About Us

OUR MISSION / SOCIAL IMPACT

Our mission is to infinitely improve the way charitable organizations raise money.

On average charities spend 13% of the money they raise on fundraising expenditures (charitynavigator.org). With us they won't have to spend a penny. This satisfies the growing need of 501c3 organizations to raise money to support their causes and will immeasurably improve the social impact of the 1.7 million charities in the US. We accomplish this mission in a profitable, sustainable manner.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Jonathan Rosen as founder and creator of Give.bz will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer. As an entrepreneur with 25 years of CEO experience, he is the ideal individual to lead this new concept to quickly become a nationally recognized innovative way to fund not-for-profit organizations. Jonathan’s diverse experience includes: running the largest exterior home improvement company in Westchester County, NY, creating Mobelex Designs an importer, national wholesaler and significant web-retailer of European office and home-office furniture, acquiring Cumberland Furniture and acting as Chief Operating Officer of this commercial office furniture manufacturer and importer of high-end products sold nationwide to Fortune 1000 companies. He holds a Law Degree, Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Bachelor of Business Administration from George Washington University.

End Point Corporation is applying their ecommerce development expertise to develop the Give.bz website using open source technologies such as Rails, Spree, DevCamps and MySQL.

ADVISORY BOARD

Richard Getler (eBusiness Strategist): Richard is the Vice President of the Interactive and eBusiness Strategy department  of L’Oreal. After joining L’Oreal in January 1994 as Director of Business Systems for Lancôme he assumed leadership of Business Systems for all of L'Oreal's Luxury Brands in 2000 (Lancôme, Kiehl's, Biotherm, Shu Uemura, Armani Beauty, Designer Fragrances). His department works with more than twenty brands, providing centralized leadership to their interactive teams on the development and maintenance of L’Oreal websites, and other consumer-facing digital initiatives. Richard’s expertise centers on customer engagement strategies, web toolkit technology, site optimization, visitor acquisition techniques, management of a shared hosting environment, onsite search technology, email campaign tools and mapping software. A few of the brands supported include:  L’Oreal Paris, Maybelline, Garnier, Lancôme, Kiehl’s, Redken, Matrix, and Kerastase. Richard graduated with a B.S. degree from M.I.T., and earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from California State University at Chico.

Debra Descloux (non-profit, development): Debra is Deputy Director of IFCA, Inc. (Interfaith Council for Action), a leading not-for-profit affordable housing agency in Westchester County, NY.  Launched in 1968, IFCA is the County's oldest Neighborhood Preservation Company and a designated Community Housing Development Organization.  She is responsible for all government and private grants and their administration, serves as the company public relations officer and manages 100 units of housing for low/moderate income working families in Tarrytown, Ossining and Croton, NY.  Ms. Descloux began her career at a leading Fortune 500, where she was Assistant VP and Manager in Corporate Communications, and served as intranet. In addition, she worked in the International Group, launching offices in Europe and Asia/Pacific regions. She attended Middlesex College, NJ and Marymount College, NY and is accredited in the Managing and Leading Series.  Ms. Descloux has been a featured speaker at leading corporations in the Metro area.

Susan J. Mancini (web design and development):Susan is the creative director of Susan J. Mancini Design, a full service marketing, graphic, web design organization with over 20 years of experience in all phases of corporate branding.  Her work is well known throughout the Hudson valley where she has serviced a wide range of organizations from small businesses to international corporations. Her past work includes developing interactive training software for the United States Army, as well as designing for clients including Merrill Lynch, American Express, Clearview Acupuncture and many others.

Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft (legal):Ruth has a long career in the practice of law, law teaching and adjudication.  The winner of the William Randolph Hearst scholarship to the National Judicial College for 2008, Judge Kraft is an executive board member of the NYSALJA and a member of the advisory board of the Center for Ethics in Business at Loyola-Marymount University.  Her academic area of specialization is ethics and professional social responsibility; she created ground-breaking curricula in these areas at what is now the Stern School of Business of New York University.   An acccomplished mediator, she serves as a neutral under the auspices of the National Arbitration Forum.  Judge Kraft is admitted to practice in New York and before the United States Supreme Court.  She is a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College, a winner of both the New York City Urban Fellow and Root-Tilden Scholarship for the 2nd judicial circuit and the recipient of a JD from the Yale Law School.

Steven Schragis (media, education, marketing):Steven founded One Day University in 2005, which offers live events in 10 different cities featuring the most acclaimed professors from the finest Colleges and Universities. From 2000-2005 he was the National Director of the Learning Annex, the largest continuing education school in North America offering over 8000 classes, workshops, and seminars in 32 cities annually.    From 1989-2000 Steven was the CEO and Publisher and founder of the Carol Publishing Group, parent company of Citadel Press, University Books, Birch Lane Press and Lyle Stuart. He sold the company after nearly 2500 books in print and 12 national NY Times bestsellers -- including two that reached #1 in over a dozen countries.  Steven was co-founder and Publishing Director of Spy Magazine, one of the most influential media properties in recent decades, as well as Marketing Director of Cahners Business Publications, one of the world's largest publishers of trade magazines and business information. He was the Marketing Director of the Doral Hotel Corporation. An attorney admitted to practice in New York and Florida, and he has taught intellectual property law and marketing classes at New York University and the University of Chicago. Steven has been profiled in Forbes, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and on PBS and NPR in connection with his business innovations.

Josette Dewey (web design and development):Josette is the creative force behind Sheffield Media Group, LLC. With 8 years experience in marketing, both domestic and international, 11 years in graphic design/art direction and over 9 years in web design and development, Josette brings a wide range of skills to her clientele. Clients range from small local business to international corporations. Clients served include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Optimus Services, G.W. Hoffman, Inc. (with Johnson & Johnson, Highliner Foods, Dannon, Ortho Biotech), Rail Europe, EOS Airline, among others. Josette has been recognized with significant awards from organizations such as Macromedia, Yahoo and ASTA.

Betsy Kent (Internet Marketing): Betsy is the founder and president of Be Visible Associates, a boutique Internet Marketing company located in New York City in the heart of SOHO. Betsy’s company develops strategies for businesses to become visible on the Internet. Betsy’s 15 years of advertising and marketing expertise has helped her continually exceed her clients expectations. She has helped businesses of all kinds to increase their bottom line by setting-up and managing Paid Search and Search Engine Optimization programs with an eye on ROI. Her clients range from national e-tailers to local high profile service businesses in the NYC metropolitan area.

Neal Kurzner (business, e-commerce):Neal is CEO of Emenee, a manufacturer, importer and national distributor of decorative hardware tile.  He is also the founder and CEO of www.glasstilesetc.com, a web retailer specializing in the distribution of tile to retail customers throughout the United States.  He is a graduate of Vassar College and has a Masters of Business degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Jerry Clements, MD (non-profit, health & wellness):In private practice in New York City since 1989.  On faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Beth Israel Residency in Family Medicine.  On staff at St. Vincents Medical Center and Beth Israel Medical Center.  Former President of NY County Academy of Family Physicians.  Former Director of Employee Health at Bronx-Lebanon Medical Center.