Anyone have experience with starting/running a nonprofit?

[David Nacco]

Does anyone here have any experience with starting and operating a nonprofit organization? I am planning to buy a farm and won’t have use for all the land so I would love to start an organization providing agricultural, hunting, fishing, etc. educational and recreation programs for youth. I would like the food grown on the land by the kids in the programs to also be donated to local food banks. I want to try to keep the costs to participate in the programs as low as possible to only cover operating costs (low for the kids and their families I mean). I would also like to possibly do a program where any extra money raised or donated could be used to build homes for families who are going through some sort of hardship (ex. loss of their home to a fire or disaster) to get families who don’t have any other means of getting back on their feet into a home again.

How can I get other business owners/charities/community members on board with a program like this. For example local farmers and tradespeople who can teach kids about their trade and help operate the organization.