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Non-Profit Initiative Survey

The Financial Resilience Institute is exploring whether there is an unmet need for a Canadian Non-Profit Financial Resilience Index and a free, confidential organizational self-assessment tool. We would value the candid perspective of non-profits and charities, including whether existing information and supports are already sufficient.

Financial resilience is defined as a non-profit or charity’s ability to ‘withstand financial challenges, stressors or shocks as a result of unplanned business events, while delivering impact.’
1.Current understanding and ability to act

How confident are you that your organization currently:
Not at all confident
Slightly confident
Moderately confident
Very confident
Completely confident
Don’t know / not applicable
Understands its current level of financial resilience
Knows which actions would help maintain or improve its financial resilience
Can access the tools, advice, programs or capacity building it needs
Can track whether its actions are improving financial resilience while supporting impact
2.Potential need and value

How valuable, if at all, would a free, confidential Canadian Non-Profit Financial Resilience Index and self-assessment tool be if it helped your organization understand its financial resilience, identify strengths and vulnerabilities, and connect to relevant best practices learnings, potential actions and resources?
3.What is the main reason for your answer?
4.Potential contribution to impact

In which ways, if any, could a Non-Profit Financial Resilience Index and free self-assessment tool create value? Check all that apply.
5.What would make this Initiative genuinely useful, or unnecessary, for your organization and the broader sector?