Inspire Recovery
Founder & CEO
An LGBTQ+ affirming addiction treatment and behavioral health program built on the conviction that recovery works best when people are seen for exactly who they are.
Founder · Executive · Advocate
Building care, community,
and technology that
lasts.
Donna Weinberger is a serial founder and executive leader whose work runs from affirming behavioral health and nonprofit advocacy to technology and AI-enabled innovation — eight organizations, one throughline: people first.
- Behavioral Health
- Nonprofit Leadership
- Technology
- Community
- AI-Enabled Innovation
Impact at a glance
8 Organizations founded Across five domains
5 Fields of leadership Health · Nonprofit · Tech · Community · AI
1 Statewide honor Equality Florida Voice for Equality
∞ People-first mandate The throughline in every venture
Selected work
Eight ventures, one operating philosophy
Start with a real need. Build something affirming and durable around it. Then do it again, in the next field that needs it.
Transpire Help
Founder
A nonprofit dedicated to support, resources, and dignity for the transgender community — meeting people where they are and removing barriers to care.
Q Space Detox
Founder
Affirming, medically supported detox designed as a safe entry point into recovery for LGBTQ+ individuals.
Pride Detox
Founder
A detox program built around identity-affirming care, lowering the threshold for people seeking the first step toward sobriety.
The arc of the work
A throughline across very different rooms
From early roots in technology and design through affirming behavioral health, advocacy, and community — Donna is now actively building digital products again. The fields change; the center doesn't: build what people actually need, then make it durable.
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A foundation in technology and design
Founded TownTek and Webstetic — earlier ventures spanning web development, design, branding, animated digital invitations (evites), and printing that built a hands-on foundation in digital media.
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Building affirming behavioral health
Founded Inspire Recovery and stepped into the CEO role, establishing LGBTQ+ affirming treatment as the foundation of a growing body of work in recovery and care.
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Expanding access to recovery
Launched Q Space Detox and Pride Detox to lower the threshold to entry — making the hardest first step easier for people who are too often turned away.
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Advocacy and the nonprofit mission
Founded Transpire Help and created Pride on the Block, pairing direct support for the transgender community with public visibility and belonging.
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Recognized for equality leadership
Honored with the Equality Florida Voice for Equality Award, recognizing sustained advocacy and impact for the LGBTQ+ community.
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A new venture in wellness discovery
Founded SpanScout, a wellness discovery platform and provider directory helping people find healthspan, longevity, functional medicine, hormone, GLP-1 / weight loss, and related wellness providers by category and location.
- Now
Returning to hands-on product development
Building several digital platforms in active development — including BizPlode (AI-enabled growth intelligence), LGBTQHealthcare.com (healthcare discovery for LGBTQ+ affirming providers), ThriftClothing.com (secondhand fashion discovery), and an early-stage executive operating system.
Let's build something
Speaking, advising, or partnering — the door is open.
Whether you're convening a stage, shaping a program, or starting something of your own, Donna brings hard-won perspective across care, advocacy, and technology.