In a twist on the business adage “doing well by doing good,” John Herron believes you can do good by people with adjustment issues by having them do well in business.

“Our social mission and our business mission overlap completely,” said Herron, president of Baltimore?s Harbor City Services, a commercial moving, warehousing, document shredding and storage nonprofit that hires recovering substance abusers and the mentally ill. “A measure of our success in the social mission is whether or not we?re profitable and serving our customers.”