How a Community Foundation’s Disaster Framework Guided Rapid Pandemic Response

Contributions of the Paycheck Protection Program to Nonprofit Short-Term Sustainability

“…To increase loan uptake among smaller organizations, which might benefit the most from emergency funding programs like PPP (Hubbard & Strain, 2020), governments, private banks, and/or nonprofit intermediaries might offer training, coaching, and technical assistance to guide organizations through the application process and related paperwork requirements. For instance, a community foundation based in New Orleans that supported this research implemented such a capacity-building intervention early in the pandemic (Mumford et al, 2022). PPP was not initially conceptualized with nonprofits in mind (Johnson et al, 2020), so technical assistance was even more necessary for small nonprofits considering whether and how to apply.…”

“…The CARES Act was a stopgap measure, not a sustainable funding source for staffing and operating expenses. Inventories and analysis of communities and their characteristics are needed to identify what resilience looks like at the community and sectoral levels as the pandemic progressed, and whether public and private financial support were sustained, to explore the complex interplay between nonprofit and community resilience (Hutton et al, 2021; Mumford et al, 2022).…”