An Increase In The Need For Nonprofit Services?

The NonProfit Times reported today that, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the amount of nonprofits in the U.S. decreased by 18 percent last year. As you probably know very well, a lot of people rely on nonprofits for affordable services, especially in this tough economy.

This news made us wonder whether nonprofits have noticed an increase in demand for their services during the past year. We went to Twitter to find out, and were given the following responses from our followers:

@NonProfitTimes As the economy worsens, the need for services increases. We have been fortunate through these hard times. Hope it continues
— Ctr for Child&Family (@centerforchild) March 27, 2012

@NonProfitTimes Our ToolBanks are seeing their user-ship rise as NPOs use a ToolBank to make more efficient use of service project budgets.
— ToolBank USA (@ToolBankUSA) March 27, 2012

What are your thoughts on this issue? Tweet at us @nonprofittimes or respond in the comments section below. We will update this post with new tweets from our followers.