Read and Feed

“The treasurer, in conjunction with the finance committee, will provide review and oversight responsibilities of the irs form 990 prepared by the organizations external tax preparer. The finance committee is responsible for verifying the form 990 for accuracy and completeness before submission of the filing. Upon approval of the irs form 990 by the finance committee, the executive director will sign the form 990. A copy of the form 990 will be distributed to the board prior to filing. The original signed copy of the form 990 will be filed with the irs once approved and distribution to the board has occurred.”

“The conflict of interest policy is monitored by the board secretary and reviewed and signed at the beginning of each fiscal year by all staff and board members with significant decisionmaking authority. It is each signators obligation to disclose any potential conflict as soon as it is known, or reasonably should be known.”

“The executive directors salary level was independently reviewed by the board of directors to ensure it does not exceed comparable levels of compensation for nonprofit directors in this region of the country. Salary data for executives of organizations of a similar size and mission were examined in developing a compensation package that was recommended and approved by the board of directors, and documented in the meeting minutes.”

“The three most recent form 990s (including financial information), the bylaws, articles of incorporation, form 1023 application for exemption, and conflict of interest policy are provided to the public upon request.”

“With three mobile classrooms and dozens of partnerships with wcpss, other nonprofit and community organizations, read and feed provided high impact tutoring for 355 children during the academic year and 1,188 students with large scale book distributions across summer sites to help reduce summer learning loss. The organization provided nutritious meals and healthy snacks, reading tutoring and age appropriate books at no charge to all of the children attending the program. There were 23,391 books distributed through our program, helping to build home libraries for many children. Our volunteers devoted 6,095 hours tutoring students at 24 program sites. Read and feed also had 516 tutoring sessions conducted for 4,918 hours instruction, 358 school supply bags issued, 8,875 meals distributed, and 8,340 healthy snacks consumed by students attending tutoring sessions.”