1、April 2025PEOPLE FIRSTA PORTRAIT OF CANADAS NONPROFIT WORKFORCEData and Trends ReportDavid Lasby|Principal ResearcherPeople First:A Portrait of Canadas Nonprofit Workforce 2025 Imagine CanadaReviewers:Jodene Baker and Emily JensenISBN:978-1-55401-455-2This report is licensed under a Creative Commons
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3、au Canada ISBN 978-1-55401-456-9About Imagine CanadaImagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is social good in Canada.We work tobolster the charities,nonprofits,and social entrepreneurs who build,enrich,and define our nation and thecommunities they support around the globe.Im
4、agine Canada 2 St.Clair Avenue East,suite 300 Toronto,Ontario,Canada M4T 2T5T 416.597.2293|imaginecanada.ca|Media inquiries:mediaimaginecanada.caKey TakeawaysRecently updated data released by Statistics Canada provide key insightsinto the size and key characteristics of the nonprofit workforce and h
5、owit compares to the total Canadian workforce.See the textbox About this publication for more detail about the updated data.Collectively nonprofits employ 2.5 million people,making the nonprofitsector the largest employer in Canada.Nonprofit employment is 70%larger than construction,60%larger than m
6、anufacturing and 20%larger than retail trade,the three largest for-profit industries.Two thirds of nonprofit employees work in the hospitals,universi-ties and colleges that make up the government nonprofit sub-sector.About a quarter work in community nonprofits and one in twelve inbusiness nonprofit