For example, to assist with the details of daily administration and operation, nonprofits employ many outside individuals such as printers, accountants, and lawyers. Employees of nonprofits also help pay for the services of teachers, construction workers and auto mechanics. For every two jobs created by the nonprofit sector, one job is created in the community. In addition to its 21,000 employees, the nonprofit sector indirectly supports approximately 11,000 additional workers in Kent County who work in retail, wholesale, business services and financial services. The economic impact of nonprofits in Kent County is like the ever-widening ripples created by tossing a pebble in a pond.
Nonprofits employ thousands of people.
The work of those people affects millions of lives. As this report shows, nonprofits directly or indirectly return more than a billion dollars to Kent County's economy through payroll, daily administration expenses, and daily living expenses of employees. In Kent County, it is clear that as nonprofits serve the community they also make a vital contribution to the economy. In estimating these labor force and wage impacts the study utilized the economic model of Kent County used by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research to measure the economic impact of changes in public and private sector activities.