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Be targeted in approach to board member recruitment during hard times
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
board and administrator for administrators only
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1949-3215
pISSN - 1525-7878
DOI - 10.1002/ban.31216
Subject(s) - unrest , commit , politics , position (finance) , political science , pandemic , social unrest , covid-19 , criminology , political economy , demographic economics , public relations , business , sociology , law , economics , finance , medicine , database , computer science , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
During economic downturns and times of social unease—like the United States has experienced over the course of the last year thanks to the pandemic as well as the racial justice protests and political unrest that marked 2020—nonprofits typically have a hard time on many fronts. When people are less confident of their own financial and occupational position, they often give less to charity and commit less time to volunteer activities.