National Safe Place Inc.

“The ymca of greater louisville, inc. Provides contract services for national safe place. National safe place paid the ymca $823,656 in 2013 for these services.”

“The 990 will be presented to the audit committee by the external auditors. The audit committee will then present the 990 to the full board of directors prior to the form being filed.”

“The conflict of interest policy will be reviewed annually at the last meeting of the year to assure adherence to the policy.”

“The executive committee establishes the compensation of the upper management of national safe place, inc. The ceo of the ymca, provides the executive committee of the ymca, with wage data from the y-usa, urban group, and south metro group. The committee then filters thru their own experiernce and local benchmarking. The ymca executive committee makes compensation decisions for upper management in the absence of staff. All compensation decisions are documented in employees personnel files.”

“National safe place, inc. Makes its governing documents available for public inspection upon request.”

“Ymca of greater louisville, inc. - 545 south second street, louisville, ky 40202. Steve tarver - 545 south second street, louisville, ky 40202. Kay manning - 545 south second street, louisville, ky 40202.”

“The national safe place volunteer board of directors has the authority to define strategic direction, set annual goals, establish general operating policy, and assure the financial strength of the organization. The board is responsible for overseeing the development and monitoring of the budget; monitoring the financial operations of the organization, ensuring the financial stability of national safe place by identifying potential resources and corporate partners; identifying marketing strategies to increase awareness and identifying board candidates to contribute time, treasure and talent to the organization. The following individuals are the volunteer non-voting members of the board of directors: howard "skip" elliott (jacksonville, fl) j. Barry barker (louisville, ky) james braum (st. Charles, mo) gary colen (boston, ma) joe diamond (chicago, il) gina digioia (new york, ny) michael fitz (leesburg, va) debra friggel (tulsa, ok) adam jonas (new york, ny) ginny mccormick (newton, ma) jime pearce (gainesville, fl) doug watson (pinecrest, fl) gayle watts (birmingham, al) michelle sahagun (reno, nv)”

“National safe place merged with another organization in june 2013. This brought additional members and membership benefits to the organization. Benefits include training, facilitation and planning support, grant reviewing services, etc.”

“The audit is completed by a third party and provided to an audit committee for review. The committee then discusses the audit on a conference call with the preparers of the audit, the executive director and the cfo of the ymca. The executive director leaves the call so that any comments or concerns can be disclosed. The audit is then forwarded to the national safe place board for approval, after which it is approved by the ymca board.”