Winners of Yale Business-Plan Contest for Charities

For DiscounTech, an online service that sells donated and discounted software and hardware to nonprofit groups.

For Diseños Mayapán, a garment-manufacturing facility that makes customized medical scrubs to meet increasing demand for low-cost, attractive uniforms for the expanding health, child-care, and medically related professions in El Paso and the surrounding areas of West Texas. The business will also create new work opportunities for Hispanic residents of El Paso, which has lost 30,000 jobs since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

For CostumeRentals, a business run by the two organizations to enable schools, theaters, corporations, and individuals across the United States to rent costumes owned by the theaters.

For Parrett Paper, a business that sells a line of note cards, gift tags, and holiday cards, and employs people with disabilities.

For Bookshare.org, an online library that offers digital books to people in the United States who are blind or have significant reading disabilities, allowing users to legally share scanned books through a subscription service that meets stringent copyright-exemption requirements.

For Benhaven’s Learning Network, which offers consultation to public-school, special-education personnel on how to serve students with autism.

For an institutional catering service that sells meals to Washington child-care programs and other human- service organizations.

To sell reading glasses, first in the urban parts of southern India, then expanding into rural areas. This profit-generating enterprise is designed to reach more than 200 million people in India who have no access to low-cost glasses.

To create a retail plant nursery on the site of a former military base in an area undergoing economic development, while also generating revenue for the nonprofit organization’s housing and service programs, providing job training and employment for formerly homeless people, and transforming neglected land to an ecologically sustainable use.

To start a line of luxury women’s suits, made to order. The product will be sold at retail prices through trunk shows at resorts and special events.

To sell wheelchair ramps and other features to make buildings handicap accessible for elderly people and the disabled, as well as provide job training and nontraditional employment for women.

To build a Web-based system for financial institutions to track financial transactions and keep records. D2D (“Doorways to Dreams”) and its partner, SunGard Data Systems, have developed an online system to provide banks, credit unions, and other institutions with a cost-effective way to manage individual development accounts, either directly or in partnership with other organizations. Such accounts are usually run by nonprofit groups, which match the money that low-income participants deposit as they save to buy a home, start a business, or further their education.

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.

To operate an ecology-oriented retreat center and family camp on an island within the new Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area.

For Los Niños VolunTours, which will develop and market travel packages for businesspeople, families, and individuals that include opportunities for volunteerism.

To operate a tuition-based, two-week summer program for graduating college and university seniors who seek careers in the theater industry. Taught by industry professionals, the program will instruct students in how to find and keep jobs in the competitive theater business while adapting to New York City’s challenging environment.

To conduct a quarterly survey of 2,200 people with HIV and AIDS. Subscribers will be able to purchase data on the practices, attitudes, self-reported physical- and mental-health status, barriers, and product preferences of people with HIV and AIDS. They will also be able to gain in-depth data from focus groups conducted regionally each quarter.

For Win-Win Cleaning, a commercial cleaning service for corporate customers in the greater Boston area. The business will be structured as a cooperative composed of small cleaning companies individually owned by Vietnamese immigrants in Boston.

For “Live From the 92nd Street Y,” a multifaceted, multimedia venture using satellite broadcasts and the Internet to sell the Y’s programming to educational, community, and cultural organizations across the globe.