Winners of Yale Business-Plan Contest for Charities

For CEI Community Ventures, a venture-capital fund that will make private equity capital investments in 15 to 18 small companies and provide operating support to more than 100 companies in economically strained areas in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

For the Darts Vehicle Maintenance Service, a business that offers repair and preventive- maintenance services for charities in the Twin Cities that transport clients in cars, vans, and other vehicles.

To open a “$1 Shopper” section at the organization’s thrift stores to sell new items, such as socks and underwear, cleaning supplies, and baby-care items.

For VolunteerMatch Corporate, an online service that allows companies to manage their employee- volunteer programs and to list the volunteer opportunities found on VolunteerMatch’s Web site on their internal Web sites.

For I Do Charitable Wedding Services, which works with retailers to offer wedding-gift registries that donate a percentage of the purchase price of the gifts to a charity designated by the couple getting married.

For La Olla, a catering service that sells meals to child-care organizations, after-school programs, and other human-service groups in Newark.

For UHAB Mutual, (New York) a venture that will offer low-cost property and liability insurance to cooperatives in New York City that house needy people.

For Building Value, a business that salvages reusable building materials and makes them available to low-cost-housing contractors and the general public at its discount retail center.

For ElderArts, a business that provides hands-on art workshops to elderly people who reside in independent-living and assisted-living facilities.

To manufacture and sell SmartStorm, a rainwater-recovery system that provides nonpotable water for lawn and landscape irrigation.

For an online service that offers training to child-care providers to meet their annual licensing requirements.

For a pest-control business that provides training and employment for homeless people re-entering the work force.

For the 4th Street Boutique, an upscale used-clothing shop in downtown Cincinnati.

For Providence Home Mortgage, which provides mortgage financing and other services to people seeking to purchase housing, including those who may have difficulty securing loans from traditional banks.

For Skills4Care, an online service that provides continuing education for managers in the long-term-care industry.

To create online organ-donor registries for states that do not already have them, and provide consulting services to states and organizations that run their own registries.

For MCG Jazz, a record label that produces jazz recordings and offers production services at its recording facility.

For the Meals on Wheels Café, a quick-service restaurant at an industrial park in Colonial Heights, Va.

To create new Web services designed to help large law firms manage their pro bono programs.

For Venture Catering, a food-preparation company that provides employment to teenagers and young adults who have completed the organization’s culinary-arts training program.