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Rachel Schneider: Co-founder & CEOPast Role: Financial Health Network, Senior Vice President
Canary is a financial services company that raises and distributes funding to assist people who are struggling financially so that impact lab can carry out research, influence policy formation, and try out new ways to enhance financial health.
Grant Circle, their grant-making platform, allows employees to receive grant money when they face an
unexpected, unavoidable emergency that causes financial hardship. Most of the time, these difficulties have an impact on an individual's ability to afford basic living expenses such as a mortgage or rent, utilities, and food. To date, Canary has collaborated with organizations such as Visionworks, Clear Channel Outdoor, Harvard Business Publishing, and others to provide employees in financial distress with access to emergency grants.
Canary was founded in 2021 and is based New York.