please sign to support better nonprofit data

[Jesse Lecy]

Please support this important effort to make nonprofit employment data more accessible. See below to sign the letter supporting the proposal to change Bureau of Labor practices from reporting employment trends in the nonprofit sector every five years to quarterly, in-line with practices for other major sectors in the US economy. 

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Dear friends,

I am writing with an urgent request to help strengthen the nonprofit sector at this time of critical need and massive job losses.

The nonprofit sector is not only on the front lines of COVID-19 relief and economic recovery efforts, it is also the third largest private employer in the country.

Yet the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases nonprofit employment and wage data only every five years! This lack of information hampers job recovery efforts and leaves a major portion of U.S. employers and employees in the dark (at least 12.5 million workers prior to the pandemic).

Please join the Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Data Project, Independent Sector, National Council of Nonprofits and Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies in requesting the release of nonprofit employment and wage data on a quarterly basis, putting it on par with other major sectors in the country.

The Department of Labor (DOL) is currently soliciting comments on its 2022–2026 Strategic and Evidence-Building plans. This is an opportunity for you or your organization to speak up by signing on to these comments to Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh.

As these comments state, “it is unfair for industries like goat farming and limousine service to receive regular quarterly workforce data, while the nonprofit sector—representing more than 10% of the nation’s private workforce—is required to purchase this information or wait years for it.”

CLICK HERE TO VIEW AND SIGN ON TO THE LETTER TO THE DOL BY AUGUST 5, 2021

https://psiaspen.wufoo.com/forms/z1unppr41aill3q/

Should you have any questions, please contact me at cinthia...@aspeninstitute.org and copy Maria Calderon at maria.c...@aspeninstitute.org.

On behalf of the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation, thank you!

Warm regards,

Cinthia

Cinthia Schuman Ottinger

Deputy Director for Philanthropy Programs

Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation

The Aspen Institute

2300 N St, NW, Suite 700

Washington, DC 20037

301.512.5121