Our Team

Jenny Kassan

Founder

Jenny has over 25 years of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises.  She has helped her clients raise millions of dollars from values-aligned investors and raised over $2 million for her own businesses.

She is the author of Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul (Berrett-Koehler, October 2017).

Jenny earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and a masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jenny co-founded the Force for Good Fund, an impact investment fund managed by Community Ventures, a nonprofit organization that Jenny founded in 2008.  She also co-founded Crowdfund Mainstreet, a licensed portal for Regulation Crowdfunding.  Most recently she co-founded Opportunity Main Street, an impact investment fund that owns a mixed-use building in Baltimore which serves as a hub for supporting under-represented entrepreneurs and providing education about community-based investing.

Jenny’s legal practice, The Kassan Group, provides legal services, coaching, and consulting for mission-driven companies, investors, and intermediaries and includes educational programs for entrepreneurs (the Capital on Your Terms program) and investors of all levels of wealth and income (Angels of Main Street).

Jenny served on the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. She submitted the petition to the SEC that led to the passage of the 2012 JOBS Act and was present at the White House signing ceremony.

Before becoming a securities lawyer, Jenny worked for eleven years at a nonprofit community development corporation in Oakland called the Unity Council, where she served as staff attorney and managed community economic development projects including a $100 million transit-oriented development project and the formation and management of several social ventures designed to employ and create business ownership opportunities for low-income community residents.

Jenny co-founded the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a nonprofit that provides legal information to support sustainable economies.  Jenny is also a fellow at Democracy Collaborative.  She is on the board of directors for CfPA (Crowdfunding Professional Association) and formerly served as a director of Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Jenny is certified as a coach by the International Association of Women in Coaching.  In 2020 she was named to the list of World-Changing Women in Conscious Business by SOCAP Global.

Marin Dell

Attorney

Marin Dell has been a member of the California Bar since 2003 and has been on the law faculty, and an adjunct faculty member, of several US law schools for the past 15 years. She has an LLM in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin School of Law and graduated from California Western School of Law with honors.

Logan Yonavjak

Consultant, Investor Relations

Logan Yonavjak is a financial services professional, social entrepreneur, author, and angel investor. Her work in financial services involves researching, developing, and advising on ways to channel capital into impactful investments across public and private markets. Logan has worked with venture capital firms, private equity firms, endowments, private wealth firms, and family offices. She has also developed new financial models and tools, particularly focused on land conservation and restoration, and has written extensively about how to invest for people, planet, and profit. She also advises a variety of impact-oriented startups, on both raising capital and reporting impact metrics. Logan holds a Master of Forestry from the Yale School of the Environment and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. She also holds a B.A. with Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.