Fast Facts

Nonprofits work in every community: caring for returning soldiers, rebuilding cities, educating children, supporting the workforce, nursing the sick, supporting our elders, elevating the arts, mentoring our youth, protecting natural resources, and more.

  * The nonprofit sector has over $2 trillion in assets (excluding foundations). If it were a country, the nonprofit sector would have the seventh largest economy in the world.

  * The nonprofit sector employs over 14 million people or ten percent of America’s workforce.

  * The nonprofit sector contributes almost $322 billion in wages to the US economy.

  * The nonprofit workforce outnumbers the combined workforces of the utility, wholesale trade, and construction industries.

  * Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity every year:  $63.1 billion in spending by organizations and an additional $103.1 billion in event-related spending by their audiences.

 

Information from National Council of Nonprofit Associations NCNA
http://www.ncna.org/

 

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