For-profit ventures help nonprofits shore up the funding they need to maintain and expand their programs

By Abny Santicola

Dan Johnson, FareStart’s development director, says this awareness instills in trainees a feeling of earning their keep, rather than getting handouts.

“There’s an empowerment piece from the client side, and then I can speak as a development guy, the fundraiser, when you talk to donors and you can tell them the story that FareStart is not only teaching self-sufficiency to the people in our program, we are modeling that in our very own business model and that it’s a cyclical and self-sustaining type of model.