What’s The Plan?

For nonprofit provider organization executive teams, strategic planning is a non-negotiable for navigating today’s chaotic market landscape. In the plans to shore up financial sustainability, a large majority (88%) are creating growth plans to increase revenues from existing or new funders, almost half (46%) are considering the delay of planned workforce cost increases (e.g., postponing compensation increases, halting hiring), and more than 40% are considering drawing from their organization’s reserve funds, according to recent survey of nonprofit executives, State Of Nonprofits 2026: What Funders Need To Know.

At the same time, demand is on the rise . . .