Cobscook Community Learning Center

“The 990 is forwarded to the Board Chair upon request for review, signature and mailing. It is then copied and distributed to the Finance Manager and the Board.”

“The Co-Directors salaries are voted on by the Board of Directors after consultation with outside resources. Compensation of other employees was benchedmarked against Maine non-profit organizations aggregated data analysis by Maine Association of Non-profits and other resources.”

“Available upon request and on the organizations website at https//cobscookinstitute.org/transparency”

“Board and staff are required to disclose interests that may become a conflict of interest at their Annual Review and are required to sign a Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement and the Conflict of Interest Policy annually.”

“E-Rate Consultant 1,161 - Development Consultants 66,686 - Grant Writing Consultant 17,485 - Custodial Services 975 - Strategic Planning Consultant 5,000 - Board Self-Assessment Consultant 1,500 - Renovation Consultant 1,743 - Finance Consultant 3,303 - Program Director Consultant 12,897”

“The mission of Cobscook Community Learning Center is to create responsive educational opportunities that strengthen personal, community and global wellbeing. We do this through an experiential public high school program, intergenerational community programming, a community and retreat center, and through facilitating transformative community development initiatives. Through accessible placed-based education, the arts, and community development, Cobscook fills essential gaps in public offerings, contributes to the regions resilience, collaborates to facilitate deep systems change, and improves the quality of life, health outcomes, and wellness of the people who live in the rural three-nation region of Cobscook Bay. Finally, this local work contributes to larger systemic change through partnerships with other community-based initiatives around the globe.”

“The Scholarship and Access Funds facilitate sliding scale programming in a solidarity economy framework, reducing the barrier to participation for people from Cobscook Bay region/Passamaquoddy homeland. This community funding model creates a way for community members to share so that everyone gets what they need. Participants choose how they engage with the sliding scale if they have fewer financial resources, they wont miss out on opportunities if they have more, they can share that abundance with neighbors and know that its making a difference. TREE Trauma Responsive Equitable Education is a collaborative, place-based response to the educational challenges that often face rural schools and communities, especially those in high-poverty areas. TREE aims to foster resilience and improve the well-being of young people, their families, and communities, by addressing the predictable and recurring barriers to healthy youth development and engaged learning that exist in high poverty rural schools. Through facilitating research-practice partnerships, TREE contributes to learning and systems change not only for the Cobscook region, but for rural communities around the country and globe.”