ProFile: Ben Vitale

FundRaising Success spoke with Vitale about how the for-profit world can offer valuable insights for nonprofits and how his dual background helps him in his goals at The Climate Trust.

FundRaising Success: Coming from a for-profit business background, what steered you toward nonprofit work?

Ben Vitale: What led me here was really the mission aspect of the environmental community and the vision of a business model convergence when you look at what's going on in the nonprofit sector and the for-profit sector with regard to the environment. I wanted to be involved and help move those new combined business models forward that take the best of the nonprofit world and the best of the for-profit world and try to solve environmental problems.