1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Work Opportunities and Resources to Keep Nonprofit Organizations Well Act or the WORK NOW Act . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Charitable nonprofit organizations serve on our society’s frontlines in good times and bad. Collectively, nonprofit organizations employ more than 12,000,000 Americans. (2) As the nation confronts the coronavirus pandemic and the attendant economic crisis and recovery, communities throughout the United States will rely on nonprofit organizations more than ever to help more people in more challenging circumstances. (3) Nonprofit shelters, food banks, domestic violence services, early childhood care and education centers, and after-school facilities are being called to feed, house, and care for the people whose lives have been disrupted by illness, job loss, and closures. (4) Charitable nonprofit organizations are being confronted by a combination of contradictory forces, exponentially increasing demand and devastating decreases in revenues. (5) At the same time that need is soaring, many nonprofit organizations are unable to host fundraising events, which threatens an essential source of revenue. Charitable giving has also become more precarious as American families conserve resources in the face of the economic crisis. (6) Without immediate and longer-term resources to keep their doors open to meet ever-increasing needs, many nonprofit organizations will cease to exist for people in local communities throughout the country. (7) In order to meet the needs of the coronavirus pandemic and drive recovery, many nonprofit organizations must innovate and create new models of service delivery. (8) More than 36,000,000 American workers lost their jobs and filed for unemployment benefits in the 8 weeks following March 15, 2020. (9) Providing these newly unemployed workers the opportunity to find employment at nonprofit organizations in their local communities will benefit these workers, nonprofit organizations, and the people these