Author Archives: Erik Speakman

For most of my career, I have helped nonprofits move families from crisis to stability to success. More recently, for reasons beyond my control, I found myself doing what many nonprofits are doing now: finding another way to make the numbers work. I began driving for Uber from 5 to 9 a.m. What I expected […]

Nonprofits have always been asked to do more with less. What they face now is something different — not a cyclical squeeze, but a structural one. In 2025, the sector hit a fiscal cliff as the last of the COVID-era stimulus funding expired. That alone would have been disruptive. Layered on top of it came […]

Nonprofits, both nationally and locally, are continuously asked to do more with less. However, in 2025, we can expect a sharp rise in that expectation. Here’s why and what you can do about it now to avert a crisis at your nonprofit and a reduction in support for people you serve who are already vulnerable.  […]