Nonprofit Ventures

The NY Council of Nonprofits started a simple blog, Nonprofit Ventures, after our recent Entrepreneurial Ventures for the Arts trainings in Albany and NYC. This blog is a place to share ideas and ask questions about starting your own for profit venture. As nonprofits face more funding challenges, entrepreneurial ventures are becoming more of focus and opportunity to generate unrestricted operating revenue. Do you have an idea? Share it here on NYNED or visit Nonprofit Ventures.

We also invite to learn from your peers. We recently sat down to speak with Bernadette Cannon, an amazing supporter and advocate for Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, who attended the very first New York Council of Nonprofits Entrepreneurial Ventures training in Oneonta in 2004. She came to the training with a simple idea: start a thrift shop. For the next couple of years, she worked tirelessly to make her idea a reality. Listen to her share her insight about her for profit venture. Most importantly, hear about her success.



Visit our YouTube channel and watch Bernadette share the rest of her story and her feedback. Have your own story to share? Post it here, or contact us. Interested in contacting Bernadette? You can e-mail her at thrift.shop@cahpc.org.