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• [News Release] Announcing the 3rd Edition of America’s Nonprofit Sector: A Primer (2012)
  News release | 28 June 2012. Announces the release by the Foundation Center of the third edition of Lester M. Salamon's America's Nonprofit Sector: A Primer.

• [News Release] Billions in Nonprofit Projects Halted by Credit Crisis: Johns Hopkins researchers estimate $166 billion in infrastructure projects delayed nationwide (2009)
  News release | 17 February 2009. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report "'Shovel-Ready' but Stalled: Nonprofit Infrastructure Projects Ready for Economic Recovery Support" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Despite Gloomy Jobs Picture, Michigan Nonprofit Employment Grows (2010)
  News release | 13 October 2010. Announces the release of the Nonprofit Economic Data Project's report " Michigan Nonprofit Employment" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Escalating Pension Costs Hurting Nonprofits (2009)
  News release | 5 November 2009. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report "Escalating Pension Benefit Costs—Another Threat to Nonprofit Survival?" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Johns Hopkins Survey Reveals Hidden Dimension of Health Care Crisis: Escalating health care costs have become issue no. 1 for many nonprofits (2009)
  News release | 2 September 2009. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report " Health Care and Nonprofits: The Hidden Dimension of America's Health Care Crisis" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Nonprofit Employment Recovery Slowed Significantly in September, Still Down by Nearly 8% (10.21.2020)
  As part of our continued effort to track the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic on nonprofit employment, we have analyzed data from the latest BLS Employment Situation Report to estimate nonprofit job losses through September 2020. Online version here.

• [News Release] Nonprofit Job Growth in Maryland Defies Recession (2010)
  News release | 11 January 2010. Announces the release of the Nonprofit Economic Data Project's report " Nonprofits and Recessions: New Data from Maryland" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Nonprofit Jobs Rebound Slightly in October, but Remain Down by Over 900,000 Compared to Pre-COVID Levels (11.16.2020)
  In our continuing effort to track the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic on nonprofit employment, we have analyzed data from the latest BLS Employment Situation Report to estimate nonprofit job losses through October 2020. We then looked at month-over-month trends to see how the overall recovery of early nonprofit jobs losses is proceeding. Online version here.

• [News Release] Nonprofit Jobs Still Down by Nearly 1 Million, Despite a partial Recovery (9.4.2020)
  Our annual Labor Day erlease focuses on nonprofit job losses 6 months into the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. We found that, despite a partial recovery of the U.S. economy over the Summer, the U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics' August Employment Situation Report suggests that nonprofit employment was still down by an estimated nearly 1 million jobs compared to where it stood in February 2020. Online version here.

• [News Release] Nonprofit Leaders to President and Congress: 1 Million Charities Are Ready To Help: Unprecedented Declaration calls for renewing America’s compact with its “citizen sector.” (2009)
  News release | 23 February 2009. Announces the release of the Declaration entitled, “Forward Together: Empowering America’s Citizen Sector for the Change We Need,” calling on the nation’s governments and businesses to join with its citizen sector for a renewed “partnership in public service.”

• [News Release] Nonprofit Rate of Job Growth Outpaces For-profit Rate by 3-1
  Based on new Bureau of Labor Statistics data on nonprofit employment and wages in 2016, this Labor Day news release shows that, between the pre-recession year of 2007 and 2016, nonprofit employment grew by nearly 17% while for-profit employment grew by less than 5%—a 3-1 nonprofit advantage.

• [News Release] Nonprofits a surprising bright spot in national jobs picture (2010)
  News release | 2 September 2010. Based on data from 21 states, this 2010 Labor Day news release shows that nonprofit employment actually grew by an average of 2.5 percent per year between the second quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2009, the worst part of the recent recession. Includes tables on additional findings.

• [News Release] Nonprofits and the Information Revolution (2010)
  News release | 15 December 2010. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report " “The Nonprofit Technology Gap—Myth or Reality?" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Nonprofits Face Serious Constraints on Policy Involvement: Charities widely engaged in advocacy work despite limitations, new survey finds (2008)
  News release | 30 July 2008. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report " Nonprofit America: A Force for Democracy?" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Nonprofits Seek Increased Support for Advocacy: Concerns over offending donor base and board members also barriers (2009)
  News release |22 April 2009. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report on the first Roundtable on Nonprofit Advocacy, a follow-up to the report " Nonprofit America: A Force for Democracy?" .

• [News Release] Nonprofits show job growth during decade of turmoil but still lose market share (2012)
  News release | 19 January 2012. Announces the release of the Nonprofit Economic Data Project's national report " Holding the Fort: Nonprofit Employment during a Decade of Turmoil" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Perfect Storm of Fiscal Stress Hits Nonprofits (2009)
  News release | 29 June 2009. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report " “Impact of the 2007-09 Economic Recession on Nonprofit Organizations" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Recession Taking a Toll on Nonprofit Workers and Programs (2010)
  News release | 14 July 2010. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report " Recession Pressures on Nonprofit Jobs" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Survey Reveals Widespread Innovation at Nation’s Nonprofits: Most nonprofits now measuring their programs’ effectiveness (2010)
  News release | 18 May 2010. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report " “Nonprofits, Innovation and Performance Measurement: Separating Fact from Fiction" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] Taxing the Tax-Exempt Sector: New Report from Johns Hopkins Listening Post Project (2011)
  News release | 18 April 2010. Announces the release of the Listening Post Project's report "Taxing the Tax-Exempt Sector—A Growing Danger for Nonprofit Organizations" and provides some summary findings.

• [News Release] What Do Nonprofits Stand For? Renewing the Nonprofit Value Commitment (2012)
  News release | 6 December 2012. Announces the release of "What Do Nonprofits Stand For? Renewing the Nonprofit Value Commitment" by Lester M. Salamon, Stephanie L. Geller, and Chelsea L. Newhouse.