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Board Book Insert — A Sector in Crisis: How U.S. Nonprofits and Foundations Are Responding to Threats 

This brief provides an at-a-glance view of key data from CEP’s new report on how nonprofits are faring amidst unprecedented challenges — and what they need from their funders

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Condensed into a format intended to inform conversations at the board level, this two-pager provides key takeaways from CEP’s new report. 

Based on nationally representative survey data from more than 400 nonprofit leaders and more than 200 foundations, this new report expands on findings first presented at CEP’s conference in late 2025, revealing a nonprofit sector in crisis. The data offer insight into not only how nonprofits are faring, but how foundations are responding and what more leaders would like to see from funders.  

January 2026 

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