Weathering the Storm: Protecting Your Nonprofit and Yourself in Uncertain Times 2026 (Parts 1-3)

Webinar Overview:

 

In an era of constant change, understanding risk and building resilience is increasingly important for nonprofits. Our 3-part webinar series, led by RoundTable’s data privacy experts Destiny Bowers and Karim Beldjilali, helps you better understand today’s digital and operational challenges to protect your people, data, and impact. Each session explores a different layer of protection (personal, organizational, and long-term resilience) while offering tactical guidance and actionable steps to help organizations move forward with greater confidence.

Part 1: Covers understanding risk and threats, and how they apply to personal security.

Part 2: Focuses on organizational risk management, reducing liability, and implementing baseline protections.

Part 3: Addresses maintaining a strong security posture and the key actions needed for ongoing protection and success. 

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Part 1: Understanding Risk & Protecting Yourself

Digital safety touches every part of an organization’s work, from day-to-day operations to long-term sustainability. It’s a shared responsibility that extends beyond leadership, staff, and volunteers. Weathering the Storm Part 1 focuses on personal protection and everyday habits that can also strengthen your work across your organization. This foundational session centers on the idea that resilience starts with the individual.

What You'll Learn

Modern Threat & Risk Awareness

Understand what digital risk looks like today and identify the primary cyber threats targeting nonprofits.

Personal Defense & Digital Hygiene

Practical steps to reduce your online footprint, lower personal exposure, and protect everyday workflows.

Detection & Red Flags

Learn to spot early signs of cyberattacks and recognize critical red flags before damage occurs.

Team-Wide Security Culture

Simple strategies to foster digital security awareness and shared accountability across your entire organization.

 

Part 2: Organizational Risk Management & Baseline Protections

You've started building stronger personal habits; now it's time to bring that same energy to your organization as a whole! Part 2 of our Weathering the Storm series shifts the focus from the individual to the institution. Consider this your chance to finally get all your cybersecurity ducks in a row, helping your nonprofit identify organizational risk, put the right protections in place, and create a culture where security is everyone's responsibility, not just IT's. Think of this session as your organization's roadmap to stronger, smarter defenses.

What You'll Learn

Risk Exposure & Vulnerability Baseline

Identify key organizational risks and deploy essential protections to lower your overall attack surface.

Practical Policies & Internal Controls

Establish clear, enforceable cybersecurity policies and controls that your staff can easily adopt.

Shared Accountability Culture

Foster a team-wide security culture that keeps staff, volunteers, and leadership aligned and vigilant.

Resilience & Incident Readiness

Develop actionable response and business continuity plans so you can handle disruptions calmly and efficiently.

 

Part 3: Maintaining Your Security Posture for Long-Term Resilience

Building a strong security foundation is only the beginning. As threats evolve and organizations grow, maintaining an effective security posture requires continuous attention, adaptability, and long-term planning. In the final session of this 3-part webinar series, RoundTable’s data privacy experts, Destiny Bowers and Karim Beldjilali, will help you identify the ongoing actions you can take to strengthen resilience and stay prepared for future challenges. From updating policies to building staff awareness and monitoring risk, you’ll learn how to create sustainable security practices that support your organization’s long-term protection and success.

 

What You'll Learn

Sustainable Risk Management

Build and maintain an adaptable security program backed by regular assessments and audits to catch emerging risks early.

Relevant Policy Governance

Keep internal policies updated, practical, and aligned with your organization's evolving needs.

Continuous Staff Training

Drive ongoing education and awareness to equip your team against changing cyber threats.

Lasting Mission Protection

Embed proactive security habits into daily routines to safeguard your data and long-term impact.

 

 

Get to Know the Speakers

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Destiny Bowers

Destiny has two decades of IT experience across a wide range of projects and platforms, she's helped organizations large and small, nonprofit and for-profit, cloud-loving and cloud-phobic to select and implement technology that helps them succeed.

She helps hundreds of nonprofits stay informed about cybersecurity awareness training and best practices, as well as providing high-level strategic services to improve their technological efficiency and security.

As the workforce continues to increase its distribution around the globe and with the rising popularity of remote work, Destiny has proven herself to be a transformational thinker when it comes to cloud services for today's hybrid or fully-remote workforce.

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Karim Beldjilali

Karim is passionate about supporting organizations with service-oriented missions and how they can leverage technology to more effectively meet their mission. With 20 years experience in technology, ranging from engineering, security and compliance, and IT, Karim has held leadership positions to strategically manage security and IT programs for nonprofits, startups, or established enterprises.

Through a people-first lens, and in cross-functional partnership that keeps all stakeholders in mind, he is dedicated to finding practical meaningful solutions. He has built security and compliance programs, bootstrapped IT operations, and led organizational risk management. So whether moving to the cloud, assessing or hardening for security and compliance, refactoring existing technology or processes, or providing training and mentoring, Karim is ready to plug in and support organizations in major changes and continuous improvement efforts.

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