Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts

“The executive director and senior director of finance and operations reviewed the 990 prior to being filed and copies are sent to each trustee prior to filing.”

“The board has established a conflict of interest policy. Each year, the president distributes a new conflict of interest disclosure to be signed, by/to every interested party. The purpose of the policy is to prohibit business transactions between members of the board or staff and the center. The executive director and the controller are required to bring any such conflicts, or the suspicion of such conflicts, to the attention of the president. The president consults with senior staff to enforce the policy, and to also determine that the center has had no financial or business transaction with a member of its board or staff. When the president is satisfied that there have been no such transactions, or that any such transaction has been properly reviewed and approved by the board, he then affirms, in an annual signed affidavit, that there are no conflicts of interest. The policy is carried out through continuing surveillance by the president and officers and they affirm the absence of conflicts annually. An interested person may make a presentation at the governing board or committee meeting, but after the presentation, he/she shall leave the meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, the transaction or arrangement involving the possible conflict of interest. The board determines if the proposal is advantageous. If so, they will determine whether a more advantageous transaction or arrangement would be possible without a conflict of interest. If not, the board would vote on whether the proposal should be carried out.”

“Compensation is determined by a review of similar organizations. The review for the compensation of the executive director and other highly compensated employees was performed at the end of 2016 for fiscal year 2017.”

“These documents are available upon request. Financial statements are also available on dun and bradstreet's website.”

“Usdan summer camp for the arts is a premier arts summer camp for children in the new york metropolitan area. Diverse and playfully rigorous, for over fifty years usdan has brought world-class teachers and visiting artists - actors, directors, playwrights, painters, sculptors, musicians, composers, dancers, poets, and novelists - to teach and collaborate with our campers ages 4 to 18. Our arts summer camp is set on an idyllic 140-acre woodland campus in long island, dotted with open-air studios and performance spaces designed to inspire creativity, collaboration, and experimentation. Campers choose to "major and "minor" in classic artistic disciplines such as painting, music, theater, or dance, or in new-media fields like photography for social media and video-game design. The usdan experience is unique among arts summer camps around nyc, as it brings together the rigor of artistic practice and the playfulness of a classic summer camp, with places to swim, play sports, and practice yoga and archery.”

“The process has not changed from the prior year.”