CCNDR to expand cybersecurity resources for non-profits with new CoLab In a recent survey of 8,000 non-profits, CCNDR also found that equity-denied organizations face significant barriers in digital skills and training. Why It Matters The Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience (CCNDR) began as a collective between seven co-founding organizations and is now housed within Imagine Canada. Over the next three years, CCNDR will focus on supporting the non-profit sector with data management and literacy, cybersecurity awareness, and emerging technologies like AI. The Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience (CCNDR) will be launching a new cybersecurity CoLab for the non-profit sector this year. Increasing cybersecurity awareness in the social purpose space will be one of CCNDR’s focus areas over the next three years, based on a national survey of 8,000 non-profits. “We hear very loudly and clearly that cyberrisk is very strong in the sector, and there is a major gap there for non-profits that they don’t know how to grapple with,” said Wilfreda Edward, executive director of CCNDR. Non-profits often handle “deeply personal data” about individuals’ health, immigration status, and housing, and “yet are among the least resourced to protect it,” CCNDR wrote in its new strategic plan. The CoLab model brings together non-profit practitioners and technical experts to design technology solutions for the needs of non-profits and charities. CCNDR’s first CoLab, focused on AI upskilling, gives non-profits access to self-paced learning and credentials. CCNDR is also working on providing Canadian non-profits with a cybersecurity readiness pathway to better equip organizations to respond and recover should their systems be compromised, Edward said. CCNDR’s national survey, carried out with Open North, also found that non-profits want to work with what they already have rather than looking for additional tools or new staff. According to Edward, non-profits are already “inundated with