Challenge Enterprises celebrating 50th

Challenge Enterprises is celebrating its 50th anniversary by attempting to pay off its women’s housing units.

CEO Nancy Keating said her organization started in October 1972, when the charter members who formed what would become Challenge Enterprises established a nonprofit agency to serve adults with various abilities.

Today the organization employs 308 people, 189 of whom have different abilities.

The CEO said that from 1988 through 2021, people with different abilities earned nearly $40 million through Challenge Enterprises.