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We have released our new report on Indiana Nonprofits: Trends in Social Assistance, 1995-2009. Click to see the Press Release for this study, a short four-page summary or the full report. For more information about the report, click here. Future reports will focus on Arts, Entertainment and Recreation and on Health Services (excluding Social Assistance).
I hope you find the report of interest and encourage you to distribute the findings as widely as you think appropriate and useful. Here are a few of our key findings:
Overall Social Assistance Employment
· Nonprofit employment in social assistance grew faster than overall state employment and the state's nonprofit sector as a whole.
· Even during recessions, nonprofits stayed in business, kept staff levels relatively steady, and founded new establishments.
· Nonprofits accounted for the majority of employees in the industry – a higher share than for any other private industry in Indiana – but this share decreased over time, reflecting the growth of the for‐profit sector.
· Employees working in nonprofit social assistance establishments tended to have higher annual wages than their counterparts working in for-profits.
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
· Nonprofit employment in vocational rehabilitation services increased by almost 50 percent between 1995 and 2009, but employment in for-profit vocational rehabilitation services more than doubled, although from a much smaller base.
· Average wages of nonprofit vocational rehabilitation workers decreased slightly (adjusted for inflation), while average annual for-profit wages increased over more than a quarter.
Individual and Family Services
· Nonprofit employment in individual and family services increased over 50 percent, but growth in the for-profit sector far outpaced nonprofit growth (up by 600 percent).
· Average annual wages in nonprofit individual and family services organizations increased 25 percent in constant dollars while for-profit wages decreased slightly over the same period.
Child Day Care Services
· From 1995 through 2009, the nonprofit sector founded many more child care service establishments than the for-profit sector. Even so, the number of for-profit establishments outnumbered nonprofits roughly five to two.
· Child day care services had the lowest wages of all four sub-industries, perhaps reflecting the presence of many part-time employees in this industry.
Community Housing, Food, and Other Relief Services
· Nonprofit employees accounted for almost two-thirds of private sector employment in relief services in 1995 and increased to 85 percent by 2009, the only sub-industry where nonprofit employment grew relative to for-profit employment.
· Nonprofit relief service workers outnumbered their for-profit counterparts but received lower average annual wages.
Kirsten
Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Chair: Governance and Management Faculty
Director, Indiana Nonprofit Sector Project
School of Public & Environmental Affairs
SPEA, Room 419, Indiana University
1315 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-5971; fax: (812)-855-7802
kgronbj@indiana.edu
Homepage: www.spea.indiana.edu/gronbjerg/
Project: www.indiana.edu/~nonprof