American Camping Association Inc. New England Section

“Membership shall be open to all persons without regard to age, race, color, religon, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry or physical disability who are memebers of the american camping association, who choose to be affiliated with the american camp association, new england, and who are willing to abide by the articles of incorporation, by-laws and ethical statements of the association.”

“Each member is entitled to one vote with respect to the election of officers, board of directors, board stewardship committee, ammendments to the by-laws and other matters as may be submitted for vote by the board of directors.”

“The association's form 990 is prepared by its certified public accountants. A draft of the 990 is submitted to management for review and discussion. Once accepted by management the draft form 990 is submitted to the finance committee for review and approval. Once approved, the final form 990 is submitted to the appropriate board official for signature and filing. A final signed copy of the form 990 is distributed to all members of the board of directors.”

“Board members and staff are required to fill out the "conflict of interest disclosure statement" annually. This disclosure is part of personnel policies.”

“The association's audited financial statements and federal and state corporate tax returns are made publicly available on the commonwealth of massachusetts' department of attorney general's website free of charge. The form 990 is available on publicly available web sites as well.”

“The association's governing documents are available upon request at the association's corporate offices during regular business hours.”

“The orgranization meets the 33 1/3% support test of the regulations under section 170(b)(1)(vi). Accordingly the organization has to report information on ly for contributors whose gifts are $5,000 or over and are more than 2% of the total gifts that the organization recieved during the year.”