Campus Pride Inc

“Campus Pride Board of Directors approved Team Acacia with a one year public relations contract. The amount of the contract is at or below current market rate for such services. The co-owner of Team Acacia is the chairperson of the Campus Pride Board of Directors.”

“Executive Board receives draft copy of the 990, shares with Board, gives any necessary input or changes. Executive Director files the 990 after review.”

“Measures are in place to determine if a conflict of interest exists, the procedures for addressing the conflict of interest and the consequences for a violation of the conflicts of interest policy.The contract agreement with Stargayzer, Inc was approved by the Board of Directors without the Executive Director Shane Windmeyer, who is a non-voting ex officio member, present due to their conflict of interest. The contract agreement with Team Acacia was approved by the Board of Directors without the Chair Tom Elliott present and not voting due to their conflict of interest. The Board obtained and relied upon data as to comparability prior to approving the agreement with Stargayzer, Inc and Team Acacia, and the Board documented the basis for its determination concurrent with the vote to approve the agreement.”

“The Executive Director and Executive Board jointly compile comparable salaries; the board of directors vote upon a salary at each years budget review/approval and use those comps as a guide.”

“Other national salaries of similar job functions and size of org were researched. Our staff are significantly uder that average.”

“Form 990 is made available for public inspection by posting on our website and also upon request.”

“Available upon request.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Safe Space & Stop the Hate Trainings: Campus Pride regularly offers two trainings Stop the Hate Bias & Hate Crime Prevention training and the Safe Space training for college campuses. These are offered in various formats depending on the educational goals. The trainings were mostly offered online in 2022 due to COVID-19 safety concerns; however, the organization did conduct several trainings in-person.. The Stop The Hate Trainings are focused on preventing and combating hate on campus as well as fostering the development of community. The only one of its kind for college campuses, the train the trainer program has more than 8000 individuals trained to date in the United States. The Campus Pride Safe Space Program is a nationally recognized program that provides training and signage for institutions committed to supporting LGBTQ students. A Safe Space program is one of the measures of a supportive LGBTQ-friendly campus on the Campus Pride Index. In 2022, Campus Pride trained 2500+ individuals online in two hour Safe Space trainings from across the country. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Campus Pride Index, Campus Pride Sports Index & National College Fair Program:The Campus Pride National College Fair Program is the only one of its kind; however, due to COVID-19 Campus Pride was not able to have in-person college fairs. For over a decade, the fair program has supported thousands of LGBTQ youth including first generation, low socio-economic youth and under-represented youth of color and, or trans youth, in providing access to higher education and to find LGBTQ-friendly campuses, testing services and scholarships. Instead we focused on online resources including the Campus Pride Index (www.CampusPrideIndex.org) which is designed for addressing the concerns of LGBTQ and ally students when it comes to academics, student life and campus safety. The award-winning Campus Pride Index was overhauled in 2015 with new LGBTQ-friendly benchmarks. The Index, and the Campus Pride Sports Index - it's counterpart for intercollegiate athletics and recreational sports, provide a free dynamic, online listing of LGBTQ-Friendly colleges and universities and a detailed synopsis of their LGBTQ policies, programs and practices. Anyone may search these resources for free and use these tools to find LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities.”