Irish Nonprofits: What Do We Know? – January 2012 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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International International activities; exchange/friendship/cultural programmes; development assistance associations; international disaster and relief organisations; international human rights and peace organisations.
There are 389 organisations in this group in the Irish Nonprofits Database. Most are concerned with delivering overseas aid, including about 10% with a religious mission. There is also a handful of resource and service or membership organisations serving the sector, as well as international friendship/exchange organisations. A small number of these entities are major international NGOs, most of them incorporated, including most of the members of DĂłchas, the Irish association of nongovernmental development organisations. We have limited information about the 150 entities that are unincorporated. Only one (Trocaire) is a member of DĂłchas. Most of the rest appear to be missionary organisations, international friendship associations, and nonprofits focusing on a targeted relief to particular needs, regions or groups, in Africa, Ethiopia, Bosnia, Haiti, Gambia, Chernobyl, Moldova, Rwanda, Somalia, Sao Paulo, Thailand, Romania, Bucharest, Belarus, Malawi, Soweto, Tanzania and Uganda respectively. Please note: following the guidelines promulgated by the UN for the correct use of the classification system, we have classified nonprofits wholly concerned with fundraising for international purposes in Group 8: Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion.
Governance Incorporated nonprofits Unincorporated nonprofits Number of company directors currently serving Average number of directors per company
Numbers of employees reported (data available for 220 nonprofit companies) More than 100 employees 51 to 100 employees 11 to 50 employees 6 to 10 employees 1 to 5 employees No employees
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280 109 1,556 5.6 1% 0% 6% 5% 24% 64%