Survey: 8% of U.S. nonprofits ‘in imminent danger of closing’

As donors lost jobs and charitable giving waned in 2009, one of every six Colorado nonprofits laid off workers, and more than one in four cut back or eliminated programs to needy residents, according to a recent study by the Colorado Nonprofit Association (CNA) and the Community Resource Center.

Colorado is home to more than 17,000 nonprofit charitable associations that make up 6 percent of the state economy, according to CNA.