<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Hi All </font><div><font size="4">Here is some basics on the size and importance on the Non Profit Sector which has direct and indirect impact on other countries.  This is very significant to future NPOC membership</font></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:18px;line-height:2;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Research Summary.</span> Nonprofits are operations that provide accessible services for worthy causes, and they supply millions of jobs to Americans and represent a relatively huge portion of the United States GDP. Additionally, the revenue of these organizations has also more than doubled over the past decade.</p><ul class="gmail-large-bullets" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;list-style:none;font-size:18px;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:2">There are <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">1.5 million nonprofit organizations</span> in the United States.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:2">Nonprofits employ <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">10%</span> of the U.S. workforce.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:2">Nonprofits employ <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">7.4%</span> of the worldwide workforce.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">70%</span> of the staff at international nonprofits are paid workers, while <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">29%</span> are volunteers.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">5.7%</span> of the United States GDP comes from nonprofits.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:2">The total U.S. nonprofit annual revenue is <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">$2.62 trillion.</span></p></li></ul><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Glenn McKnight, MA </div><div>Virtual School of Internet Governance </div>Chief Information Officer<div><a href="http://www.virtualsig.org" target="_blank">www.virtualsig.org</a> </div><div><b>YOUR SOURCE FOR INTERNET GOVERNANCE EDUCATION </b></div><div><b>Mobile  437-237-4655</b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>