Windustry

“A copy of the form 990 is provided to the entire board of directors for review and approval prior to filing.”

“All employees are provided with a copy of the conflict of interest policy when hired and must sign a form stating that they have read the policy. Employees and board members must review the policy annually and sign a form stating that they will comply with the policy.”

“The executive director's salary is reviewed annually by the board of directors. Her salary is reviewed based on merit and compared to the current cola and the most recent minnesota nonprofit salary and benefits survey to determine appropriate pay adjustment, if any.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request.”

“Updated form 990 part iii 4a.”

“The organization's mission is to promote sustainable energy solutions and empower communities to develop and own clean energy assets. As an independnt voice acting in support of communities, we work through education, outreach, and advocacy to advance broad community ownersheip of renewable energy.”

“Center for the midwest region. The midwest wind energy center (mwec) serves the following states: illinois, indianan, iowa, michigan, minnesota, missouri, eastern montana, north dakota, ohio, south dakota, and wisconsin. Windustry is mwec's lead orgainizer with key partners in iowa and minnesota. Mwec has advisory organizations in all 11 states. The mwec partners identified strategies and priority activities that include wind energy policy research and creating more opportunities of engagement and consideration for key stakeholders and decision makers in the midwest region. A few highlighted- accomplishments include: intiatives to make permitting and siting easier for distributed wind; researched and presented on jobs and economic development for several of the states in the mwec region; and participated in regulatory proceedings in iowa and minnesota. Also, continue to maintain the website for mwec and an online wind library for information wind resources that may be of particular interest to the midwest market. Community organizing windustry started researach and convening meetings on a solar project called solar along the greenline. Windustry organized meetings with the innovative power systems, metro transit representatives and with xcel energy. This is a multi-year effort. Education and outreach windustry's renewable energy outreach and education event highlights for 2016 included speaking at the mn farmers union annual members meeting, the maker fair in ann arbor, mi and our annual wind energy center in the ecoexperience at the mn state fair. The wind energy center is an interactive, museum-quality display within the eco experience at the minnesota state fair, in partnership with the minnesota pollution control agency. Developed and produced by windustry and partners, it teaches hundreds of thousands of visitors each year about our great wind resource and how wind energy can provide both environmental and economic benefits to minnesotans. 2016 is the 11th year of the wind energy center, inspiring visitors to actively support and participate in small, midsize, and wind energy development in minnesota. Windustry produced several new displays and activities in 2016 which included citizen wind-scientist challenges, maps, and our campaign stickwindhere. The interactive exhibit stations were designed to teach visitors about wind energy basics through engaging, hands-on activities such as blade design, siting for wind and the supportive public policy, net metering. The goal of the stickwindhere campaign is to expand the discourse and raise awareness of wind energy from almost exclusively large multi-national corporate-owned wind farms to include community-based models. Visitors to the wind energy center can watch our videos, take a photo "sticking wind" on our landscape backdrop, use the hashtag stickwindhere, and practice siting skills using a model wind farm.”