Minority woman-owned Pavilion on the Terrace makes events SO AMAZING!

Posted on July 11, 2022October 28, 2022 by prints4u

Our next featured Minority & Women Owned Business Enterprise is Pavilion on the Terrace. Owner Kecia Weaver was already running a law practice when she took on the task of transforming one of the last remaining Greek Revival mansions, on Staten Island’s North Shore, into a premier event venue. Over six years, Kecia painstakingly renovated the Pavilion to its former glory and prestige. Pavilion hosts weddings, anniversaries, retirement parties, Sweet 16s, quinceañeras, Bar / Bat Mitzva...

Rossana Russo keeps Lunella’s a family-run, autentico affair

Posted on July 5, 2022October 28, 2022 by prints4u

Ready for date night? Ready for Little Italy, fritto di calamari, homemade gnocchi, and the perfect espresso to pick you back up? Well, you can satisfy that with a woman-owned business – Lunella Ristorante Italiano. Restaurateur Rossana Russo’s Italian immigrant family has owned and operated various restaurants on Mulberry Street for generations. Lunella’s is located on a narrow block of Nolita (North Little Italy) that evokes old times. There’s the reassuring 1950s-style moon o...

Metropolitan Music Community performs, with a social conscience

Posted on June 27, 2022October 28, 2022 by prints4u

The Metropolitan Music Community (MMC) had Benchmark print their 2021 Winter Concert program. MMC provides adult instrumentalists the opportunity to make music in a friendly setting and share it with the public. The program brims with socially conscious themes: George Floyd, music from marginalized parts of the world, and more. “Unspoken,” the first piece, recognizes George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, the largest U.S. protest movement ever, even larger than the one surrounding the Vi...

Xavier Mission provides basic needs, services and empowerment programs for New Yorkers in need

Posted on June 20, 2022October 28, 2022 by prints4u

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere. More about Benchmark's support for the Sustainable Development Goals. “In a world of plenty, hunger kills over 2.1 million people each year at a minimum. This is one of the ways in which poverty kills, and it is faced by billions of ordinary people all over the world each day. In every country, the poorest people live shorter lives and face earlier deaths than those who are not poor.” (Inequality Kills, Oxfam, 2022) This certainly applies...

In NYC’s ailing estuary, Billion Oyster Project restoring obliterated oyster population

Posted on June 13, 2022October 28, 2022 by prints4u

A Billion Oyster Project participant shows a colony of orange sheath tunicates, a type of sea squirt that they often find at their Oyster Research Stations. Benchmark customer Billion Oyster Project is on a mission to restore the murky New York Harbor one oyster at a time. A single one of these humble mollusks has the power to filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. On top of that, we hurricane-worn New Yorkers should be interested to know that establishing oyster reefs forms a natural st...

Green Top Farms links local ag to school meals and deals with pandemic hunger

Posted on June 6, 2022October 28, 2022 by prints4u

During the pandemic, many Benchmark customers scaled down their production in 2020. For Al Raddock at Green Top Farms, it was the opposite. Their food distribution of local, seasonal ingredients ramped up in the face of expanding food insecurity. Working families' livelihoods evaporated for lack of a public health system strong enough to prevent disease outbreak and to take swift, unified action at critical times. In schools, Green Top Farms provides food that me...

Wide Rainbow widens youngsters’ cultural horizons, fills food insecurity gaps

Posted on May 30, 2022October 28, 2022 by prints4u

Wide Rainbow is a contemporary art after-school program who had Benchmark print stickers for packaging their after-school snacks. They are a free, 501(c)(3) non-profit based in NYC that connects contemporary artists with the community. They serve low-income neighborhoods with limited or no access to the arts or arts education. Wide Rainbow take some of their folks along with Avenues for Justice to Nicola Vassell Gallery to visit artist Frida Orupabo’s exhibition “Closed Up Like A Fist....

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10:27 01 Jun 20

Top-notch printing and service. We've been using Benchmark for many years.

Felicia Mitchell

23:22 30 Jan 20

I happened to find this printing company Thursday night walking back to our hotel. As a woman business owner, I wanted to support this woman minority owned small business. I contacted them the next day and spoke to Elizabeth, who was fantastic. I had ordered cards from Vistaprint but they weren’t due to arrive until 2/5. I really wanted some on hand now and saw this as a great way to get some cards made sooner, rather than later. I sent my file over and Elizabeth told me they’d be ready Saturday. She walked me through bleed and how the cards would be cut, as well as offered her professional recommendation on the type of paper to offer the best result when I inquired. The price was very reasonable for that quick turnaround. To my surprise she emailed me to say the cards were ready that afternoon but we were out and I didn’t see it. When I replied she was sweet enough to drop them off at my hotel but I didn’t see that until much later and by then she’d left for the day. I picked them up the next day and am very pleased with the end result. I’d definitely use them again!

Beatriz Gutierrez

08:03 21 Dec 19

Ive been printing the labels for botH of my small businesses for almost 3 years and have been very satisfied and completely happy with the work from Benchmark. Maria is professional and our orders are handled efficiently, perfectly, and always delivered in a timely matter every time we order. Could not recommend highly enough.

Mike Arauz

16:48 20 Dec 19

Always, friendly and fast. A great company! I highly recommend.

Neil Wu

20:47 11 Dec 19

As the manager of special events at the Museum of Chinese in America, I worked closely with Maria from Benchmark to produce our annual legacy awards Gaga invitations. We were impressed by the printed invites and enjoyed our collaborative relationship. We will certainly work with them again for future events!

Janelle Jones

17:30 01 Nov 19

Excellent printer...Maria and her staff are kind, helpful, and professional. Very reasonable prices and I'm always happy with the final result. Also, they are locally-owned and woman-owned!