Green Building Alliance

“Any committee, to the extent provided by an act of the board, shall have and may exercise all of the powers and authority of the board, except that no committee shall have any power or authority as to the following: (a) the filling of vacancies on the board. (b) the adoption, amendment, or repeal of these bylaws. (c) the amendment or repeal of any resolution of the board that by its terms is amendable or repealable only by the board. (d) action on matters committed by the bylaws or by an act of the board exclusively to another committee of the board.”

“The organization solicits both individual and corporate/nonprofit (non-voting) memberships as a source of income and to deepen the commitment to our organzation and its activities.”

“Committee members record action items they are individually repsonsible for and follow-up on those items through e-mail and phone conversations. All committee decisions are reported during regular, full board meetings and contemporaneously recorded in the board minutes.”

“The form 990 is provided electronically to the organization's executive director support and finance committees for review, after which a copy of the final 990 will be provided to the entire board of directors prior to its filing with the irs.”

“Signed conflict of interest statements disclosing any potential conflicts; self-reporting.”

“The executive committee serves as the compensation committee, which reviews the performance of and approves compensation for the executive director. The committee consults various 990s of other organizations and the decisions are documented.”

“Green building alliance makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to inquiring parties upon request.”

“The following individual serves as an honorary board member of the green building alliance with no voting rights: eric orient”

“Sustainable communities: gba seeks to multiply projects' impact by realizing the integrative efficiencies of neighborhood-scale development. Through 2020 and beyond, gba will explore how to best integrate community planning with transformative sustainability objectives, focusing on stakeholder engagement, community-scale infrastructure, and leadership development. Foundational frameworks can be found in leed for neighborhood development, ecodistricts, well community, and the living community challenge, with pittsburgh's p4 initiative and onepgh resilience planning grounding local efforts.”

“Enviro social capital: program ended in 2017. It was only intended to be temporary and ran as long as specific funding was available.”

“Contracted services: program service expenses 138,068. Management and general expenses 6,991. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 145,059. Temporary help: program service expenses 37,820. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 37,820.”

“The organization's financial statements are audited by an independent accounting firm. In addition, the fund's board assumes the responsibility for oversight of the audit of its financial statements and its selection of the independent accountant. This process has not changed from the prior year.”