This required nonprofit sponsors to engage in lengthy and frequently futile efforts to line up other sources of money.
The nonprofit sponsors still depend heavily on government financing.
In contrast, tenanting is done by private owners or the nonprofit sponsors in the other programs.
But what has finally put the nonprofit sponsor over the top financially has been a $3.2 million commitment under the turnkey program.
It is the nonprofit sponsor of the project, and it hopes to do others.
The backing of a major local institution as a nonprofit sponsor - in this case, the hospital - will be helpful.
The developments are being turned over to their nonprofit sponsors for management mortgage-free.
The developers and their nonprofit sponsors say that the state has frequently rejected sale prices even though they comply with its requirements.
Such an agency, he suggested, would help nonprofit sponsors with financing, design and construction.
The experience of several nonprofit sponsors makes a dramatic case for public officials to try much harder.