External Resources for Responding to COVID-19

Updated November 9, 2021

Access Council legal, FAQs, public policy resources and more on the Council Resources for Responding to COVID-19 page.

Reopening the Workplace

• Cushman & Wakefield – Recovery Readiness: A How-To Guide for Reopening Your Workplace

Organizational Operations

• Council of Michigan Foundations – What Did We Miss While Managing the COVID-19 Crisis?
• Technology Association of Grantmakers – Cybersecurity Essentials for Philanthropy
• Department of Labor – Guidance on Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Employee Leave
• GGM Nonprofit Consulting – Preparing for Financial Uncertainty in 2021
• Nonprofit HR – Time to Update Your Crisis-Management Plan?
• The Communications Network – Coronavirus Crisis Comms Triage Kit
• IRS – COVID-19 Relief: How Charities Must Document Relief Activities

Grantmaking Practice

• ABFE – We Must Be in It for the Long Haul
• CEP – New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Supporting
• FSG – Listening and Learning in a Time of Crisis
• Trust-Based Philanthropy Resources
• ICNL – Civic Freedom Tracker
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy – COVID-19 Coverage
• Center for Disaster Philanthropy – COVID-19 Response
• NCFP – Leadership in Difficult Times: Guidance for Donors and Giving Families

Expanding Equity

• Grantmakers in Aging – COVID-19 and Aging: What Can Philanthropy Do?
• FSG – How Innovative Community Responses to COVID-19 Support Healthy Aging
• AAPIP – COVID-19 Response
• ABFE – Black Economic Power: Foundation Strategies to Support Black Businesses
• HIP – Together We Win
• PEAK Grantmaking – COVID-19 Resources
• GCIR – COVID-19 Resources

Government Agency Websites Dedicated to COVID-19

• Centers for Disease Control
• Small Business Administration
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Labor
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• U.S. Department of State
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Department of the Interior
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Other Resource Hubs

• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services –  Surgeon General’s Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation
• Funders Together to End Homelessness - COVID-19 Resources for Funders
• The Giving Institute – COVID-19 Resources
• WINGS – COVID-19 Hub
• Nonprofit Finance Fund – COVID-19 Tools and Resources for Nonprofits
• EPIP – COVID-19 Hub
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation – Coronavirus Hub
• Alliance Magazine – COVID-19 Coverage
• Bridgespan – Nonprofits, Funders, and the Coronavirus Crisis
• Candid – Funding for Coronavirus
• Colorado Health Foundation – COVID-19 Resources for Nonprofits and Funders
• Early Childhood Funders – COVID-19 Response
• European Foundation Centre – European Foundation Response
• Independent Sector – Information on COVID-19
• Council of Michigan Foundations – COVID-19 Resource Central
• United Philanthropy Forum – COVID-19 Reponse
• National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy – Philanthropy & COVID-19
• National Council of Nonprofits – The Nonprofit Community Confronts the Coronavirus
• Philanthropy Roundtable – Philanthropy & COVID-19
• Philanthropy California – COVID-19 Response
• TrustLaw – Webinar Series Responding to COVID-19