Organizations Filed Purposes:
In an increasingly corporatized book industry, Small Press Distribution (SPD) brings readers independently published literature, emphasizing small press values--equity, experimentation and access.
SPD distributes printed literary books to the book trade on behalf of our nearly 400 member publishers.
Warehouse and Fulfillment Services for Independent Literary Presses: this includes "picking, packing and shipping" some 300,000 books a year from our warehouse while receiving more than 1,000 new titles to inventory each year, plus maintaining customer service, billing, and other bookkeeping services for those sales.
Marketing and Publisher Relations for Independent Literary Presses: includes issuing reports and tracking fulfillment rates for ~350 independent literary publishers, maintaining a website that receives 20,000+ unique visitors a month, producing marketing material, such as our SPD Recommends bi-weekly email of new titles sent to booksellers, librarians, individuals and teachers, creating and disseminating marketing collateral, and providing direct marketing for our presses through trade show representation and professional gatherings.
Community Outreach Programming: this includes non-fundraising events and programs, including outreach events and ongoing programs such as the Poetry Trading Post, which gives out free books in exchange for poems written on the spot at various locations and tradeshows, as well as an array of book clubs, classroom visits, educational programs, and literary readings around the Bay Area and the US.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Brent Cunningham | Executive Dir. | 40 | $93,047 |
| Jeffrey Lependorf | Former ED | 20 | $92,574 |
| Estee Schwartz | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| David Rothenberg | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Rena Rosenwasser | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ethan Nosowsky | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Juliana Spahr | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Morgan | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Tonya Foster | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Lorraine Lupo | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Roberto Bedoya | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Laura Moriarty | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Jonathan Ferndandez | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Cecil S Giscombe | Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| Alan Bernheimer | President | 1 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202140749349301229_public.xml