A for-profit sells tickets at premium for charity - The Boston Globe

A for-profit sells tickets at premium for charity - The Boston Globe: "A for-profit sells tickets at premium for charity

By Joe Light, Globe Correspondent | August 19, 2005

When Jord Poster, a managing partner of Genesis Capital Ventures and cofounder of Priceline.com, looked at the nonprofit world two years ago, he saw inefficiency. A charitable organization might work for a year on a fund-raising event and not have much money to show for it, he said.


To change that, he started Tickets for Charity, a Boston-based for-profit organization. Today, its website, Tickets-for-Charity.com, is one of the only places Rolling Stones fans can still find tickets to the band's Fenway Park concerts Sunday and Tuesday."