Safety Saints Inc

Safety Saints' vision is to build a corps of everyday citizens that are trained to meet emergencies with confidence and life-saving skills in under-resourced communities across America. This will result in better prepared, healthier communities, while also providing individuals with skills that are attractive in a wide variety of career paths.

Safety Saints launched program operations in September of 2021. In order to successfully ramp up operations to a minimum level in the first six months, we are seeking investments in our operational capacity and program delivery. The ambitious goal of the organization is to train 2,000 people in 2022.

Safety Saints seek to engage with the community as a whole and become a health and safety resource. In addition to our direct program services, Safety Saints will seek long-term relationships with local government and elected officials to expand upon existing health and safety efforts. Our community managers will proactively engage with educational institutions, social service organizations, local businesses groups, and other community-serving organizations to build awareness of current health and safety issues while providing demonstrations on key emergency preparedness and health topics.

To successfully achieve our mission, Safety Saints will need to:

* Establish a growing roster of active qualifying community partners in each of the regions that we serve in order to provide training to their staff and program participants.
* Build relationships with local government and elected officials in each region that can connect us with qualifying community partners and financial support from discretionary and contracted sources.
* Secure major gifts from individuals and corporations that support the bottom line operation of the organization.
* Develop a donor base of recurring individual givers that sustains local program operations.
* Grow corporate partnerships in each region to fuel program expansion to new qualifying community partners.
* Recruit and retain skilled Community Managers who will be both trainers and regional representatives who proactively manage relationships in the communities we serve.

Safety Saints was founded and launched in 2021 by Mitch Cynamon and Jennifer John. Mitch Cynamon, Executive Director, has over fifteen years of experience providing a variety of health, safety and emergency preparedness training with his private company, Initiate Care. He also has deep experience working in and serving the restaurant and hospitality industry. He has saved the lives of over ten people and helped countless others, just by being the person who stepped up to help during an emergency medical situation before EMTs could arrive. He has a deep passion for training others to create more “Safety Saints” in every community. While the pandemic caused severe disruption to business as usual, it sparked his motivation to address the disparities that he has seen during his work within the training industry and found Safety Saints.

Jennifer John, Chief Operations Officer, has over twenty years of experience in nonprofit management, combining expertise in operations, programs, and development. She has served as a consultant to many growing nonprofit organizations. Jennifer has secured significant recurring funding from individuals, foundations, corporate donors, and government sources while building cross-sector partnerships that drive program expansion.

The Board of Directors for Safety Saints has diverse membership from many different backgrounds and industries. Several members have networks within two or more of the cities we currently serve. The board is led by President, Joe Maglio, who serves as Chief Executive Officer at McKinney, a full-service creative and media agency. Our Vice President is Justin Polk, Co-Founder and Director of Invisible Collective, a creative collective and production company.

Safety Saints aims to build a team that is fully engaged with the needs and aspirations of the communities we serve. We also want to provide a stable working environment that fairly compensates everyone at a living wage. Therefore, our front line training staff will be comprised of manager-level positions (Community Managers) in each of our regions. These staff will be responsible for recruiting and maintaining relationships with our program partners while understanding and delivering programs in their communities. Safety Saints will additionally hire specialty trainers (Community Trainers) at an hourly rate equal to or better than 40% above minimum wage. Our staffing plan includes building relationships with workforce development organizations and recruiting staff directly from the programs and places that we serve.

Safety Saints' was formed in early 2021 with pilot programs launched in September of 2021. We have attracted an impressive board of directors and raised funds with our year-end campaign that will support our Winter 2022 programs.

We are cultivating relationships with social service organizations in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. We have partnered with workforce development programs in NYC and have delivered Department of Health certification programs, as well as CPR/AED, first aid, and other medical profession-focused training in the winter of 2021-22. These partnerships are growing into year-round relationships that will allow us to train internal staff, workforce development program participants, and the general public on an ongoing basis.