Can you sell to non profits?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32645810

by ghostmatt • 4 years ago

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I am working on a company that sells virtual education course. Do non profit organizations buy services like this from for profit companies?

Any thoughts ?

jschveibinz• 4 years ago

Yes, of course. Non-profits use tools just like everyone else. But they typically have small budgets, so it can be a difficult market. Good luck.

eesmith• 4 years ago

Sure.

In fact, one way to make money is to start a non-profit cyberschool, and have it pay a for-profit company for management and course materials.

From https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/problems-with-for-pro...

In 2002, the Morning Call newspaper of the Lehigh Valley reported on the “cautionary tale” of a cyber called Einstein Academy Charter. Almost immediately after launching Einstein, founder Mimi Rothschild reportedly contracted with a company called Tutorbots Inc., which she and her husband owned. The school quickly collapsed, but not before passing $2.3 million in taxpayer dollars on to Tutorbots, the Morning Call reported.

From https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cyber-school-founder...

Over the course of four weeks, the government will try to prove that Trombetta funneled millions from the cyber school into a not-for-profit national network of digital school, and then into the for-profit Avanti Management Group along with other Trombetta-created companies.

From https://www.upnorthprogressive.com/2019/01/23/the-pace-of-em...

Paris opened her cyber for-profit charter school on June 21, 2016. With offices in Saginaw and Grand Rapids. she offered over 250 courses and dual enrollment for students attending her cyber “school”. One month later she registered her management company, Paris Academies of Compelling Education Inc., with the state of Delaware. ... It almost seems as if Nancy Paris knew at some point people would catch on that her charter school for homeschoolers was an excuse to grab Michigan taxpayer money and live the good life. Which she allegedly did.

With all the bad reputation out there, you've got quite a slog ahead of you.

Can you sell to non profits?

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