This article analyzes the roles an advocacy coalition undertakes to support nonprofit organizations to cope with the challenges caused by lockdown and physical distance measures to stop COVID-19. We find that social workers and nonprofit members of the coalition created different kinds of solutions and innovative practices to support vulnerable target groups when confronted with the COVID-19 crisis and the resulting lockdown regulations. In particular, we show that the coalition was pushed to diversify its activities, leading to the development of three roles: a direct and indirect advocacy role, a brokerage role to provide information on new practices, and a crowdfunding role to provide finances for material aid. We conclude by emphasizing the implications of our analysis for both theory and practice.

本文分析了一个倡导联盟在支持非营利组织应对因封锁和停止COVID-19的物理距离措施所带来的挑战方面所扮演的角色。我们发现，当面对COVID-19危机和由此产生的封锁法规时，联盟的社会工作者和非营利组织成员创建了各种解决方案和创新做法，以支持脆弱的目标群体。特别是，我们表明联盟被推动使其活动多样化，从而导致三个角色的发展：直接和间接的倡导角色，提供有关新做法的信息的经纪角色以及为物质援助提供资金的众筹角色。最后，我们强调分析对理论和实践的启示。