The past decade has seen a rise in windfall gifts—large, flexible, often multiyear influxes of funding—to nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). When organizations receive those gifts, their leaders have moments of joy, celebrating the investment in their mission and the opportunities it could unlock. Soon after, they come to realize they face tough questions and choices about how, where, and when to invest these resources to achieve their goals.

This conversation starter, a companion piece to “Windfall Gifts: Learning from Nonprofits and NGOs That Have Received Large, Flexible Gifts,” is designed to help you—and your board—navigate these questions and choices, and related decision-making processes, should you receive a windfall gift. It outlines a series of first-order questions and considerations that can help your team figure out how best to invest windfall funding.

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