Non-Profits Pay Off: Business of doing good sustains 139,000 Oregon jobs - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Non-Profits Pay Off: Business of doing good sustains 139,000 Oregon jobs - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA: "Non-Profits Pay Off: Business of doing good sustains 139,000 Oregon jobs
By Susan Palmer
The Register-Guard

Art Taylor's and Dan Lauer's jobs couldn't be more different.
Taylor works in a drafty warehouse in north Eugene supervising workers making mattresses and cobbling together wood furniture to sell in secondhand stores. Across town in a modest yet comfortable office just off West 11th Avenue, Lauer manages programs that help orphaned and abandoned children in five countries.
Taylor wears coveralls and works surrounded by pallets of donated wood, rolls of fabric and bags of cotton and Dacron. Lauer's blue shirt and gray slacks are more suitable in his milieu, communicating via phone and computer with his far-flung staff. "