Nonprofit HR departments see rise in influence, not size

HR professionals in the nonprofit sector are becoming increasingly more important to their organization’s operations, even if their relative growth in numbers has remained flat since the recession.

A new study from XpertHR and Nonprofit HR finds that the typical ratio of HR staff to nonprofit employees is 1:66. Meanwhile, despite this low size relative to organizational size, nearly half (49.2%) of respondents say there is a greater recognition of HR among senior leadership; the other half (46.5%) of respondents say their influence has remained unchanged, according to the 2014 HR Staffing, Costs and Structures in the Nonprofit Sector survey.