[Filed with Secretary of State July 11, 2016.]
ACR 192, Gordon. California Nonprofits Day.
This measure would designate June 22, 2016, as California Nonprofits Day and recognize the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state.
WHEREAS, Nonprofit organizations are a large and vital part of California’s economy, with nonprofit economic activity contributing 15 percent, or one-sixth, of California’s gross state product; and
WHEREAS, Nonprofit organizations rank as the fourth largest industry in California by employment, with nearly one million people employed by nonprofits, accounting for 1 in every 16 California jobs; and
WHEREAS, Each year nonprofit organizations bring in at least $40 billion in revenue to California from out-of-state sources; and
WHEREAS, California nonprofit organizations employ greater percentages of women and people of color than the overall civilian workforce; and
WHEREAS, California nonprofit organizations are trusted institutions that exist to provide services to the needy and vulnerable, improve quality of life, express community values, and promote social change; and
WHEREAS, The nonprofit organization community in California is a strong economic power that uses that power for the common good; and
WHEREAS, California’s nonprofit organizations are national and international groundbreakers and leaders in the environment, in science, in safety net innovations, in civil rights, in the arts and humanities, and in the pursuit of democratic ideals; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature, in recognition of the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state, declares June 22, 2016, as California Nonprofits Day; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
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