Organizations Filed Purposes:
Mayday Space was formed for the charitable and educational purposes of fostering the arts, education, nutrition, and healthy living for residents of the local community in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
Mayday Space was well positioned to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic's food shortages due to our space's proximity to food pantries and community growers. We also had existing relationships with those organizations, and we seamlessly transitioned away from in person programming to online classes, with our volunteers instead bagging food and doing deliveries for food-based mutual aid work. Paid staff (hours not calculated here) and unpaid board members were also on hand to manage volunteer operations and coordinate with other organizations doing food relief. We spent 1214.10 on COVID sanitary supplies like masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, etc. We also spent 708.90 renting a truck to conduct deliveries to other food distribution hubs in Brooklyn. We also covered meals for our volunteers every day we did a grocery bagging operation, totaling 1049.95. We received 5242.47 in funding through NYC's Civic Impact grant to cover staff time, and 3000 in funding through a Citizen's Committee grant for COVID related expenses and some staff time.
Due to the civil unrest related to Black Lives Matter protests, Mayday partnered with NYC Action Medical to offer online programming for medical professionals who wanted to offer their support to protesters who might've been injured while exercising their rights. The classes were offered up by donation, with a portion of the proceeds going to Mayday for costs related to managing the administrative side of the programming as well as staff time for promoting the classes. We received 7672.11 in donations for those attending the courses, and paid out 3441.50 to our partner organization for instructors.
Though we started the year operating normally, we had to cancel our basic carpentry and very successful salsa classes due to the pandemic. We continued to offer some classes online (language, comics, writing, history), using our new Zoom subscription for students and instructors to meet online. We also expanded our Zoom subscription when we found that the capacity was too small for some of the online programming we were hosting. We also shared our Zoom account with local community organizations that needed larger capacity to host mutual aid / food distribution conferences, or tenants' rights conferences during the pandemic. Zoom costs were 627.30 over the course of the year, and instruction costs were 22074.49, for both a portion of the previous semester and a portion of the current year (we usually pay independent contractors at the conclusion of their classes). We received 61,846.30 in donations from students in online classes/attendees of other online programming, after accounting for payment processing fees and cancellations. Staff coordinating time costs are not calculated here as an expense exclusive to this part of our operations, as the staff time is spread across all of our programmatic priorities.
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 |
|---|
| Joshua Carrera | Program Director | 30 | $31,531 |
| Rahel Biru | Host / Caretaker | 20 | $12,220 |
| Samantha Desire | Director | 15 | $0 |
| Zyad Hammad | Treasurer | 10 | $0 |
| Lucas Shapiro | Director | 15 | $0 |
| Patricia Rodriguez | President | 10 | $0 |
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