Nonprofits and for-profits alike are competing to provide the Carbon Management Software that will help businesses and others achieve their carbon reduction goals (and maybe in the future address regulation).
I found Reuter's list of "providers" to be most enlightening noting in particular that two of the ten providers are non-profit. Equally interesting: the list identifies how the for-profits are capitalized while only noting the tax status of the remainder: nonprofit.
So -- what's the takeaway? I beleive there are a couple. First, putting a range of assumptions aside, nonprofits can compete in the marketplace alongside for-profits. Next, nonprofits clearly need to come up with some money to finance their venture although somehow that financing, likely donations or grants, is not viewed as financing.
Now, why do nonprofits and for-profits need to compete in this sphere? What do nonprofits bring to the table that for-profits do not? I'm not sure I have the answer but clearly, the market will provide one.