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June 30, 2008Nonprofit Job Growth in Maryland Outpaces Private Sector; Nonprofit Organizations Provide Nearly 1 Out of Every 10 Jobs in the State |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: Nonprofits in Maryland are growing their workforces nearly three times faster than the state's for-profit sector, according to a recent Johns Hopkins University study. Employment in the state's nonprofit sector increased by 2.9 percent during 2006, the latest year for which such data are available. By comparison, employment in the state's business sector grew by only 1.1 percent. "Not only do nonprofits provide critical services and opportunities for cultural expression, but they also play a key role in the state's economy," said Lester Salamon, director of the Center for Civil Society Studies within the university's Institute for Policy Studies and a leading expert on nonprofits. Nonprofit job growth is especially critical given the recent employment declines in other parts of the U.S. economy." "This growth continues a long term trend," said Nancy Hall, senior advisor at the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. - Nonprofit job growth was especially strong in the Washington suburbs (3.8 percent) and the Baltimore suburbs (3.1 percent). This reflects a continuing suburbanization of nonprofit jobs in the state, with nonprofits in the Washington and Baltimore suburbs employing well over half of all nonprofit workers in the state. While the hospital field experienced slightly lower than average job growth, nonprofit hospitals still added 14,449 net jobs over this seven-year period.
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