2001 Conference Demographics

About 35% of those attending were from nonprofit organizations already involved in multi-tenant centers, either as tenants or as operators of such centers. Another 40% were staff or boards of nonprofits considering or in the process of creating such a center. About 10% of attendees represented foundations either involved in or seriously considering funding support for nonprofit space. The remaining 15% were service providers including developers, banks and consultants with a few government officials also present, mainly from municipalities considering such developments.

Of the centers represented, about one-third housed human services organizations, about a third were arts-related and another third were non-thematic shared spaces. There were also significant clusters of environmental centers using green design principles, faith-based centers, foundation-run or initiated projects and centers which had community economic development in low-income neighborhoods as a key goal in their creation. We learned of more than 20 established or in-process centers around the nation that we had not been aware of until they registered for the conference.