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.

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.

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

Through Nonprofit Kinect, I am trying to do my part to alleviate distress by shining a light on the good and essential work of our nonprofits and encouraging donors to dig deep to help their favorite organizations during this stressful time. I believe that, if each of us does our part, together we can find a silver lining in this dark cloud.

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.

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.

Nine essential tips for how leaders can communicate directly and openly about this challenging time.

Donors and other funders want to know the quickest ways to ensure their dollars have the biggest impact during this challenging time. This article tells how some funders are having a big impact on local nonprofits.

How one local nonprofit is responding to the crisis by looking at the big picture: the entire Santa Barbara nonprofit sector

The dramatic changes wrought by the Coronavirus threaten to devastate our often underfunded but efficiently-run nonprofit organizations.