Daily Record Financial News &
Friday, April 14, 2017
Vol. 104, No.109 • One Section
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Nonprofits pack big economic punch NORTHEAST FLORIDA NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDE:
By Karen Brune Mathis Managing Editor
Source: Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida
NONPROFIT, BIG BUSINESS
The Nemours Foundation is one of several nonprofits in Northeast Florida reporting revenue of more than $100 million.
By Max Marbut Staff Writer While many business categories have been in decline during the past 10 years, the number of nonprofit organizations in Florida has grown by 80 percent to more than 83,000. The sector’s workforce has grown 40 percent to more than 530,000 people with an annual payroll of more than $26 billion, according to a report released by the Florida Nonprofit Alliance. “We did the survey to showcase the impact of the nonprofit sector and we’ll share that knowledge with elected officials
in Tallahassee and Washington (D.C.). We want to make sure they’re aware of the nonprofit sector in their districts,” said Sabeen Perwaiz, alliance executive director. The report combines data from charitable organizations (arts, philanthropic, health care and social services that exist for the benefit of the community or society) and non-charitable organizations such as business leagues, civic associations, chambers of commerce federal- and state-chartered credit unions and mutual insurance companies. Nonprofits
UPS boosting package capacity Shipper leases former Samsung building in West Jacksonville
58,000 jobs $2.7 billion payroll $46,000 average wage 153,000 volunteers $98.7 million in volunteer time
Report shows the surging growth of nonprofit organizations in Florida over the past decade
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United Parcel Service Inc. has leased the former Samsung building in West Jacksonville for additional package-processing capacity while its hub expansion is under development. The facility will be completed this fall in time for the holiday volumne surge. The 400,000-square-foot building is at 12400 Presidents Court in Westlake Industrial Park. “This will give us hub processing capacity while the construction of the Jax hub is underway,” spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg said by email. She said UPS will be able to use that extra processing capacity during the November-December holiday shipping season. Rosenberg, UPS public relations director, said the new portion of the Jacksonville hub will be partially open by fall 2018 but the full project won’t be open until fall 2019. UPS does not disclose the terms of its real estate contracts, she said, so the length of the lease was not available. Rosenberg said the interior build-out with conveyor systems at the Westlake building won’t be completed until the fall. She said UPS will shift some workers from the existing location in Westside Industrial Park while it is under construction as some tractor-trailer loads move to Westlake for processing. UPS
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Are term limits the way to fix a liberal Supreme Court? There must be some kind of ghost-lawyer who has it out for Florida’s Supreme Court justices. Twice in this decade, when a lawyer moved into the office of the Florida Speaker of the House, this ghost-lawyer seems to come to life and invade the minds and bodies of two Florida House speakers — both of them lawyers. It must be that. It must be a ghost-lawyer who is angry
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From the publisher Matt Walsh with Florida’s Supreme Court and appellate courts. Because otherwise it’s too difficult to understand how two smart
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guys, two intelligent lawyers, two smart politicians … how once they became speakers of the Florida House they would invest so much time, money and intellectual and political capital in the battles they waged and are waging against the Florida Supreme Court justices and the state’s appellate court judges. We are referring, of course, to House Speaker Richard Corcoran and his efforts to place a
constitutional amendment question on the state ballot to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices and appellate court judges. And six years before Corcoran, after becoming speaker in November 2010, Dean Cannon tried mightily in the 2011 legislative session to split the state Supreme Court into two divisions, criminal and civil, and make it tougher for the justices
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and appellate court judges to be retained in their six-year retention elections. He wanted the judges to have to win 60 percent of voter approval, not just a majority, to be retained. In between Cannon and Corcoran’s speakerships, Florida’s two speakers were not lawyers — Will Weatherford and Steve Crisafulli. And if you Walsh
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