Long-standing nonprofit organizations that serve the needs of their communities are at the mercy of a devastated economy, unprecedented natural disasters, shrinking governmental support, and rapidly expanding interagency competition for diminishing resources. Organizations are literally on the cusp of a tectonic shift in the funding paradigm. The next decade will be a turning point in the management and financing of a sector that provides billions in services to human services, healthcare, education, addiction recovery and a host of other community based organizations.

Survival will not be the casual byproduct of traditional funding, comfortable relationships, and meaningless metrics. It will be achieved only through aggressive intentionality.