The Foundation for Enhancing Communities

“The foundation's irs form 990 is sent to the directors and officers electronically prior to sending it to the irs. The foundation's board of directors has delegated to the audit committee the responsibility to review, in detail, the foundation's irs form 990 either before or after filing with the internal revenue service.”

“All directors, officers, employees and standing committee members, including regional foundation directors, are required to file annual disclosure statements. Those directors having affiliations with grantee organizations as shown on the current list of conflicts developed from the disclosure statements are noted as abstaining from votes on grants to those organizations. The foundation maintains a chart that includes all affiliations to provide easy access to the information when needed.”

“A consultant prepares a compensation report for the personnel committee. The executive committee prepares an overview of the professional goals for the year. Annual compensation is given based on information in the compensation report and professional goal report.”

“The conflict of interest policy is in the foundation's by-laws at article xiii, in the relationship with applicants section of the employee handbook, and in policy statements adopted by the board of directors. The foundation's governing document, by-laws, articles of incorporation, and policy statements are available upon request from the foundation's president. The foundation distributes an annual report, which contains financial information, and its financial statements to donors, fundholders and interested persons.”

“The foundation provides administrative support, financial management, and grants management for over 700 funds of the foundation. Grants are authorized and paid to other nonprofit organizations in accordance with donor restrictions and foundation approval in the local region and elsewhere in the united states in the areas of education, health and human services, the arts, community development and the environment with the approval of the grant committee and the board of the foundation. Tfec monitors grant compliance to evaluate the key impact of each grant funded program. Each grantee of discretionary grants is required to report all achieved outcomes at the six month, twelve month, and in some cases two year periods. Tfec synthesizes these results into a community impact report to evaluate the return on the philanthropic investment in our local communities as well as for the projects and special initiatives within the foundation's grant-making overall. The program department provides technical assistance to all nonprofit organizations that request it to prepare them for the grant application process.”

“Harrisburg smiles originated in 2008 out of the access to care committee of the harrisburg area dental society (hads). Volunteer hads member dentists wanted to do more in the community for the underserved and many of the dentists were already giving free care to the needy in their dental offices, but there was no tracking or monitoring of what exactly the services were that were being donated. Dr. Andrew gould formed a coalition of partners that eventually became harrisburg smiles. Smiles serves patients in dauphin, cumberland, and perry counties and their mission is to work cooperatively with social service organizations to provide a conduit of care for the underserved dental populations and help match their urgent dental needs with the available resources in our dental community. Their newest project was to re-activate the dental facility in downey elementary school in harrisburg to serve students with immediate evaluation of their dental health, to provide basic dental services in the school and to teach students about the importance of good oral health. The downey school project has been funded by pnc bank, pennsylvania dental society, delta dental of california, the harrisburg area dental society, highmark blue shield, and united concordia. Smiles is a project of the foundation for enhancing communities, fiscal sponsor.”

“Alpaca fiber designs (afd), an innovative environmentally friendly felting business opened its doors in february 2014. A project sponsored by the foundation for enhancing communities and supported by ucp of central pennsylvania and in collaboration with bent pine alpaca farm, alpaca fiber designs was created to employ individuals with disabilities and non-disabled employees. Throughout the united states, customized employment is the desired work outcome for people with disabilities. Using customized employment techniques, jobs are matched to an individual's interest, skills and strengths. Customized employment helps businesses and communities and gives the individual the ability to pursue meaningful productive work in their field of interest. Afd is a perfect match for individuals who have a passion for working with animals; especially alpacas. Alpaca fiber design creates high quality green products and serves as a business model for persons with disabilities nationwide. Afd offers about 30 hand-made products including notebook and tablet covers, scarves, wine cozies, blankets, scarves and many more items while also providing meaningful work for its employees.”

“In accordance with reg. 1.170a-9(e)(11) of the internal revenue code, the foundation for enhancing communities (formerly known as the greater harrisburg foundation) (ein 01-0564355) and ghf, inc. (ein 22-2436382) have herein been reported as a single entity. Formerly, ghf, inc., although a component part of the foundation for enhancing communities, had filed separately under its own ein. Effective with the filing of the information return for the year ended december 31, 2000, a single filing is made. Tfec properties, inc. Has no income and no assets.”