Maine Share

“The form 990 is prepared by our independent auditors, and then reveiwed by the executive director and made available to all board members prior to filing.”

“Each year we require our board of directors to sign a conflict of interest policy disclosure. Officers, directors, board members and key employees are required to disclose any relationships that are contrary to our policy.”

“All salaries are reviewed annually. The executive committee reviews the executive director's current compensation, taking into consideration length of service, recent performance evaluation and budgetary constraints. The executive committee then makes a recommendation to the board about the executive director's compensatation for the next fiscal year.”

“The executive director reviews the compensation of all other staff, taking into consideration length of service, recent performance evaluations and budgetary constraints, and then makes a recommendation to the board of directors about the compensation of all other staff.”

“We post our financial statements and tax return on our website. Guidestar carries a copy of our 990 tax filings and we make all of these documents available upon request. We will send hardcopies if required.”

“Through december 31, 2015 the organization's practice was to record pledges receivable offset by corresponding amounts due to designated charities (pledges payable) for both its own campaigns as well as for the msecca campaign. During the year ended december 31, 2016 it was determined that a more appropriate treatment was to record such pledges receivable and offsetting liabilities for the organization's own campaigns, but not for those administered for msecca, as the underlying commitments made by the msecca donors were to msecca, and not to maineshare. Accordingly, for 2016, pledges receivable (and the corresponding amounts to due to designated charities) relate only to the organization's own campaigns.”

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