New Data Reveals Stark Picture of Covid-19 Impacts on Canadian Nonprofit and Charity Staff

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has hit charity and nonprofit staff hard. A significant 33% of participating organizations laid off at least one staff member since March 2020. Nearly one-quarter (23%) of organizations engaged in permanent layoffs.

Moreover, participating organizations laid off an average of 2.1 staff in the past twelve months, one of which was permanent.

The combination of layoffs and natural attrition resulted in a cumulative 4.6% reduction in the total paid workforce across all participating organizations for a total loss of almost 3,200 jobs across 1,361 organizations. On a per organization basis, the average reduction was 16%. The difference between the cumulative sector total and the average per organization is because the cumulative total accounts for the size of organization staff complements.

Although the impact of COVID-19 on charity and nonprofit staff has been significant, it has not hit organizations equally across the sector. Just shy of one-quarter (23%) of participating organizations have actually increased their staff contingent since March 2020 while a further four in ten (42%) have not experienced changes to staffing levels.

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