Founded in FoCo: Nonprofit startups a labor of love for founders
FORT COLLINS — Starting a business is hard. Launching an organization dedicated not to making money but to helping the community is often even harder.
Founded in FoCo, Fort Collins’ annual startup week, brought together founders of newish community benefit groups Monday for a panel discussion on the joys and challenges of operating not-for-profit startups.
Founders must make peace with the fact that often, at least for a while, nonprofits operate on the “one-person show model,” in which the founder’s sweat equity is the defining force keeping the organization above water, Sound Affects Music executive director Hanna Doreen Brown said. Sound Affects…
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