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

By Abny Santicola

“We want to be true to our mission of serving as many children [as possible],” Nobili says. “When you have a child with a disability, middle-income families can and do go bankrupt. It’s a very costly endeavor here. So we feel passionately no child’s future should be compromised because of their inability to pay, so we thought Achieve Consulting and the high-ropes [course] would help us toward that end. It will not be the single solution; it’s just part of the solution.”