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Authors

	Michael H. Hall, Margaret L. de Wit, David Lasby and David McIver Canadian Centre for Philanthropy
	Terry Evers, Chris Johnston and Julie McAuley Statistics Canada
	Katherine Scott Canadian Council on Social Development
	Guy Cucumel, Louis Jolin and Richard Nicol Alliance de recherche universités-communautés en économie sociale à l'Université du Québec à Montréal
	Loleen Berdahl and Rob Roach Canada West Foundation
	Ian Davies Capacity Development Network, University of Victoria
	Penelope Rowe Community Services Council of Newfoundland and Labrador
	Sid Frankel Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector Organization of Manitoba
	Kathy Brock Public Policy and the Third Sector, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
	Vic Murray School of Public Administration, University of Victoria

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge many people who contributed to the research and the preparation of this report.

At the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, Cathy Barr and Eli Malinsky assisted with the development of the survey instrument and the preliminary data analysis. Jason Moreton and Barbara Brownlee assisted with data analysis and report production.

Shirley Lenton, Peter Wright, Linda Lefebvre, Sophie Arsenault and Pierre Caron from Statistics Canada assisted with all phases of this project.

We would like to express our appreciation to the members of the Research Steering Committee of the Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI) Capacity Joint Table for their advice and support: Adriana Davies, Heritage Community Foundation (Co-chair); Roger Boe, Correctional Services Canada (Co-chair); David Boyd-Thomas, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital Foundation; Don McRae, Canadian Heritage; Barry Schmidl, P.E.I. Council of the Disabled; Paddy Bowen and Marlene Deboisbriand, Volunteer Canada; and Jo Sutton, Womenspace. Secretariat representatives of the Research Steering Committee include Sabrina Guerin, Nancy Amos, Roberta Bustard, Liz Hong-Farrell, Liz Neiman and Raphael Ogom of Human Resources Development Canada. Greg Bamford represented the Social Development Directorate, Human Resources Development Canada, throughout the project.

We are also grateful to Andrew Green and S. Wojciech Sokolowski at the Centre for Civil Society Studies, Johns Hopkins University for their advice on the design of the survey instrument and other aspects of the research.

Finally, we would like to thank the 13,000 nonprofit and voluntary organizations that participated in the survey.

This research was undertaken in response to a request for proposals issued under the VSI, a joint undertaking of the voluntary sector and the Government of Canada. Its long-term objective is to strengthen the voluntary sector's capacity to meet future challenges and to enhance the relationship between the sector and the federal government to better serve Canadians. The National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations is being conducted under the auspices of the VSI Capacity Joint Table, one of seven joint tables created to do the work of the VSI.

The research was supported by funding from the Capacity Joint Table, through the Social Development Partnerships Program of the Government of Canada.

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Catalogue no. 61-533-XWE

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ISBN 0-662-38051-7

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