Recent studies by both the Nonprofit Finance Fund and the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside found that COVID-19 is expected to leave deep and lasting impacts on nonprofit organizations around the nation. 

According to the study conducted by the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside in early April, many organizations are in a “triply challenging position, navigating increased demand for the services they provide and the addition of new services, while at the same time facing the prospect of declines in revenues from charity events and managing many staff now working from home.”

The report also noted that many nonprofits have severely cut back staffing and the services they provide. One survey respondent anticipated “a reduction in funding by as much at 75% before June 2020, as funding from schools and government will be cut.”

But, despite the serious financial challenges facing loca nonprofit leaders, their resolve to continue responding to clients’ needs during this time has not wavered.  After all, it is in the DNA of nonprofits to step up when others step back. The need to expand services is not foreign to nonprofits during times when demands increase and revenues decrease.

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