Employer
Help give your employees somewhere trustworthy to turn without building and administering a private fund.
Choose this pathFounding coalition kit
Build the network.
Protect the people.
Hospitality Relief Network is being built so hotel and restaurant employees have somewhere trustworthy to turn after a house fire, medical emergency, domestic violence, family loss or another sudden crisis. This kit shows the role each founding participant can play.
Help comes first. Trust protects it.HRN is bringing together employers, vendors, charitable organizations and experienced advisers before accepting donations or relief applications.
Start here
One mission, with a clear and meaningful role for every participant.
Start with the people this network is being built to help, then open the material written for your organization. Every inquiry is nonbinding and creates no donation, pledge, endorsement or financial obligation.
Sponsor
Explore how your company can give back by helping make private, dependable support possible for hospitality workers.
Choose this pathCharitable administrator
Explore whether your organization can help carry this mission and become the trusted charitable home hospitality workers need.
Choose this pathRelief partner
Help workers reach the right source of care without confusion, unsafe referrals or another dead end.
Choose this pathAdviser
Use focused professional expertise to help build a safe, fair and lasting path to emergency help.
Choose this pathIndustry network
Help members shape access to employee support they could not reasonably build alone.
Choose this pathOnline planning library
Executive materials that can be opened, shared, printed or saved as PDF.
These are planning documents, not fundraising materials or executed agreements. They are designed to move the right conversations forward while the legal and charitable structure is still being evaluated.
Planning document
Executive overview
The case, proposed structure and controlled path to a national hotel and restaurant employee-relief pilot.
Open documentHospitality executives, charitable organizations, advisers and industry partners
Planning document
Employer pilot brief
A nonbinding framework for employers willing to help design and evaluate an HRN pilot.
Open documentHotel management companies, ownership groups, restaurant groups, franchisees and independent operators
Planning document
Vendor underwriting brief
A future opportunity to give back to the hotels, restaurants and people who help make the hospitality vendor community successful.
Open documentHospitality suppliers, technology providers, professional-services firms and corporate foundations
Planning document
Fiscal sponsor and charitable administrator RFI
An invitation to help create the trusted charitable home hotel and restaurant workers need during a sudden crisis.
Open documentPublic charities and specialized employee-relief administrators
Planning document
Relief-organization collaboration brief
A collaboration-first framework intended to extend coverage without duplicating credible work.
Open documentHospitality relief funds, worker-support nonprofits and referral organizations
Planning document
Founding advisory council brief
A time-limited planning role focused on pressure-testing the model before launch.
Open documentQualified nonprofit, legal, accounting, HR, payroll, privacy and hospitality professionals
Planning document
Launch-readiness framework
The conditions HRN expects to satisfy before accepting donations or relief applications.
Open documentAll founding-coalition participants
From good intention to trusted help
Bring the right people together, build the protections and open only when workers can depend on us.
The coalition is building a responsible path to help without routing money through HRN, InnBrief or Michael Storm during the planning stage.
- Listen to employers and workersUnderstand who needs access, what crises threaten stability and how help must fit real hotel and restaurant operations.
- Find the right charitable homeChoose an organization with the compassion, experience and authority to protect funds, privacy and fair decisions.
- Invite vendors to give backDevelop approved support for the caring people, secure systems and accountability that keep employee gifts focused on help.
- Protect the promiseApprove eligibility, privacy, agreements, budget, launch scope and clear measures of the help delivered.
- Open when people can trust itDonations and applications begin only after the responsible charitable organization confirms the program is ready.
Planning tools
Put scale behind the conversation without turning an estimate into a promise.
The coalition modeler shows what small employee contributions and an employer match could produce across a defined pilot. It also separates the relief pool from the operating-cost question vendors may eventually underwrite.
Open the planning modelTrust guardrails
What this website will not do during planning.
- Accept donations, pledges or payroll deductions.
- Represent HRN as a 501(c)(3), foundation or approved charity.
- Collect hardship applications, medical records or financial documents.
- Promise tax deductibility, grant eligibility or sponsor benefits.
- Give employers or vendors influence over individual grant decisions.
Due-diligence references
The operating model starts with published charitable guidance.
These references do not replace counsel or approval by the future charitable administrator. They identify core issues the coalition must resolve before fundraising or grant-making begins.
Employee assistance
Objective need and independent selection safeguards are central when charitable assistance is limited to employees.
IRS guidanceCharitable class
The potential beneficiary group must be sufficiently large or indefinite rather than a preselected list.
IRS guidanceSponsor acknowledgment
Name and logo recognition must be distinguished from advertising, endorsements and substantial return benefits.
IRS guidanceFiscal sponsorship
A written relationship should establish charitable control, administration, responsibilities and project boundaries.
National Council of NonprofitsFounding conversation
Help turn hospitality's care for people into somewhere they can actually turn.
Tell us where your organization fits. You will receive the relevant material immediately, and the planning team will review your inquiry personally.