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Anil Menon, dean of the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park, uses the term “permacrisis” to describe the onslaught of challenges the sector must confront.

“We are living through permacrisis — not a temporary disruption but a permanent condition of compounding instability: fracturing political orders, collapsing alliances and technology eliminating entire categories of certainty,” he says. “The permacrisis facing nonprofits isn’t one problem — it’s four converging ones: surging demand for services, staffing shortfalls, government funding cuts and a fundraising environment that keeps tightening.”

Thanks to its Edyth Bush Institute, Rollins has been involved in nonprofit and philanthropic thought leadership for more than 25 years. In February, it launched a complementary initiative, the Rick Goings Institute for Management and Executive Leadership, which will welcome leaders from both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Menon will serve as its CEO, and he believes technology can play a bigger role in the nonprofit world.