Question

Nonprofit organizations depend on two resources to fulfill their missions. One, of course, is money.The other resource - just as vital but perhaps even more scarce - is leadership. Indeed, qualified leadership candidates may be even rarer than six-figure donors.

• A. Today, many nonprofit organizations struggle to attract and retain the talented senior executives they need to convert dollars into social impact.
• B. During the next 10 years, the nonprofit leadership deficit will become impossible to ignore
• C. As one highly respected executive director recently observed, "If I have the choice between spending time with a $100,000 donor or a potential candidate for a senior role, hands down it's the candidate.”
• D. Searches for chief executive, operating, and financial officers often turn up only one to threequalified candidates, compared with four to six for comparable private-sector positions.
• E. Many donors are least bothered where their donations are used

Answer 1

The correct option is C

As one highly respected executive director recently observed, "If I have the choice between spending time with a $100,000 donor or a potential candidate for a senior role, hands down it's the candidate.”

The passage is talking about getting new leadership candidates whereas option (a) is talking about retaining the old ones. Option (a) is hence ruled out. Option (b) is not doing anything to take the issue presented in the paragraph further. Option (d) is irrelevant here. Option (e) talks about donations, whereas we need an answer that talks about the problem of hiring people for leadership roles. Only option (c) is relevant to the question asked. It explains through an example that leadership is more difficult to obtain than donors.