[MCN] Nonprofits Struggle to Survive Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

[Lance Olsen]

The Wall Street Journal March 30, 2020

Nonprofits Struggle to Survive Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
By Ian Lovett <https://www.wsj.com/news/author/ian-lovett> and Alejandro Lazo <https://www.wsj.com/news/author/alejandro-lazo>
The coronavirus outbreak is ravaging nonprofit organizations’ finances <https://www.wsj.com/articles/nonprofits-struggle-to-survive-as-revenue-plummets-amid-coronavirus-11585566330>, threatening many of their usual revenue sources as demand for their services skyrockets.

Fundraisers are being postponed or canceled. Donations have fallen as much as 75%. Businesses and events that nonprofits operate to earn money, ranging from opera performances to autism therapy centers, have been shuttered. Layoffs have already begun.

“It’s devastation,” said Rick Cohen, chief operating officer for the National Council of Nonprofits, which represents thousands of groups across the country.
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A core question: What is “resilience”?

2018 — “Resilience is a popular narrative for conservation and provides an opportunity to communicate optimism that ecosystems can recover and rebound from disturbances.” (Emily S. Darling and Isabelle M. Côté, Science, March 2, 2018). 

2014 — “Emerging from a wide range of disciplines, resilience in policy-making has often been based on the ability of systems to bounce back to normality, drawing on engineering concepts. This implies the return of the functions of an individual, household, community or ecosystem to previous conditions, with as little damage and disruption as possible following shocks and stresses”  (Tanner et al, Nature Climate Change,  December 18, 2014). 

1938 — Resilience. 1- The act or power of springing back to a former position or shape. 2. The quantity of work given back by a body that is compressed to a certain limit and then allowed to recover itself, as a spring under pressure suddenly relaxed.”  (Funk & Wagnall’s New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, vol.2, M-Z 1938)




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