Summary

Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization working to strengthen Canadian charities and nonprofits so they can better serve individuals and communities here and around the world. They created this Report to provide a demographic profile of the diverse nonprofit sector workforce in Canada, which represents 14% of Canadian employee jobs.

Findings include:

• Women make up more than three quarters of the nonprofit sector, and immigrants, Black, Indigenous, and racialized people are also overrepresented.
• Nonprofit workers are paid poorly compared to the economy-wide average, even though on they are more educated.
• Men in the nonprofit sector are overrepresented in leadership roles relative to other positions in the workforce.

Policy & Practice Implications

• The report discusses some of the implications of stereotypes of the nonprofit sector as feminine, including underfunding and over monitoring.
• The report provides recommendations to reduce inequities in the nonprofit workforce, with specifical calls to action for funders, governments, and nonprofit leaders.

Image source: https://www.imaginecanada.ca/sites/default/files/2022-10/diversity-is-our-strength.pdf