I never heard of Barstool Sports until the owner, Dave Portnoy, started giving interviews months ago. I guess it's a sports & pop trends website? Portnoy on his own started raising money for small businesses that were heading for failure in the pandemic. So far he's raised $29 million and carefully vets the businesses he helps.
This is from Westchester Magazine a couple of days ago. Hit the link for the whole story and some pictures - it's a pretty cool short article.
Barstool Sports Is Helping Save Two Westchester Businesses
Unionville Tavern and Events to Remember are getting some much-needed pandemic assistance thanks to the everyman media empire’s small business fund.
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Those funds, Krueger (Unionville Tavern) says, will go directly to paying workers’ salaries and paying off a few vendors. “Our first priority is making sure our staff are taken care of.”
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Unionville Tavern isn’t the only Westchester business feeling some relief this month. Thanks to The Barstool Fun, Events to Remember, an events planning and public relations firm started by 914INC. Women in Business honoree Chereese Jervis-Hill, will also be receiving a much-needed infusion of funding.
“Running an event management firm when you are mandated by the state not to plan large in-person events … It has been a really rough 10 months, and the fund has given me a sense of relief that I have not had in almost a year,” Jervis-Hill says.
Like Krueger, Jervis-Hill will be utilizing the bulk of the funds to pay her staff and cover office rent. “I am full of gratitude for Dave, his team, and all of the donors,” she says.
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