Employment in America's Charities: A Profile

This report presents the result of a study on employment in America's charities carried out by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. This research covers the full non-profit workforce in health, education, civic, scientific and charitable organisations, including both paid and volunteer workers. Statistics as well as charts are also included

Communiqué No. 21: Taxing the Tax-exempt Sector: A Growing Danger for Nonprofit Organizations

Presents findings from a survey of nonprofit organizations in four fields: children and family services, elderly housing and services, community and economic development, and arts and culture. Report sheds light on the practice of state and local governments targeting nonprofits as sources of needed revenues, sometimes using special fees, field-specific taxes, or PILOTs that get around nonprofit exemptions from property and other taxes. With bibliographical references

Holding the Fort: Nonprofit Employment During a Decade of Turmoil

This report presents data on year-to-year changes in employment in nonprofit establishments in the United States from January 2000 through June 2010, with a special focus on how nonprofit employment fared during the 2007-2009 recession. Examines data by nonprofit fields, geographic region, and compares it to findings in the for-profit sector. With bibliographical references

The State of Global Civil Society and Volunteering: Latest Findings from the Implementation of the UN Nonprofit Handbook

A "global associational revolution," a major upsurge of organized, private, voluntary and nonprofit activity, has been under way around the world for the past thirty years or more. Despite the scale and scope of this development, however, official data to portray it have long been lacking. This report takes an important step toward remedying this situation by presenting a summary of new findings from the implementation b statistical offices in sixteen countries of the United Nations "Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts".Developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies in cooperation with the UN Statistics Division and an International Technical Experts Group, and issued by the U.N. in 2003, this Handbook calls on national statistical offices to produce regular "satellite accounts" on nonprofit institutions and volunteering for the first time, and provides detailed guidance on how to do so. The result is a far more complete official picture of the scope and structure of the nonprofit or civil societ sector than has ever been available in these countries. This report presents the findings from the implementation of this UN NPI Handbook in 16 countries aound the world, including data on the comparative workforce, contribution to GDP, expenditures, revenues, and distribution of activities, and an in-depth look at the advantages off the Handbook approach over the traditional SNA methods of measurement.It is our hope that this report will help to encourage civil society and foundation leaders, volunteer promotion organizations, and statistical offices in other countries to promote the implementation of the UN NPI Handbook in their countries. The result will be to make the nonprofit and volunteer sector more visible, enhance its credibility, enable more effective partnerships between NPIs and public and private institutions, open new research opportunities for scholars, improve the clarity with which national accounts statistics portray national economies, and ultimately to improve citizen well-being

Portugal's Nonprofit Sector in Comparative Context

This is a report comparing the scope, composition, and revenue of the nonprofit sector in Portugal to its counterparts in other countries. The report draws on the important new source of data on nonprofit institutions (NPIs) that has resulted from the implementation of the United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts, including particularly the recently issued results generated by Portugal's Instituto Nacional de Estatistica - INE (National Institute for Statistics) in its Nonprofit Institutions Satellite Account

The Portuguese Nonprofit Sector in Comparative Perspective

This research project is the result of the efforts of researchers, data compilers, and analysts over two years, to understand the history, dimensions, and influence of the nonprofit sector in Portugal