July 8, 2015
Apparently, nonprofit and for-profit breast milk purveyors are fighting for market share in much the same way blood banks did a decade ago. Peter Frumkin and Carol Chetkovich published a paper in 2002 entitled “Balancing Margin and Mission: Nonprofit Competition in Charitable versus Fee-Based Programs” about how the Red Cross handled competition in its blood bank activities, discussing the choices they made to compete based on product differentiation or cost.