Canada NewsWire Charitable and nonprofit sector in Atlantic provinces reports $6 billion in revenues, employs 106,000

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Canada NewsWire: "Charitable and nonprofit sector in Atlantic provinces reports $6 billion in revenues, employs 106,000
Religious groups most common type of organization

TORONTO, Dec. 15 /CNW/ - According to a groundbreaking new study, the charitable and nonprofit sector in Atlantic Canada is made up of 13,000 organizations that report more than $6 billion in annual revenues and have a total paid staff of 106,000 ($4 billion annual revenues and 83,000 staff when hospitals, universities and colleges are excluded). The National Survey of
Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations(*) (NSNVO), conducted by the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and a consortium of organizations in partnership with Statistics Canada also reveals that:

- A full 35% of paid staff are employed part-time
- Almost half (48%) of nonprofit and voluntary organizations in Atlantic Canada have no paid staff and are run solely by volunteers
- Organizations in Atlantic Canada report that approximately 1 million volunteers contribute 127 million hours of their time to these organizations - the equivalent of about 66,000 full-time jobs"