organizational structure. All of the other strategic issues that will be noted in this portion ultimately boil down to one very straight forward idea, there is simply not enough money to maintain functionality of the organization