title: Special report: a role model for ASOs. Making money the old-fashioned way. Retail enterprises hugely popular in NYC.
abstract: For those who doubt that a large AIDS service organization can succeed financially without big private or government grants, Housing Works Inc. is an example of how it can be done. About one-third of its money comes from its thrift shops, bookstore, and catering business.
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D005522:Food Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D005653:Fund Raising / Q000379:methods; D006798:Housing / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009519:New York City