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United Way Survey Reports Tough Times for Bay Area Nonprofits
Friday Jun 05, 2009
This week a United Way survey reported a dire message for our area: One in every 3 Bay Area nonprofit organizations are worried they will not survive until the end of the year.
San Francisco has over 7,000 nonprofits and the Bay Area has close to 50,000. We all know the big ones such as United Way, but almost half of these organizations that do vital and needed work have small budgets.
20% of these organizations have laid off staff in the past 6 months and 30% are considering layoffs.
Even the San Francisco United Way has experienced salary and staff reductions.
Times ARE tough. We all know that.
That makes it even MORE important to support our nonprofits!
Source: SF Business Times, May 29, 2009 p 6.
Category: Economy
