Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Organization helps low income individuals build thriving businesses in New York City's most underserved communities in order to accumulate assets, increase their personal financial security and contribute to the economy.
To help low income individuals build thriving businesses in the underserved communities of NYC and provide access to professional and financial expertise through the small business legal and financial services programs.
The emergency relief fund provides immediate cash relief to active clients (all of whom have undergone the Organization's stringent eligibility confirmation process) to meet a variety of business and/or personal needs, including for basic necessities and living expenses. The Organization targets businesses owned by people of color and/or women who do not qualify or are otherwise unable to access other city, state, federal relif funds currently being made available. The average grant made in 2020 was $6,037 and a total of $507,145 was awarded.
In response to the pressing challenges that COVID created for its clients, the Organization launched a Rapid Response Program to meet the increased need for Start Small help. This highly coordinated effort was specifically designed to help small businesses owned by people of color, women, and immigrants survive and recover from the economic impacts of COVID. With employees supporting this work, the program reached over 900 small businesses in 2020 across the country. The Organization continues to leverage this program both as a framework to provide urgently needed COVID-related support to small businesses across the country, but also as a platform to expand into new geographies where it does not currently have an on- the-ground/in-person presence.
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 |
|---|
| Jennifer Dasilva | Executive Director | 40 | $117,034 |
| Kevin Boon | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kristen Scheyder | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jonny Price | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Francesca O'Dell | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Carolyn Cohen | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Amsalem | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Merry Sui Yuan | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Steven Slutzky | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kenny Nova | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Valerie Malter | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Laura Kozien | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Shawn Kodes | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Alison Mckinnel King | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Navneet Kaur | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Joseph Kaufman | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Christina Chiu | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Abigail Carlton | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mark Kesslen | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Erik Knutzen | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Heather Doherty Guardado | Chair | 1 | $0 |
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