Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Tweet[IWS] EMPLOYMENT in AMERICA'S CHARITIES: A PROFILE [December 2006]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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The Johns Hopkins University, Center for Civil Society Studies
DECEMBER 2006
EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICAS CHARITIES: A PROFILE
LESTER M. SALAMON AND S. WOJCIECH SOKOLOWSKI
http://www.jhu.edu/~ccss/research/pdf/Employment%20in%20Americas%20Charities.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]
[excerpt]
This report presents new information on employment in Americas charities
the broad set of health, education, civic, scientific, and charitable
organizations entitled to tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code.1 The report covers the full nonprofit workforce,
including both paid and volunteer workers, though for some variables
data are available only on paid employment.
Employment is an unusually good indicator of trends in the nonprofit
sector. This is so because nonprofit organizations tend to operate in fields
that are highly labor intensive. The number of workers, whether paid
or volunteer, thus provides a good indication of the activity of these
organizations.
Unfortunately, however, existing sources of data on nonprofit employment
have long suffered from a number of serious limitations due to variations
and gaps in coverage and a lack of timeliness. To overcome these
problems, this report draws on two newly available data sources: first, the
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), or ES-202 data
system, operated by state employment security offices in collaboration
with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; and second, a new annual survey
of volunteering carried out by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of its
Current Population Survey. The QCEW covers all nonprofit employers
with at least four employees, though twenty states put the reporting
threshold at one employee.3 The volunteering data are based on surveys of
60,000 households and report not only the number of volunteers but also
the time they devote. (For more detail on these data sources and the
steps that were taken to generate data on the nonprofit workforce from
them, see Appendix A).
Using these data sources, several important dimensions of nonprofit
employment come into much clearer focus.
[Thanks to Shirl Kennedy of Docuticker.com for the tip].
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
The Johns Hopkins University, Center for Civil Society Studies
DECEMBER 2006
EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICAS CHARITIES: A PROFILE
LESTER M. SALAMON AND S. WOJCIECH SOKOLOWSKI
http://www.jhu.edu/~ccss/research/pdf/Employment%20in%20Americas%20Charities.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]
[excerpt]
This report presents new information on employment in Americas charities
the broad set of health, education, civic, scientific, and charitable
organizations entitled to tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code.1 The report covers the full nonprofit workforce,
including both paid and volunteer workers, though for some variables
data are available only on paid employment.
Employment is an unusually good indicator of trends in the nonprofit
sector. This is so because nonprofit organizations tend to operate in fields
that are highly labor intensive. The number of workers, whether paid
or volunteer, thus provides a good indication of the activity of these
organizations.
Unfortunately, however, existing sources of data on nonprofit employment
have long suffered from a number of serious limitations due to variations
and gaps in coverage and a lack of timeliness. To overcome these
problems, this report draws on two newly available data sources: first, the
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), or ES-202 data
system, operated by state employment security offices in collaboration
with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; and second, a new annual survey
of volunteering carried out by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of its
Current Population Survey. The QCEW covers all nonprofit employers
with at least four employees, though twenty states put the reporting
threshold at one employee.3 The volunteering data are based on surveys of
60,000 households and report not only the number of volunteers but also
the time they devote. (For more detail on these data sources and the
steps that were taken to generate data on the nonprofit workforce from
them, see Appendix A).
Using these data sources, several important dimensions of nonprofit
employment come into much clearer focus.
[Thanks to Shirl Kennedy of Docuticker.com for the tip].
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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