1. Michael Hall David Lasby October 24, 2007 Using a Social Economy Framework for Understanding the Economic Impact of Community Organizations

2. Measuring Community Nonprofit framework typically excludes co- operatives and the inclusion of hospitals and universities is a “grey area” Social Economy: broad definitions include all nonprofits and cooperatives; narrower definitions may focus on those nonprofits that engage in market activity (e.g., PRI 2005 excludes foundations, religious organizations and business associations) How do measures of size and scope vary according to the framework that is employed?

3. Information Sources 2003 National Survey of Nonprofits and Voluntary Organizations (Ontario data) - –Financial data adjusted for inflation 2007 survey of Ontario co-operatives conducted by On Co-op

4. Community Nonprofit Organizations in Canada: A Significant Economic Force Core nonprofit sector (excluding hospitals, universities and colleges) accounts for 2.6% of GDP or $29.1 billion Volunteering contributes additional 1.7% to GDP (1997 estimates) 1.5 million full-time equivalent workers (paid and volunteers) –9.2% of economically active population Broader nonprofit sector including hospitals, colleges and universities adds $80.3 billion

5. Gross Domestic Product: Nonprofit Sector and Selected Industries, 2003

6. The Contributions of Cooperatives to the Social Economy in Ontario Relatively small in number –Approximately 1,300 co-operatives in Ontario vs. 45,000 nonprofits or about 3% of total number of organizations Significant contribution to revenues –$6 billion vs. $51.8 for nonprofits or about 10% of total revenues for social economy Relatively small paid staff contribution –18,000 vs. 959,000 for nonprofits or about 2% of social economy employment Relatively small volunteer contribution –Volunteer complement of 49,000 vs. 7.8 million for nonprofits

7. Relative Contributions to Social Economy

8. Distribution by Organization Type: Nonprofits

9. Distribution by Organization Type: Co-operatives

10. Distribution by Organization Type: Nonprofits and Co-operatives

11. Annual Revenues

12. Distribution by Annual Revenues

13. Distribution of Revenues by Organization Type - Nonprofits

14. Distribution of Revenues by Organization Type – Co-operatives

15. Paid Staff

16. Distribution by Paid Staff Size

17. Distribution by Volunteer Size

18. Volunteers

19. Distribution by Non-board Volunteer Size

20. Distribution of Volunteers by Organization Type – Co-operatives

21. Average Proportion of Total Head Count as Volunteers by Annual Revenues

22. Members

23. Distribution of Members by Organization Type – Co-operatives

24. Conclusions Choice of conceptual framework can substantially affect estimates of size and scope of community organizations in Ontario Inclusion of “core nonprofits” will dramatically increase estimates of revenues, paid staff and volunteers Inclusion of HUC’s substantially increase estimates of revenues and paid staff Inclusion of co-operatives moderately increase estimates of revenues and some estimates of area of activity There are appear to be differences in the resources that cooperatives and nonprofits rely upon for their operations

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