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Upcoming Conferences

 

  • The XV Congress of South African Sociological Association (SASA)
    "Sport, recreation and Development in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges"
    East London, South Africa 13-16 June 2010 (http://www.sasaonline.org.za)
    Hosted by University of Fort Hare

  • National Council of Voluntary Organizations (NCVO)
    Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference 2010
    Leeds University, UK 6-7 September 2010 (http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/researchconference10)

  • EGPA-Conference 2010
    Study Group on Public Governance Societal Sectors
    Toulouse, France 7-10 September 2010 (http://egpa2010.com)
    For abstract of papers, or other proposal for contributions, please send to Bram Verschuere (bram.verschuere@hogent.be), by May 1, 2010.

  • Global Health & Innovation Conference
    "A Meeting of Minds" -- CNN
    Yale University, Connecticut, USA, April 18, 2010 (http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference)
    Presented by Unite for Sight, 7th Annual Conference



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    Past Conferences

  • 2004."Contesting Citizenship and Civil Society in a Divided World": 6th Annual International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) (hosted by Ryerson University and York University for ISTR).
  • 1998. Spotlight on Voluntary Organizations: Current Challenges and Future Directions.
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New study completed by CVSS in partnership with the Government of Ontario on risk management and insurance for non-profit organizations is now available in both official languages.

  • Taking Risks Safe Way
  • Prendre des risques en toute sécurité

    • We welcome post doctoral fellow Dr. Katie Misener to the CVSS research team. Her post doctoral fellowship is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 2009-2010.

    New working papers are added to CVSS Working Paper Series.


    9% of Canadian employers are nonprofit organizations, employing 20% of the Canadian labour force. This translates to 2 million jobs.
    The nonprofit sector accounts for 6.8% of Canada's GDP while the agriculture sector accounts for 1.5%, mining, oil and gas for 4.0%, retail for 5.0%, food and accommodation for 2.3% of the nation's GDP.
    63% of nonprofit organizations are small and operate with an annual budget of less than $100,000. Only 30% of these small organizations have paid staff. Generally their paid staff numbers less than 2 full-time employees.
    Six and a half million Canadians volunteer in nonprofit organizations, but because many volunteer at several organizations, Nonprofit and voluntary organizations report a combined volunteer complement of over 19 million. This translates into 1.1 to 2 billion hours of volunteer labour representing about 7.5 full-time jobs per voluntary organization.
    Most nonprofit sector managers are women, ranging from 50% in hospitals and universities to 66% in other nonprofits. This compares favourably with the for-profit sector, where only 36% of managers are women.
    54% of nonprofit organizations rely exclusively on volunteers to carry out their missions.
    More than two thirds of the employees in the nonprofit sector are women, compared with less than half in the for-profit sector.
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    • Spring 2006. The Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies: A Decade of Growth and Achievement. This publication provides an overview of the achievements of the first decade of research and education at CVSS. Hard copies are available.

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