Seventy-four percent of nonprofits responding to a recent survey conducted by CAF America (https://www.cafamerica.org/covid19report/) said they had “adapted programming to the digital realm” when faced with COVID-19 challenges. Sixty-three percent said they had done so successfully. There’s  no question that nonprofits across the country have responded admirably to the obstacles the past year placed in their paths. But to be candid, from what I’ve seen in my capacity-building work, the reality is that the nonprofit sector needs to hold itself to a higher standard of success if it’s going to keep pace with demand and continue serving communities.

The year 2020 was the most challenging in the history of the modern world, perhaps even more than the great depression. It was the year that many changes were brought into our lives. Many pandemic-related measures were implemented to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations to curb the spread of the virus and mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic. The sweeping changes did not leave behind the nonprofits’ aid programs. Although many people have written about the non-pandemic-related changes, many pandemic-related changes will affect charities in 2021. Here are some of these changes. 

It is now a year since the pandemic began, and many things have changed. Organizations in different industries have been forced to change how they do things, and their plans have been altered significantly. For the nonprofits, fundraising events and how they are organized have been altered, and most of them are now hosting their fundraising remotely. Here are some tips that you should consider when planning your next fundraising event in 2021.

One thing that I have to deal with as a Black man on a board or in an executive environment is the exhausting exercise of navigating the current of norms and behaviors of the group. Even when boards recruit a “diverse” candidate who looks and thinks differently than the group, it is exhausting for that individual to speak from another mindset. Majority-culture boards tend to isolate the new thoughts of the diverse board member and label them, which is why so many people from diverse backgrounds may choose not to serve on these boards.