Nonprofit Resources for COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised many crucial questions for the nonprofit sector. What does it mean to shut down an entire economy? Will foundations step up and give nonprofits the financial support they will need in these coming years?

Here’s a comprehensive guide of Nonprofit Quarterly resources on the COVID-19 pandemic. From financial sustainability to applying for PPP loans, NPQ is committed to helping our sector find clarity and stability during these unprecedented times.

The Paycheck Protection Program: Information and Guidance on PPP Loans

• The PPP: The Experience of It All and Advice for New Nonprofit Applicants
  

• Responding to COVID-19: Managing a PPP Loan Effectively (Webinar)

• The PPP Forgiveness Application—Information in Moderation

• The Rulemaking on PPP Loans Continues: What You Need to Know Today

Understanding the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and Stimulus Funds

• Cutting Through the Jargon: How the CARES Act Works for Nonprofits
  

• $484B More in Stimulus Funds Headed for Release: What’s Included, What’s Not
  

Financial Management Advice for Nonprofits

• It’s Different This Time: Handling Nonprofit Staff Cuts under COVID-19
  

• How Nonprofits Can Utilize the New Federal Laws Dealing with COVID-19

• Sustainability to Survivability: 5 Nonprofit Finance Must-Do’s in the Time of COVID

• Voices from the Field: Tangible, Timely Tactics for Nonprofits during Crises
  

• Human Resources: Balancing Urgency & Equity during COVID-19

• Financial Leadership: Making Good Decisions in Unprecedented Times

Calls for Nonprofit Funding During COVID-19

Federal:

• An Appeal to Congress to Include Nonprofits in Packages for Relief and Stimulus

• Voices from the Field: Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus

Philanthropy/Foundations:

• Heads Up! Says Vu Le: Foundations, Nonprofits, and Our Response to COVID-19

• A Weather Report from Vu Le and a Practical Suggestion for Philanthropy

• Doubling Payout: A Foundation Makes the Right Choice

• COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future

• COVID-19 Crisis “Requires Us All to Be Bolder” (Tiny Spark Podcast)

• Why Grantmakers Need to Break Their Restriction Habit—Permanently

• Will Donor-Advised Funds Meet Their “Rainy Day” Promise?

Calls for Leadership

• Will Nonprofits Be Protected during the Shutdown? Stories from 3 State Leaders
  

• Nonprofits and Funders: Coronavirus Requires Immediate State Advocacy
  

• Facing “Existential Threat,” Nonprofit Leaders Look to Cope and Make Change
  

• Philanthropy’s Response to COVID-19: 3 Foundation Leaders Discuss Priorities
  

Calls for Advocacy

• Big New Funder Initiatives Support Policy Advocacy and Low-Income Workers
  

• No Excuses: The 2020 Advocacy Requirements for Nonprofit Organizations
  

• Honoring the Moment: Leveraging Policy Openings Created by COVID-19

 

COVID-19 and Essential Workers

• Nonprofits Who Can’t Cancel: The Ones that Serve Those at Greater Risk of COVID-19

• With Millions of Low-Wage Workers at Risk, It’s Mobilization Time!

• Essential but Disposable: Frontline, Online, and on Strike

• Farmworkers Are Declared Essential but Treated as Disposable

• Masks, Mutual Aid, and Our Broken Supply Chains: A North Carolina Story

• Not Safe at Home: How a Meat-Packing Plant Became a Top COVID-19 Hotspot

• “I Don’t Feel Like A Hero”—Voices from the COVID-19 Front Lines

• The Jornaleros: Voices of Day Laborers Facing COVID-19

 

Immigration

• Border Patrol Ignores Asylum Laws, Sends Migrants Back to Mexico

• Undocumented Migrants Increasingly Die Quietly at Home

• California Becomes First State to Provide Relief to Undocumented Immigrants

• Advocates Call for Immigrant Detainees’ Release as COVID-19 Cases Climb

 

COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration

• Coronavirus Causes Prisoner Releases

• Early Release Initiatives Should Be a Priority as Curve Continues its Climb

• Pandemic Lays Bare Inhumanity of Mass Incarceration

• Hotspots: Prisons and Slaughterhouses Hit Rural Communities Hard

• COVID-19 and Criminal (In)Justice: The Case to End Mass Incarceration Now

• What Kind of Freedom Is This? From Prison to a COVID-Transformed World
  

 

Education and Colleges

• COVID-19’s Closing of College Campuses: A Look Through the Equity Lens

• Students Form Mutual Aid Networks to Meet Needs in Pandemic Crisis

• Federal Student Loans Are Automatically in Forbearance!

 

COVID-19 and the Impact on the Artist Community

• Arts Nonprofits and Artists Brace for a Rough Ride through COVID-19

• Coping, Creating, & Connecting: Self-Expression during COVID-19

• Grantmakers Support Artists and Writers Knocked Sideways by COVID-19

• Telling the Real Story of the 2020 Pandemic and Its Effects: It’s Up to You

• The Case for a Coherent National Recovery Strategy

 

Economic Development and the Future of Our Economy

• Don’t Just Flatten the Curve, Break the Pattern!

• This Is Not a Test: Philanthropy and Nonprofits in the 2020 Economic Shutdown

• Philanthropy, Meet Our Matrix Moment: Which Pill Will You Choose?

• One Option for a Joyful, Creative National Rebirth: Revisiting the WPA

• Are We Ready Yet? The Need for a New National Direction
  

 

Housing and Evictions

• The Rent Strike Revived: What Are People Doing as Cash Runs Scarce?

• Rent Strikes Grow across the US

 

Social Change

• Responding to COVID-19: A Bold Conversation (Webinar)

• Saying “No” to Social Distance: Calling Civil Society to Center Stage

• What COVID Is Teaching Us about Social Change

 

Racial Equity

• Former CDC Head Pushes for Equity in Pandemic Policies (Tiny Spark Podcast)

• A Moment of Choice: Racial Equity, CDFIs, and PPP Lending

• Never Distant: Addressing the Pandemic in Indian Country

• The South Has Something to Say: COVID-19 and Our Chance for Transformation

• Will Philanthropy Stand Up for Black America?

 

Massive Unemployment

• Preserving Communities and Our Jobs: A Path to Ending Mass Unemployment

• Don’t Let Senseless Unemployment Policies Sink Nonprofits—Act Now!

• Fed Chair: 40% of Those Making Less Than $40K Lost Their Jobs in March