New Brunswick Volunteering Facts and Stats

• Eighty-two per cent of New Brunswickers consider themselves familiar with charities and the work that they do. That being said, familiarity often increases with age and education. ¹
• Seventy-two per cent of New Brunswickers believe that charities have too little funding to fund their objectives (New Brunswick is the only province in Canada, according to a surveys conducted in 2004 and 2006, to not have decreased numbers of people who believe this). ¹
• New Brunswick has a long-standing history of volunteering and giving – in 1940, students of Fredericton High School raised money and purchased a mobile canteen for firefighters and training place for the war effort. ²
• There are approximately 2,731 registered charities and over 4,000 incorporated non-profit organizations in New Brunswick, which employ 39,859 people. ²
  
• New Brunswickers also have an interest in our charities and non-profit organizations; 46 per cent of people reported that they’d like to know more about the work that charities do.¹
• The average budget of a New Brunswick non-profit organizations is $660,000. ³
  
• New Brunswick has a long-standing tradition of helping its communities. On average, organizations in New Brunswick have been providing services for 27 years.
• New Brunswick services its communities first – 70 per cent of organizations said that they serve only locally, fulfilling needs in small, rural communities. Fifty-five per cent of non-profits in New Brunswick are outside of large, urban centres. ³
• Non-profits in New Brunswick are, in the majority, staffed and led by women. ³

• New Brunswick residents volunteer on average 52.10 million hours of work annually. ⁴
  
• New Brunswick volunteers are volunteering longer for organizations they care about than the rest of the country, according to an environmental scan on volunteerism. In fact, we rank second nationally in terms of the number of hours per volunteer, at 17 per cent above the national average. ²
• In 2007, 297,000 New Brunswickers volunteered with an organization, each averaging over 175 hours per year of unpaid work. ⁴

• In 2005 alone, 130,620 people gave to charity in New Brunswick. In 2007, the annual donations of New Brunswickers totalled more than $204.8 million. ⁴
  
• Eighty-eight per cent of New Brunswickers give to charity, each donating an average of $372 per year. ⁴

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• Volunteering in New Brunswick

¹ Note. “Talking About Charities 2006: Tracking Canadians’ Opinions About Charities And The Issues Affecting Them” by The Muttart Foundation, 2006.
² Note. “An Environmental Scan on Volunteerism and the Voluntary Sector in New Brunswick” by AIDS New Brunswick, 2005.
³ Note. “Serving New Brunswick: A Provincial Survey of the Charitable Human Service Sector” by McTiernan, H., Thériault, L., Gill, C. & Bell, S, 2007.
⁴ Note. “Highlights from the 2007 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating” by Statistics Canada, 2009.