Rick Gelinas
Winter Haven, FL (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
Ophir/Little Acorns Partnership
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Location:
Winter Haven
Industry:
Entertainment
Year Founded:
2008
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
We intend to prove there can be a partnership between a for-profit and a nonprofit 501(c)(3) whereby:
1. the nonprofit stops depending on gifts and helps the for-profit thrive in exchange for its support.
2. the for-profit gains an emotional marketing advantage uniquely suited to its market: professional women over 40.
The nonprofit, founded in 1984 by my wife Linda and me, has a new program that helps badly wounded war heroes. The for-profit, founded in 2007 by my wife and me, sells novels but only multiple award-winners. My profession is innovative marketing. Linda and I have put our own $30,000 cash into this, plus two years of hard work. We need $250,000 for a running startup to a 5-year plan, 2009-2014, toward solid $10,000,000 5-year income projection and a $9,579,889 line-item budget that includes $1,500,000 given to our vets' program, plus another $10,000,000 income from in-bookstore sales for the following two years (2014-2015) after the nonprofit has been continued on income from successive books.