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That's what Jamie Trujillo wondered only two months after becoming a Challenge Island franchisee. The question came from her deep sense of mission. Trujillo had always been what she calls a "stereotypical teacher's pet," and spent 14 years working with an adult education nonprofit. Then she discovered Challenge Island, an after-school STEM program for kids with approximately 140 locations in the U.S., and became a franchisee in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2019. "It was an expansion of my calling," Trujillo says. But she soon found an age-old problem: Her programs were too expensive for the kids who needed it the most.

Trujillo could think of only one solution — to turn her business into a nonprofit. Challenge Island agreed to help her, and she is now the company's only franchisee with nonprofit status. Here, she

https://www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/turning-a-franchise-business-into-a-nonprofit-heres-how/438921