Protecting Privacy: Essential Data Security Practices for Nonprofits

ARTICLE | April 28, 2025

Nonprofit organizations touch countless lives, and in the process they collect and store a variety of personal information—everything from donor credit card numbers to employee HR records to, in some cases, patient health data. These details are often highly sensitive, and mismanaging them can result in legal consequences, regulatory fines, and serious damage to hard-earned community trust. Safeguarding sensitive information is no simple feat. Potential threats can come from skilled hackers, unscrupulous staff or contractors, and even seemingly innocent oversights in data handling. 

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