Maryland: Non-profits add jobs, outpace for-profit sector
According to the Baltimore Sun:
Nonprofits - especially big ones - are continuing to drive employment growth in Maryland, a new report suggests.
Nonprofit employment grew almost three times faster than for-profit employment in 2006, according to a study released yesterday by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies and the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. The charity sector includes small-budget homeless shelters and soup kitchens but is dominated by big anchors like the Johns Hopkins University and the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Nonprofit jobs increased by 2.9 percent from 2005 to 2006, the most recent numbers available. For-profit employment increased by 1.1 percent, the study found. All told, nonprofits accounted for nearly 245,000 jobs - about one out of every 10 statewide. That's higher than the nation's tally of one for every 14.
Nonprofits are responsible for nearly one out of every three private sector jobs in Baltimore, which has been losing for-profit employment for years... click to continue.
