The document discusses how NGOs need to become more agile, entrepreneurial, and digital to survive increasingly difficult financial times. It outlines five key lessons from organizations that successfully transformed, including having a strategy that does not prescribe how goals are achieved, being data-driven to enable foresight, operating through platforms to rapidly form partnerships, and having trust-based and flexible structures. The document advocates that NGOs proactively lead change by prioritizing what they can control and designing changes that support their strategies for the future.