Rocco Basile

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A recent survey of 450 organizations has found that nonprofits are adding jobs; one-third of nonprofit groups plan to create new jobs in 2011, while 60 percent said they had no plans to freeze hiring. The survey determined that nonprofits are not facing the staffing situations they expected last year. (Source: Nonprofit HR Solutions, and the Caster Family Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Research at the University of San Diego.)

Those non-profits planning to add jobs - about 35 percent - are talking about direct services in order to enable bette client services, and that is in comparison to 18 percent who are thinking about adding support positions like a program manager. Only 16 percent talked about adding fund raiser jobs.

While only about a quarter reduced their staffs, about three-fourths of those organizations surveyed increased the size of their staffs in 2010.

In summary, these survey results were more positive than nonprofits predicted for 2010 when they were survey a year ago.

-- Rocco Basile