A Little More Help, Inc.

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Our beginning

The founders of A Little More Help, Inc. have one thing in common, a heart for service. The board is currently made up of the three founders, Corinne Bilyayev, Rusty Black, and Akeem Richard. They all live in the greater Pensacola, Florida area, and they met while volunteering with other organizations. Corinne had long thought of starting a nonprofit for local relief efforts in the Florida panhandle, and after Russia invaded her husband Kostyantyn’s native Ukraine, it was clear that the time had come to start not only a local project, but an international effort. On the heels of a very successful online fundraiser for Ukraine and with an immediate green light from Rusty and Akeem, A Little More Help, Inc. was born in the spring of 2022.

Our Pensacola/Ukraine connection

While in the US, Corinne’s husband Kostyantyn had been the president of Pro Development, Inc. and was a property developer in downtown Pensacola for several years, building and renovating 24 houses. However, he was living in Ukraine at the time of the Russian invasion because he had returned to take care of his elderly parents. On the first day of the war, he quickly took the family to safety in western Ukraine, and with his network there he was able to start distributing the money and humanitarian aid we raised through known, trusted contacts. While much international aid is stolen, diverted and resold for profit, and never reaches its intended destination, Kostyantyn was able to use small scale, trustworthy networks to confirm that aid reached the people who needed it even in areas where more established organizations were unable to help.

Our future

A Little More Help, Inc. relies on this agile model of aid distribution using known partners, private channels, and established hyper-local organizations. In this way, your contributions are often confirmed with personal photos and teary, grateful phone calls rather than form letters or impersonal receipts. Our immediate fundraising focus is for war victims in Ukraine, but we also have the needs of our local community in mind as we plan our long-term goals.

Our status as a non-profit

The IRS officially recognized us as a 501(c)(3) in August 2022.