Weathering the Storm: Protecting Your Nonprofit and Yourself in Uncertain Times 2025 (Parts 1-3)

Webinar Overview:

In these turbulent times, risk is everywhere—you and your nonprofit are more vulnerable than ever.

RoundTable Technology’s three-part webinar series, led by data privacy experts Destiny Bowers and Karim Beldjilali, offered nonprofits essential guidance to navigate today’s growing digital and operational threats. Each session focused on a specific layer of protection—personal, organizational, and long-term resilience—empowering attendees with immediate and practical steps to strengthen their defenses.

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

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

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

This session provides a clear framework for nonprofits to evolve their protections and remain resilient in the face of future challenges.

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The SAFE Cybersecurity Foundation

Core building blocks and standards to establish a unified defense model tailored for sponsor ecosystems.

Personal Defense & Digital Hygiene

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

Peer Insights & Collaborative Input

Key learnings from fellow sponsors and the opportunity to directly influence the SAFE framework.

Part 2: Organizational Risk Management & Baseline Protections

Building on the personal-level strategies, this session turns the focus to organizational risk—highlighting the importance of system-level safeguards and culture. Leave with a roadmap for fortifying your organization’s core defenses in an unpredictable environment.

What You'll Learn

Risk Exposure & Essential Baselines

Practical methods to identify key organizational vulnerabilities and roll out foundational protections to lower risk.

Policies & Shared Accountability

Clear internal controls and simple strategies to foster a culture of vigilance and security awareness across your team.

Resilience & Incident Readiness

Actionable frameworks to build response and business continuity plans so your organization can respond calmly and effectively during an incident.

Sustainable Risk & Audit Management

Build an adaptable security program backed by regular assessments to catch new vulnerabilities as your organization evolves.

Policy Governance & Staff Training

Maintain current, practical policies alongside ongoing security education to keep your team informed and vigilant.

Continuous Security Culture

Embedded practices and habits that foster long-term organizational resilience, awareness, and mission protection.

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.

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.