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2021, the sector remained 485,000 jobs below its pre -pandemic leve1.226 In addition, some nonprofits may have experienced declines in volunteer staffing during the pandemic.227 At the same time, nonprofits provide a host of services for their communities, including helping Americans weather the multitude of challenges presented by the pandemic. The ARPA and the interim final rule recognized this dichotomy nonprofits as entities that have themselves been negatively impacted by the pandemic and as entities that provide services that respond to the public health and negative economic impacts of the pandemic on households and others —by creating two roles for nonprofits. First, under Sections 602(c)(1)(A) and 603(c)(1)(A), recipients may "respond to the public health emergency or its negative economic impacts," by, among other activities, providing "assistance to ... nonprofits." The interim final rule defined assistance to nonprofits to include "loans, grants, in -kind assistance, technical assistance or other services, that responds to the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 public health emergency," and "nonprofit" to mean a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.228 Second, as discussed above, ARPA and the interim final rule provided that nonprofit organizations may also receive funds as subrecipients of a recipient government (i.e., a government that received SLFRF funds); subrecipients carry out an eligible use of SLFRF funds on behalf of a recipient government (e.g., a recipient government that would like to provide food assistance to impacted households may grant funds to a nonprofit organization to carry out that eligible use). Recipients generally have wide latitude to award funds to many types of 226 Chelsea Newhouse, COVID-19 JOBS UPDATE, NOVEMBER 2021: Nonprofits add just 5,000 jobs in November, Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University (December 10, 2021), http://ccss.jhu.edu/november-2021-jobs/ 227 Elizabeth T. Boris et al. supra note 209 at p. 38. 228 § 35.3 Definitions. 154