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Resources to Navigate Uncertainty

Updates on Executive Actions

UNA Newsroom: Latest Updates on Public Policy Impacting Nonprofits
Informational page on executive and legislative actions impacting the nonprofit sector, including resource for Utah nonprofits; updated regularly.

National Council of Nonprofits: Frequently Asked Question on Executive Actions Impacting Nonprofits
Responses to common questions relating to executive actions, federal funding freeze, and current judicial actions impacting nonprofits, updated regularly.

National Council of Nonprofits: Tracking Executive Orders
Chart of the most pertinent executive orders, expected impacts, and related actions; updated regularly.

GrantStation Insights: Tracking Federal Actions Impacting the Nonprofit Sector
This article tracks ongoing developments of the federal actions impacting the nonprofit sector and is updated weekly.

Scenario Planning

Nonprofit Dissolution
Just as your organization worked hard to operate effectively and legally, it is important to dissolve your organization with the same level of compliance.

Nonprofit Scenario Planning (The Bridgespan Group)
Guide to build scenario plans to successfully navigate uncertainty of local, national, or even global events.

Emergency Succession Plan Template (Propel Nonprofits)
Craft an emergency response plan should your Executive Director become ill or temporarily unable to perform their duties.

True Business Planning for Nonprofit (Nonprofit Financial Commons)
(Video) The distinction between business planning, financial planning, and strategic planning; how to present risks to board members; frameworks to analyze your model and explain to stakeholders.

Resiliency Tactics During Financial Crisis: The Nonprofit Resiliency Framework (Wiley)
A research study establishing the Nonprofit Resiliency Framework mapping tactics in five areas: financial, human resources, outreach, program and services, and management and leadership.

Risk Assessment Template (Tangelo Tree Consulting)
Identify risks; rate likelihood of occurrence; rate potential impact; identity top risks for further discussion; plan to mitigate risk.

Funding Changes

Nonprofit Checklist: What to do when your federal grant or contract is terminated
National Council of Nonprofits resource with initial steps that nonprofits should engage in when they learn that their federal grant or contract is terminated by a federal agency.