This field report explores how nonlocal grassroots organizations provided effective and quick responses during the initial stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan and surrounding regions. Despite the lack of resources and local connections, they were able to overcome administrative failures and provide quick responses to the crisis. Built on a researcher-practitioner collaborative action research project, three strategies facilitating grassroots organizations' quick and effective responses are analyzed and discussed: putting pandemic relief as the strategic priority of their organizations, leveraging social media platforms to scale up existing organizational networks and foster cross-sector collaboration, and effective online trust-building. As COVID-19 unprecedently pushes nonprofits to transform how they deliver services and engage stakeholders, these findings have important policy and theoretical implications for an expanded view of how nonprofits may engage in disaster responses and how public and private funders may shift their funding strategies to cultivate such capacities of grassroots nonprofits.

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摸着石头过河：非本地基层非营利组织如何克服行政障碍，以快速响应COVID-19？

这份现场报告探讨了非本地基层组织如何在武汉及周边地区爆发COVID-19的初期阶段提供有效和快速的应对措施。尽管缺乏资源和本地联系，但他们仍然能够克服行政管理上的失误，并对危机做出快速反应。在研究者与从业者合作行动研究项目的基础上，分析和讨论了促进基层组织快速有效响应的三种策略：将大流行救助作为其组织的战略重点，利用社交媒体平台扩大现有组织网络并促进交叉部门协作以及有效的在线信任建立。