A social enterprise is the latest monthly $10,000 Ideablob winner.
Marci Bossow Schankweiler of North Wales, PA is President and founder of Crossing the Finish Line (CFL), a Blue Bell, PA-based non-profit organization that provides excursions for young adult cancer patients and their families. Schankweiler founded CFL after her first husband passed away from cancer at the age of 30. She plans to use the prize money to help fund a home for cancer patients near Orlando, FL.
Ideablob.com is an on-line community where small business owners and entrepreneurs are sharing business ideas in exchange for feedback, advice and votes from the community. The monthly prizes are sponsored by Advanta, one of the nation’s largest credit card issuers (through Advanta Bank Corp.) in the small business market.
“We are thrilled that the ideablob community picked a non-profit as this month’s winner,” said Ami Kassar, Advanta’s Chief Innovation Officer. “There are more than 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United States, most of which are small and face the same daily struggles for survival as millions of small businesses.”
“We’ve been talking about securing a home near Orlando for a while and when I heard about ideablob.com I thought I’d put the idea out there,” explains Schankweiler. “There’s such a demand to provide young patients a respite from the traumas associated with cancer. Thanks to the support of the ideablob community, we now have the money to provide additional assistance.”
Go to ideablob.com to put your idea into the mix and to vote on this month’s ideas.
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