About Alberta's Nonprofit Sector
| The nonprofit sector ensures that Alberta has creative, diverse and prosperous communities. It touches every Albertan’s life in some way. |
The nonprofit/voluntary sector is a crucial part of Alberta’s community fabric.
With more than 25,000 active organizations, the sector is diverse, organized, self-governing, and continually evolving. The sector is comprised of a continuum of organizations that range from informal, volunteer-based with no formal resources to organizations with paid staff, abundant resources, and structured legal forms.
Facts & Figures
• Alberta's nonprofit/voluntary sector consists of over 27,000 charities and nonprofit organizations**
• Community based nonprofits contribute $5.7 billion in revenues to the Alberta economy.**
• Albertans donated 280 million volunteer hours to the nonprofit sector in 2018*
• 46% of Albertans over the age of 15 volunteered in 2018*
• Albertans gave an average of 141 hours of their time to the nonprofit sector in 2018*
Sources:
*From the General Social Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, Statistics Canada
**From Alberta Culture & Tourism