Government and philanthropic funding for the nonprofit social sector routinely fail to cover the full cost of providing services.
While workers within the sector comprise 9% of the workforce in the U.S., 22% of those workers are living below or just above the poverty line.
The financial constraints facing social sector nonprofits impede their ability to apply their expertise to solve for root causes.
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Employers For Childcare Charitable Group (EFCG), a Lisburn-based charity, has been crowned top Social Enterprise at the Ulster Final of 2014’s Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards. EFCG seeks to “make it easier for parents with dependent children to get into work and to stay in work.”