<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The Wall Street Journal March 30, 2020<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div class="typography--serif-display--2lARvEel WSJTheme-module--card__headline--2DR80vbt WSJTheme-module--headline--3nMw6UuZ" style="font-weight: 700; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; display: flex; line-height: 30px;"><h3 class=" WSJTheme-module--card__headline--label--1fZelKTK" style="margin: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Nonprofits Struggle to Survive Amid Coronavirus Pandemic</span></h3><span class="WSJTheme-module--card__highlight-chevron--rotated--3Ks4FiZI " style="transform: rotate(-180deg);"></span></div></div><div class="WSJTheme-module--card__collapsible-container--open--1OSHkQ98 " style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="typography--sans-serif--MPgreeK9 WSJTheme-module--card__byline--1LAfbWCh" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-bottom: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-pack: justify; justify-content: space-between; line-height: 22px; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><div class="">By <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/ian-lovett" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 195);" class="">Ian Lovett</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/alejandro-lazo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 195);" class="">Alejandro Lazo</a></div></div><div class=""><figure class="WSJTheme-module--block--2S-5BoAc WSJTheme-module--loaded--1cLkZmvA " style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></figure></div><div class=" typography--serif--2RxN8zI7 WSJTheme-module--text--1z7Qxol- WSJTheme-module--block--2S-5BoAc" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><p class="">The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nonprofits-struggle-to-survive-as-revenue-plummets-amid-coronavirus-11585566330" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 195); text-decoration: none;" class="">coronavirus outbreak is ravaging nonprofit organizations’ finances</a>, threatening many of their usual revenue sources as demand for their services skyrockets.</p><p class="">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.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">“It’s devastation,” said Rick Cohen, chief operating officer for the National Council of Nonprofits, which represents thousands of groups across the country.</p></div></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">A core question: What is “resilience”?</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">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<span style="vertical-align: 4px;" class=""> </span><i class="">and </i>Isabelle M. Côté, Science, March 2, 2018). </p><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">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). </span></div><div id="m_-1046162086629656228gmail-AppleMailSignature" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class="m_-1046162086629656228gmail-ApplePlainTextBody"><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">1938 — Resilience<b class="">.</b><span class="m_-1046162086629656228gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>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)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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