Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

“The board of trustees delegates to the executive committee responsibility for management of the foundation when the board is not in session, consistent with any policies established by the board.”

“The foundation has indirectly, through pids, a related organization, contracted with the infectious diseases society of america (idsa), a 501(c)(6) organization, for the provision of management services. The exempt purposes of pids, pids foundation, and idsa are congruent: idsa's exempt purpose is to improve the health of individuals, communities, and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health, and facilitate prevention of infectious diseases. The exempt purpose of pids foundation is to enhance the health of infants, children, and adolescents by promoting excellence in diagnosis, management and prevention of infectious diseases through clinical care, education, and research.”

“All members of the foundation's board of trustees are appointed by the pediatric infectious diseases society, a related section 501(c)(6) membership association.”

“Amendments to the bylaws must be approved by the pediatric infectious diseases society, a related section 501(c)(6) membership association.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by the executive director and idsa's vp of finance before it is filed. A copy of the form 990 is then provided to each member of the board of trustees.”

“A copy of the conflict of interest policy is provided annually to each member of the governing body as well as to all officers; each is reminded to review the policy and to report any conflicts of interest. A designated board member is tasked with monitoring compliance with the policy. When a conflict arises, any conflicted board member abstains from voting on the matter.”

“The executive director and vp-finance are employed by the management company. Part of their duties include providing management services to pids foundation. The executive director of pids foundation is actually employed by idsa and contracted out to pids foundation at actual costs; thus, idsa's compensation process is used in regards to establishing the compensation of pids' executive director although the final compensation decision is made by the pids board of directors using comparability data, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. All new employees will receive an initial performance review within three to six months of the date of hire. The date of the initial performance review will be determined at the three month anniversary date, even if the actual review occurs later in the three to six month period. After that, employee performance will be reviewed at least once a year on or about a fixed review date. Performance evaluation is based on quality/quantity of work, technical competence, responsibility and judgment, initiative and adaptability, dependability, cooperation, attendance, punctuality, attitude, and quality of performance. All of these are principal factors in considering salary and any compensation adjustments.”

“The governing documents and financial statements are not generally made available to the public, but if requests for copies of these documents were received, the foundation would consider making them available to the requestor.”

“Vaccine handbook consulting: program service expenses 300,623. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 300,623. Other professional fees: program service expenses 6,073. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 6,073.”

“The audit oversight process has remained unchanged from the prior year.”