1.
 Contributes over $800billion to the economy
 5.5% of the GDP in US, 6.8% of GDP in Canada
 3rd largest workforce
 Employs 10% of all workers in US, 12% in CA
 Over 15,000,000,000 volunteer hours
 Increasing growth
Source: nonprofitquarterly.org, sectorsource.ca

2.
 58,000+ veterans homeless each
night
 218,000,000+ kids in child labor
 1,000,000+ kids die from
starvation
 36 football fields of rainforest lost
per minute

3.
 Climate change
 Immunization
 Education

4.
 Hard to measure many outcomes
 No standardization of processes, content
 Expensive
 No one wants to pay for it
 So much data in nonprofit sector is crap
 Used to hoard resources

5.
 Who has access to resources for data?
 Who defines methodology?
 Who interprets finding?
 Who determines standards?

6.
 Look at contexts surrounding data
 Combine qualitative with
quantitative
 Combine data with community
engagement
 Reexamine comparison groups
 Reexamine agency/causes