On estimating the size of the non-profit sector in the US economy

This Nonprofit Almanac Symposium, sponsored by Voluntas , is noteworthy. The symposium celebrates the publication of the Nonprofit Almanac 1992-1993. This is really the fourth edition of the work by Virginia Hodgkinson and Murray Weitzman which first appeared in 1984. That first edition was less than 80 pages long; the second edition, in 1986, was twice that length; the third edition, in 1989, comprised 224 pages; and the current edition has 619 pages plus an index, a table of contents, etc. We can safely assume that its growth in length reflects both the growth rate of its value to us and the growth rate of the effort it takes to produce it. It has become an absolutely indispensable resource for all interested in the independent sector in this country.