A Stanford article in 2012 stated "At current rates of growth, according to Giving USA, it will take until 2022 to return to the level of giving recorded in 2007." 

An economic study published by Community Development Halton in 2010 had the following key findings (read the report for a full list):

• smaller charities, arts and culture and environmental non-profits – were the most negatively impacted by decreases in their revenue in 2009;
• Social Services and Health-care organizations were both significantly impacted by surging demand and operating costs for the services they provide

Hard Hit, a 2010 study by Social Planning Network of Ontario found:

• Rising demand
• Inability to meet needs
• Deficits up, surpluses down
• Falling revenues
• Challenging working conditions for nonprofits and charities

Read more here.

Revisit the past decade. What happened to your revenues? Staffing levels? How did you recover? Historical performance is not an indicator of future returns, but it's a pretty good place to start.
Build resilience into your forecasts. Know your levers. Tell your senior staff. Inform your Board of Directors.
Layer sensitivity analysis in your views. "What if..."
Keep that enterprise risk management plan handy. Do you even have one?
Partner. Merge. Acquire. Get economies of scale on your side.
Rally the troops. Talk to your funders and donors about their commitments. 
Be. Prepared.

Put simply, Plato's "theory of forms" asserts that everything on Earth is actually the imperfect copy of an ideal form that exists beyond our universe - unattainable. Therefore a perfect circle does not exist in reality. And by that definition, neither can the Circular Economy, but we should set our sights on the ideal.

You can find excellent primers here and here. But the best one (for dummies) is here.
Unintended consequences of recycling is more consumption.
Fascinating articles on the need to reboot recycling and questioning the status quo.

Poland and the Czech Republic rank near the top. Surprised? They are among the European countries producing the least municipal waste (per year per person).

Canada has a very dirty secret. (updated here).

Finland.​

Turning food waste into cocktails (click... it's not what you think it is).

CE100 from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Ontario has recycled over 120 million tires, more than 95% of old tires, since 2009. Read more here.

We are evolving toward the Circular Economy 2.0
​Developing countries have an opportunity to widen the circle.

The world's population is 7.7 billion. Since the iPhone was introduced 10 years ago, more than 7 billion phones have been produced. Where did they all go?
UK MPs want to peek inside your sock drawer.