What We Can Save From Shuttering Nonprofits: Exit to Open
Posted by Stanford Social Innovation Review on April 29, 2025
At this moment of unparalleled disruption, the entire nonprofit sector is rethinking everything: language to describe their work, funding sources, partnerships, and even their continued existence. Nonprofit programs and entire charities will be closing, or being merged out of existence. Difficult choices are being made. Who will fill the role of witness and archivist to preserve the knowledge of these organizations, their writings, media, software, and data, for those who carry on, either now or in the future?
Jim Fruchterman and Steve Francis from the nonprofit Tech Matters encourage leaders in these tough days to consider a model they’re calling Exit to Open (E2O) and related exit concepts to safeguard these assets going forward.
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