General Ramblings: Exposed By And To A Pandemic April 9, 2021 It has been interesting to watch leaders and staff in the nonprofit and for-profit fundraising silo of the charitable world congratulate themselves on data that showed an increase in both giving and the number donors during 2020. You can read about it here https://bit.ly/3sglcnh It’s a good thing they didn’t get injured patting themselves on the back since healthcare, incredibly, lost the second most jobs in the sector during the pandemic, behind only education nonprofits, which lost the most jobs. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, more than 926,000 nonprofit jobs have been lost during the past year, down 7.4% overall. The recovery can be described, at best, as tepid.