Keep Your Nonprofit Moving Forward

Nonprofits are now well into four months of feeling the impact of COVID-19.

The reality is that this virus has caused disruption and uncertainty, and they're no longer considered short-term challenges.

Nonprofit leaders must find a way to keep their organizations moving forward despite the difficulties they face.

Here are four resources with actions that can be taken now that can help you deal with COVID-19. Thank you to each for the advice they have shared.

• From Harvard Business Review: How Leaders Can Chart a Course for Their Organizations and Guide Teams Through Tumultuous Times by J.Peter Scoblic
• This article by David Benjamin and David Komlos in Forbes features an interview with speaker colleague Stephen Shapiro on Why This Could One of the Greatest Times In the History of Innovation.
• Associations Now writer Ernie Smith provides Four Strategies to Help Bolster Your Association’s Resilience Right Now.
• Candid’s (formerly GuideStar) blog has this post by Aleda Gagarin on Four Tips to Help Your Nonprofit Best Navigate the new Normal.

Dealing with COVID-19 requires constant adjusting. Action is needed to get nonprofits to a future time that’s better than the present. Take advantage of these resources and the guidance they have provided.

If you find this helpful, please share with your colleagues.

What is your nonprofit doing differently to get through the pandemic? Hearing what is working for you would certainly help others in our nonprofit community. I welcome your comments below.