Pause But Not Panic: Exploring COVID-19 as a Critical Incident for Nonprofit Workers

Critical incidents often have significant impacts on workers, sometimes causing disruptions to career pathways and a re-evaluation of past career decisions. This article seeks to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nonprofit workers and their commitment to the sector using a critical incidents lens. In-depth interviews with nonprofit workers provided insights on the pandemic's impact on workers' personal and professional lives and how they made sense of these. Changes to work including flexibility and work-from-home options were often viewed positively, yet workers expressed a loss of connection with their colleagues, mental health and well-being challenges, as well as challenges to adapt to new ways of working. In making sense of these changes, commitment to the sector was mostly sustained;however, respondents also noted a shift in priorities and expressed a desire for better balance between their personal and professional lives.

How Are Nonprofit Workers Doing? Exploring the Personal and Professional Impact of COVID-19: Revue Canadienne de Recherche sur les OSBL et l'Économie Sociale (ANSERJ)

La COVID-19 a présente des défis sans precedent au secteur a but non lucratif. Les données saccumulent sur limpact de la pandemie sur les finances et les operations des organismes sans but lucratif (OSBL), mais on en sait moins sur letat des travailleurs dans ce milieu. Dans cet article, on reconnaît que, dans ce secteur qui se professionnalise de plus en plus, de nombreuses organisations dependent de leur personnel remunere. Cest pourquoi cette etude evalue comment la COVID-19 a transforme la maniere dont les travailleurs des OSBL perçoivent leur travail actuel et futur. On utilise un sondage sur les travailleurs des OSBL ayant un diplome detudes superieures pour decrire les changements au travail relatifs a la pandemie et pour explorer limpact de ces changements sur lengagement de ces travailleurs a legard du secteur. Nos resultats montrent que les travailleurs des OSBL sont nuances dans la maniere dont ils envisagent leur travail et leur engagement envers Le secteur. Nous examinons nos resultats en considérant comment des recherches futures pourraient tenir compte de l'impact des circonstances personnelles et professionnelles des travailleurs sur leur maniere de percevoir leur travail dans le secteur.Alternate :COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges to the nonprofit sector, and while evidence is accruing about its impact on nonprofit finances and operations, less is known about how nonprofit workers are faring. With so many organizations in the increasingly professionalized nonprofit sector reliant upon their paid staff, this study assesses how COVID-19 has changed the way nonprofit workers think about their current and future work. We use a survey of nonprofit workers who have a nonprofit graduate degree to describe pandemic-related work changes and to explore the impact of these changes on their commitment to the sector. Our findings reveal that nonprofit workers are nuanced in how they approach their work and commitment to the sector. We distill our findings considerate of how future research should endeavor to unpack the degree to which workers personal and professional circumstances affect how they think about their work in the sector.

Exploring Select U. S. Community Foundations and COVID-19 Responsive Community Philanthropy.

This article examines the extent that community foundations (CFs) are funding COVID-19 mitigation in their communities. We examine 877 of the 894 National Standards accredited community foundations in the United States for both general discretionary grantmaking to COVID-19 responsive discretionary grantmaking in a purposeful sample. Exploring the landscape of national standard certified community foundations COVID19 funding patterns in local communities presents as statistically significant. Exploratory research is presented regarding the connections between the CFs increase community well-being through early responsive discretionary grantmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to mid-November 2020.

COVID-19 as a nonprofit workplace crisis: Seeking insights from the nonprofit workers' perspective.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations face increased demands for services alongside decreased revenues and must make tough choices on how to weather these stressors. Alongside these organizational changes, COVID-19 impacts nonprofit workers and could be a career shock for these individuals, potentially altering how they think of their work and career intentions, even jeopardizing their commitment to the sector. Therefore, this paper outlines a research agenda to understand how the pandemic impacts nonprofit workers and their commitment to working in the sector. Several areas for future research are identified including human resource policy, leadership development, generational differences, gender effects, nonprofit graduate education, and mission-specific work effects.