Reality Check: Alaska profits from nonprofits
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For example, we all know oil and gas drives Alaska, but do you know what our second biggest economic driver is? Turns out it's Alaska's nonprofits.
That's according to a new study released by the Foraker Group, itself a ground-breaking nonprofit group formed to provide support and guidance to Alaska's nonprofit community.
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According to the Foraker report, nonprofits provide more than 44,000 direct jobs, which in turn creates thousands more. If nonprofits were considered a single industry, they would be second only to the oil and gas Industry when it comes to economic impact.
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