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Canadian nonprofit sector second largest in Johns Hopkins survey

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Howard Lake | 27 March 2005 | News

Canada has the second largest nonprofit and voluntary sector among the 37 countries surveyed to date by the Johns Hopkins University Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project.

The nonprofit and voluntary sector represents 11.1% of the economically active population in Canada, compared to 9.8% in the US and 8.5% in the UK.

The figures are contained in “The Canadian Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective Report”, published as part of the Johns Hopkins University Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project.

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The full report is available online.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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