Religious organizations are nonprofits. Most hospitals are nonprofits. Many leading universities, including Bucknell are nonprofits. There also is a vast number of small, loosely organized associations at the community level that are fundamental building blocks for communities and for public involvement in American life. Some observers argue that these small associations contain most of the resources and most of the participants in the nonprofit sector.
Large nonprofits are very important, and increasingly important in American society.
A substantial number of these jobs are high paid, professional jobs in administration and in professions. The nonprofit sector is the fastest growing organizational sector in American society. This is happening in part because government has been reducing its role as a direct providers of human services and increasingly subcontracting service provision to nonprofit organizations.