Rural Education and Development Inc.

“The board may, by resolution, designate and appoint board committees as it considers necessary for the operation or administration of the corporation. These committees, to the extent provided in said resolution shall have and exercise the authority of the board in the management of the corporation.”

“Dr. Antonia neubauer and melissa anderson - family relationship. The organization also paid $1,000 to a company owned by a board member (carey bohjanen) as a reduced fee for a training program attended by the executive director.”

“Megan volk managed asia based programs.”

“The form 990 is prepared and reviewed by the executive director, deputy director and external cpa first. Then, once a draft is ready, read global management shares a copy of the draft with the board chair and the treasurer for draft approval. Once the draft is approved, and a final draft is prepared by the tax firm, read global management will share the final draft copy with the entire board before it is submitted to the irs.”

“Compensation for the top management official was reviewed by the chairman of the board. Comparable data was used in the compensation process and the process was documented. The last compensation review took place in february 2019. The executive director reviews and determines compensation for employees.”

“Governing documents and conflict of interest policy are not available for the general public. Financial statements are available for review on the organization website.”

“Read centers & programs - in 2020, read supported 3 independent local organizations (read nepal, read india, read bhutan) and their network of 112 read centers - 9 in bhutan, 67 in nepal, and 36 in india. With read global support, these 3 independent organizations were also able to offer programs on women's empowerment, literacy, economic empowerment and other lifechanging programs, as well as coordinate local responses to the covid crisis. This included distributing food rations to more than 11,000 people, providing routine vaccinations and pre-natal checks to 709 women and children while hospitals were overwhelmed with covid patients, reaching 38,700 people with information on how they could keep their family safe or get treatment if ill, and provided access to remote and in-person learning to more than 10,500 students.”

“Other services: program service expenses 110,946. Management and general expenses 57,279. Fundraising expenses 22,192. Total expenses 190,417.”

“This amendment is being prepared to change the allocation of functional expenses to match the audited financial statements and to correct the schedule a reporting. 1. Part ix, line 5 column a changed from $187,681 to $187,885; column c changed from $28,152 to $28,243; column d changed from $9,384 to $9,497. 2. Part ix, line 11c columns a and c changed from $39,559 to $39,560. 3. Part ix, line 13 column b changed from $167 to $168; column c changed from $12,486 to $12,482; column d changed from $585 to $584. 4. Part ix, line 14 columns a and c changed from $3,871 to $3,872. 5. Part ix, line 23 columns a and c changed from $4,450 to $4,451. 6. Part ix, line 25 column b changed from $622,459 to $622,460; column c changed from $150,237 to $150,187; column d changed from $32,878 to $32,927. Part vi, section c, line 20 the name of the person who possesses the organization's books and records has been removed as it changes from year to year. Schedule a, part i box 8 was inadvertantly checked. Box 7 is the corect box, and this has been updated on the amended return.”