People first, always
Every venture starts from a person who was being underserved, turned away, or unseen. The org is just the most durable way to help them.
About Donna
A builder who keeps starting things that needed to exist.
Donna Weinberger is a founder, executive leader, entrepreneur, and advocate. Their work spans five fields that rarely sit at the same table — and they've spent a career proving those fields belong there.
Donna's throughline isn't an industry — it's a stance. They find the place where people are being failed by the systems meant to serve them, and they build something better in its place. That instinct has taken them from the deeply human work of recovery and behavioral health to the front lines of LGBTQ+ advocacy, and on into technology and AI-enabled innovation.
As Founder & CEO of Inspire Recovery, they built an addiction treatment program on a simple, radical premise: people recover best when they're affirmed for exactly who they are. That conviction reappears in everything that followed — the detox programs designed to lower the threshold to care, the nonprofit dedicated to the transgender community, the street-level initiative that turns public space into belonging.
Their advocacy hasn't gone unnoticed. Donna is a recipient of the Equality Florida Voice for Equality Award, recognizing sustained leadership and impact for the LGBTQ+ community.
That instinct extends into technology, too. Earlier founder ventures — TownTek and Webstetic — built a hands-on foundation in digital media, web development, design, branding, animated digital invitations, and printing. Today that background powers SpanScout, a wellness discovery platform and provider directory that helps people find healthspan, longevity, functional medicine, hormone, GLP-1 / weight loss, and related wellness providers by category and location. Different rooms, same question every time: what do the people here actually need, and what's the most durable way to give it to them?
How they work
Four principles behind every venture
Affirming by design
Care and community work best when people don't have to translate themselves to be helped. Affirming isn't a feature — it's the foundation.
Build to last
Visibility matters, but institutions outlast moments. The goal is always something that keeps working after the launch energy fades.
Use the new tools well
Technology and AI are leverage, not theater. The question is always whether they let a small, focused team do more for the people they serve.
Where they lead
Five domains, one operator
- Behavioral Health
- Nonprofit Leadership
- Technology
- Community Initiatives
- AI-Enabled Innovation