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America has 1.5 million nonprofits and room for more

  • Written by Robert Christensen, Associate Professor, Romney Institute of Public Management, Brigham Young University
Overcrowding is harder to define than it may appear.adike/Shutterstock.com

The nation’s 1.5 million nonprofits do everything from fielding Little League teams to funding orchestras.

Despite all the good these organizations do, some donors worry that the nation has more nonprofits than it can sustain. In America alone, more than 36,000 of them...

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