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“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.”

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

“Windustry accomplishments when you enter "community wind" in an internet search engine, windustry comes up as near the top of the list because of our renowned community wind toolbox, our wind project calculator, up-to-date news and resources on community ownership of wind energy and extensive case studies on community wind projects. The windustry.org website delivers information to over 250,000 unique visitors annually with an average of 1,000 web visits daily. Engagement, consideration and acceptance on wind policy windustry worked with the national renewable engery lab on the final year of a 3-year plus contract from the us department of energy for a regional wind resource center for the midwest region. The midwest wind energy center (mwec) serves the following states: illinois, indiana, 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, windustry worked with the northern cheyenne tribal community in eastern montana to get technical assistance and information on with energy measurement to get a met tower in place. The wind resource data would be owned by the northern cheyenne tribal community to plan and develop a wind project on their reservation. Community organizing windustry prepared to launch a new website thesolaralliance.org for 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 education and outreach highlights for the year included windustry's renewable energy outreach and education event the annual wind energy center in the ecoexperience at the minnesota 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. 2018 is the 13th year of the wind energy center, inspiring visitors to actively support and participate in small, midsize, and large wind energy development in minnesota. Windustry during the year produced several displays and activities which included a model mini grid with solar and wind energy connected. 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 supportive public policy for distributed renewable energy such as net metering.”