Organizations can’t just turn the lights back on and hand out masks at the door to the returning workforce. Before a vaccine is available, the office experience won’t remain as it was before the pandemic.

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.

Think of scenario planning as imagining numerous stories and how they might unfold rather than what might be the best or worst-case scenario.

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.

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.

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.