With nonprofits in virtually every sector reassessing how to deliver their missions during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the role philanthropy will necessarily play in the process, RGI has compiled the following resources, gleaned from peer thinking across the country. 

RESOURCES FOR NONPROFITS

Pandemic Foundation Resources by RGI Corporate and Foundation Specialist Marci Bernard

COVID-19 Care Checklist for Nonprofits from the Maine Association of Nonprofits (MANP). An excellent resource as you seek to support your employees, your organization, your community, and yourself. Also visit their reopening guidebook for Maine nonprofits as well as their own reopening page.

Sustainability to Survivability: 5 Nonprofit Finance Must-Do’s in the Time of COVID. Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) March 19, 2020.  

PUTTING YOUR BOARD TO WORK

What Nonprofit Board Members Should Be Doing Right Now to Address the COVID-19 Situation. BoardSource Blog, March 16, 2020

COMMUNICATING & OUTREACH DURING THE CRISIS

Six Things to Consider Before You Send That Blast Email Update …  (FleishmanHillard) 

Donor Communications in the time of Coronavirus (GG & A) Strategies for communicating with your donors.

In this hour-long webinar titled Capital Campaigns in Uncertain Times, Capital Campaign specialists Andrea Kihlstedt and Amy Eisenstein suggest three immediate areas for action.

Working with donors and volunteers amid crisis and uncertainty (Aspen Leadership Group)

PIVOT APPEALS & THE CASE FOR SUPPORT

5 Steps to Pivot Your Capital Campaign When the World Falls Apart (Capital Campaign Masters) 

Five Corona Virus Fundraising Myths (Capital Campaign Toolkit)

ANNUAL GIVING

COVID-19 and Annual Giving: 7 Keys to Continuity (GG & A)

PLANNED GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

Planned Giving and Pandemics: Strategies for Smaller Shops by GG & A