The “2015 tax season” finished up this week. Our partners in California did nearly 2,000 screenings with folks who visited low income tax assistance (VITA) sites in CA. These sites do great work helping families avoid the (sometimes usurious) fees that tax preparers charge for ‘rapid refund’ checks. Nice...

Melanie Lavelle and Dan Beeby presented Benefit Kitchen to 700+ NYTM members on Tuesday January 5, 2016. The crowd was very supportive and the positive feedback we received was overwhelming. Thanks so much to the NYTM crew for putting on such a wonderful event! Until the edited video is...

On Wednesday December 2, BigApps NYC chose Benefit Kitchen as the grand prize winner in the category of civic engagement. According to NYC EDC “NYC BigApps 2015 asks entrants to make the city a better place for all New Yorkers by addressing four issues identified in Mayor de Blasio’s...

Here’s a twelve minute presentation by Melanie Lavelle at the June 2, 2015 New York Tech Meetup at Bloomberg News. (or view the video on YouTube) Many thanks to the folks at Bloomberg who recorded and produced the video. The full session (and the five other presenters that evening) can be...

Melanie Lavelle will present at the New York Tech Meetup, Women in Tech event tomorrow, June 2nd 2015, at Bloomberg. https://nytm.tumblr.com/

If you want internet, you might need to get cable (at least that’s the case in Brooklyn). If you’re confused by your cable bill, it is not just YOU! Confusion is the name of the game when it comes to profits for cable companies. Below are some tips to try to...

The Kaiser Family foundation has released an excellent ACA screening tool, which can be embedded into any website. See an example of how this tool can be embedded into your own site on this page (we’ve embedded the KFF tool into a Benefit Kitchen page). More information can be found on the...