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Serving New Brunswick

11 Sep 2007

A response rate of 53% (N=279) was achieved, and the analysis of these responses provides a better understanding of the sector in terms of the type of organizations in the province and the challenges they face in providing services. [...] Some examples of this include the proclamation of 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers by the UN, and in Canada, the creation of the Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI) in 2000 and the implementation of large national surveys (eg: National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations). [...] Over the course of this study and debate different provincial jurisdictions in Canada have proposed and implemented different configurations of the interface between the state and nonprofit and voluntary agencies; and the variations, from province to province and sub-sector to sub-sector, are significant. [...] In an effort to contribute to a better understanding of the capacities and challenges of nonprofit organizations within specific regional contexts, this paper presents the results of a survey conducted in the province of New Brunswick. [...] The parameters for inclusion of organizations in the sample were based primarily on the service category codes designated by the CRA, as well as categories of the International Classification of Non-profit Organizations (Salamon, L. and Anheier, 1997).1 The first step of survey implementation was to conduct focus groups with a selection of potential participants in order to gain feedback on survey
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28
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Canada

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