This article draws upon concepts of community resilience to explore the antecedents of community philanthropic organizations’ response to COVID-19. Although the pandemic is a global threat, responses have been local. We test a model of community resilience activation in the context of the emergence of local COVID-19 funds. We find that a philanthropic organization’s capacity to act in a crisis and respond to the needs of the community depends on the stock of community capitals and organizational capacity. The importance of economic, cultural, and political factors in predicting the emergence of a fund raises important questions about disparities in resilience along class and race lines and the role of political ideology in shaping perceptions of crises. Our research contributes to our understanding of community philanthropic organizations’ capacity to activate community resources during a crisis.

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激活社区复原力：美国各地 COVID-19 基金的出现

本文借鉴社区复原力的概念来探讨社区慈善组织对 COVID-19 的反应的前因。尽管大流行是全球性威胁，但应对措施是局部的。我们在当地 COVID-19 基金出现的背景下测试了社区弹性激活模型。我们发现慈善组织在危机中采取行动和响应社区需求的能力取决于社区资本的存量和组织能力。经济、文化和政治因素在预测基金出现方面的重要性引发了关于不同阶级和种族之间的弹性差异以及政治意识形态在塑造危机认知中的作用等重要问题。