November 18, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
To help charities survive in the tough economy, the National Council of Nonprofits has created a new online Economic Vitality Center.
The online resource seeks to help charities — as well as grant makers, policy makers, journalists, and the general public — understand the financial meltdown and how it is affecting different types of nonprofit organizations across the country. To that end, it contains examples of ideas that charities are trying to cope with hard times, from holding brainstorming meetings of local nonprofit groups to sharing back-office functions to save money.
Officials at the National Council of Nonprofits, a Washington umbrella organization for state and regional associations that represent charitable organizations, said that they plan to continually update their new online resource.
In addition to examples, the site contains statistics on the economy and the nonprofit world, information on affected nonprofit organizations by geographic region and mission, and different ways nonprofit groups can wage advocacy and publicity campaigns in support of measures that could help them weather the downturn.
The Chronicle also has devoted a special section of its Web site to articles showing how charities are dealing with the economy.
