Santa Barbara Nonprofits
Nonprofits continue to deliver vital services while adapting to COVID challenges, shifting landscape
Nonprofits under these extremely trying circumstances are quickly adapting their service systems to fit the reality of social isolation and physical distancing and have stretched to meet the increased need they face.
Use Scenario Planning to Create your Nonprofit’s New Normal
Think of scenario planning as imagining numerous stories and how they might unfold rather than what might be the best or worst-case scenario.
Three Steps for Creating your Nonprofit’s New Normal during COVID’s Relentless Impact
This pandemic calls us to re-evaluate every aspect of our mission, our operations, and our delivery systems. This momentous shift calls for us to intentionally create the most effective new normal for our organization.
Our Healthcare Providers, First Responders, Essential Personnel’s Sacrifice Humbles Us All during the COVID Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis is calling healthcare and mental healthcare providers, first responders, and other essential personnel to serve all of us with great sacrifice to themselves.
CALM Finds New Ways to Deliver their Critical Services in Response to COVID-19 Challenges
Walczak is a powerful force in Santa Barbara County and throughout the nonprofit sector. She offers excellent observations about the current pandemic challenges and valuable advice for how parents, leaders, teachers, and all of us can deal with these struggles.
Local Mental Health Nonprofits Address COVID-19 Related Stress, Anxiety
Since May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, this article will highlight some of the ways our extraordinary local nonprofits have pivoted their service model to adapt to the current crisis.
Women's Fund of Santa Barbara presents $685,000 to Local Nonprofits
At its 16th annual Celebration of Grants held on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara awarded grants totaling $685,000 to nine local nonprofit agencies
Scenario Planning: Drive Strategic Action And Real ROI
If your nonprofit is struggling to respond to change—in denial about or paralyzed by change, or both—scenario planning can help and can drive real-world, bottom-line results.
How Some Are Coping and Adapting to Survive, Continue to Deliver Services Amid Coronavirus
Our nonprofits are resilient and adaptable, in the face of the destructive impact of COVID-19 because they are so clearly focused on their mission.
9 actionable ways to lead with transparency in uncertain times
Nine essential tips for how leaders can communicate directly and openly about this challenging time.