NONPROFITS

Mary Ellen Campbell is a professor of management at the University of Montana School of Business. She brings an array of real-life experience in corporate America to her classes, including plenty of experience with nonprofit…

Weisberg said she wanted to pursue the sale "because I was looking for new ways to raise private funds other than at dinner parties."

"Running a volunteer organization can take you away from your passion," "More passion … less paperwork."

There is an overload of nonprofits, many of whom are too small to have the impact that their worthy missions call for. More and more nonprofits are competing for limited resources. I believe it’s time for business and civic leaders to lead in the charitable community

While the concept of non-profits creating profit isn’t new — the Salvation Army, for instance, has long used this model — it has powerful resonance in the valley, where many philanthropists believe the power of capital markets can be harnessed to help the poor and other worthy causes.

"We need to have everybody in the present looking at what we’re creating in the future," Powers, board president of the Colorado Environmental Coalition, said. "We need to create opportunities for people to work together."