Where are environmental organizing professionals likely to work?
Most paid environmental advocates and organizers will work in the nonprofit sector as part of local, statewide, regional, national, or international organizations and networks. According to researcher Ronald Shaiko, the advocacy and organizing wing of the US nonprofit sector is larger, more diverse, better funded, and better staffed than ever before in history. Indeed, he argues that there has been an exponential increase in the number of national groups over the last thirty years. International NGOs are also an important employer of advocates and organizers. The British business journal The Economist puts the number of international NGOs at more than 26,000, up from 6,000 in 1990 and argues that the biggest growth area has been in groups focused on the environment, labour rights, human rights, consumer rights, and so on. Environmental groups operating at local, state, and regional levels also now number in the tens of thousands in the United States. While several of the more grassroot
