Greater Newark Conservancy Inc.

“After preparation of the 990 Tax Return, a draft copy is emailed to the Board Treasurer, Executive Director, and Finance Director 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.”

“The Executive Director's salary is reviewed by the Executive Committee, who then recommends any salary change to the full board. For all other Directors, 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 promotes environmental stewardship to improve the quality of life in nj's urban areas. Founded in 1987, the conservancy has four program areas-environmental education, community greening and gardening, job training and advocacy for environmental justice.”

“The Conservancy's education program annually brings innovative, hands-on, science-based lessons and field trips to approximately 7,000 inner-city schoolchildren from Newark and its environs. Programming focuses on the urban environment and includes environmental education field trips to the Prudential Outdoor Learning Center in downtown Newark, in-class reverse field trips, living laboratory outdoor teaching gardens at Newark schools, and nutritional health lessons and activities. Since the Prudential Outdoor Learning Center opened ten years ago, it has hosted over 27,000 underserved children who have engaged in environmental field trips.”

“The Conservancy's community greening program annually serves over 2,000 Newark residents through its community gardens with resident-adopted planting plots; urban farm lots that generate fresh, local produce; and a farm stand operation that makes nutritious, healthy foods available to the inner-city population. Last growing season the program's 15 urban farms, including a 1 acre farm and a 2.5 acre farm in Newark generated over 56,000 pounds of fresh produce, bringing fresh, nutritious vegetables to 1,400 low-income residents.”

“The Conservancy's job training program includes two components - the Newark youth leadership project ("NYLP") and the clean and green transitional job training program. NYLP annually provides 60 to 70 Newark high school students with on-the-job-training in leadership development, public speaking, resume development, business skills, job readiness and green careers. The program encourages college enrollment, opening new vistas and career exploration. The clean and green program annually works with hundreds of recently incarcerated Newark residents and ex-gang affiliated members to assist them in making the transition from prison to gainful employment. Training focuses on a variety of horticultural and landscaping skills. Throughout the program, participants clean highway gateways and medians and hundreds of vacant, city-owned lots in Newark. A major emphasis has been on developing and helping to maintain the Conservancy's two larger urban farms.”

“The Conservancy's environmental justice program organizes and empowers inner-city residents to confront and overcome urban environmental issues. For many years, the program focused on various components of Newark's master planning process, seeking to interject sound environmental principles and to guide the city toward greater sustainability. More recently, the program has concentrated on seeking an environmentally sensitive cleanup of the intensively polluted lower Passaic river while minimizing the impacts on the Ironbound section of Newark.”

“Other changes in net assets amounted to $12,944 which represents the change in net present value of discount on pledges receivable.”