Greater Newark Conservancy Inc

“After preparation of the 990 tax return, a draft copy is emailed to the board of directors, executive director, and consulting cfo for review and approval.”

“In the annual meeting, the board members are required to sign a conflict of interest statement. When a conflict of interest is identified, the board member recuses themself from voting.”

“Executive director's salary is reviewed by the executive committee, who then recommends any salary change to the full board.”

“For all directors and officers, other than the executive director, the executive director reviews and recommends any changes. The executive committee conducts a review and comparison to market rates for the positions before setting a new salary rate.”

“The conflict of interest policy, audited financial statements, and all governing documents are kept on file and are available to the public upon written request. -”

“Greater newark conservancy is a new jersey not-for-profit organization that expands access to healthy food, environmental education, and green spaces. We provide hands-on community programs that cultivate sustainability, inspire action, and celebrate the power of nature to heal and uplift.”

“The conservancy's youth & family education program annually provides nutrition and healthy eating lessons, vegetable and fruit taste tests and school gardening lessons for 2,000 schoolchildren as part of its farm to school programming. Environmental education field trips are implemented for school groups at our judith l. Shipley urban environmental center, serving approximately 2,000 elementary school students each year. In addition, monthly healthy meal preparation demonstrations are offered in the center's teaching kitchen and classrooms. Other monthly family environmental education programming is implemented at the center's outdoor teaching gardens. Teacher professional development workshops are provided for teachers and parents, focusing on employing school gardens as outdoor teaching venues. Overall programming focuses on nutritional health and the urban environment. The combined education programs reach approximately 4,500 children and adults during the course of the year.”

“The conservancy's urban farming/community greening program annually serves about 4,000 newark residents through its family-adopted planting plots, hydroponic greenhouses that generate fresh produce, weekly mobile farm stands, monthly farmer's markets, and distributed food boxes. Through these combined activities the conservancy makes nutritious, healthy foods accessible to newark residents who live in designated food desert neighborhoods. In 2023 urban farming initiatives expanded to include a newark growers community supported agriculture (csa) food box initiative, providing several dozen local families with fresh produce every other week.”

“In 2023 the conservancy launched the coalition for healthy food in newark schools, a collective impact initiative, established to sustainably transform newark's school food system which serves 41,672 students in its 63 schools. The coalition is focused on increasing local food procurement, farm-to-school access, garden-based education, farm-to-family access, fitness education, and capacity building for school food service staff. The conservancy serves as the backbone agency for this collective impact initiative. Most recently this campaign has implemented community informational programs and the formation and strengthening of a series of student-led nutrition advisory councils in newark schools, encouraging student input on food quality issues within their respective schools, thereby impacting 2,600 students.”