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NPOs Consistently Better Than For-Profits on Jobs

The NonProfit Times

The steepest employment decline occurred in accommodation and food services, a sector largely made up of for-profit businesses. From 2019 to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, employment declined 6.9 percent in for-profit businesses, outpacing the over-the-year decline of 4.5 percent in nonprofits. Nonprofit employment jumped 5.5%

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AI Disruption and Marginalized Communities: Nonprofits as Catalysts for Workforce Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Across industries, frontline workersespecially those in retail, food service, and customer supportare being displaced by automation at alarming rates. The stress is constant, the threat is real, and families like hers are feeling it today, not tomorrow. Stories like Anitas arent rare anymore.

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How AI Translation Is Revolutionizing Multinational Communication

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

They need to hold an info session for parentsabout vaccines, schooling, food services, and child safety. One woman on staff speaks a little Arabic, but not enough to translate training manuals or onboarding forms.

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Comment on Why Do Women Leaders Lag? And What You Can Do About It by Pamela Belyea

Amy Eisenstein

A food service company that supplies local colleges? Please give examples of women-owned business that “serve” the nonprofit sector? This is not a definition that I am familiar with. A publisher of books for hospital personnel? A clothing manufacturing company that makes uniforms for high school athletic teams?

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Wilprep: Leading Innovation in Commercial Kitchen Equipment

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Wilprep: Leading Innovation in Commercial Kitchen Equipment Fast food restaurants are in the food service industry. In 2022, US fast food restaurants alone made huge revenues. After all, the damage rate of appliances adds to the cost of fast food restaurants. The food service industry is fast-paced.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: Talking Through WIN-WIN (Warehouse) Scenarios

The Charity CFO

We’ve also listed a few categories that can be found in their warehouse below: Automotive Equipment & Supplies Electrical Equipment & Supplies Food Service Equipment Hardware Home Furnishing Office Supplies Janitorial supplies This is the only tip of the iceberg. The supplies in WIN Warehouses catalog can be found here.

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What the Growth in the Nonprofit Sector Means for You

NonProfit Hub

When treated as a single “industry,” nonprofits are the third largest workforce in America, behind retail and food services, employing 12.3 As you read, keep in mind that some data may have changed, and continue to do research as new studies are released! Let’s first look at the sheer mass of the sector. million people in 2016.

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