Augusta Warrior Project Inc

“The 990 is provided to the organization for review prior to filing and is reviewed by the full board.”

“The board members must disclose any conflicts annually. In the event of a conflict, that person will recuse themselves from all discussion and/or vote on the matter in question.”

“The independent executive committee reviews area salaries and compares to president and staff salaries, using the georgia center for nonprofits and the community foundation for the csra for comparability data. All discussions are documented.”

“The organization makes its financial statements, governing documents and conflicts of interest policy available to the public upon request.”

“Contract labor: program service expenses 77,432. Management and general expenses 85,018. Fundraising expenses 105,287. Total expenses 267,737.”

“Contribution to donor advised fund -930,000.”

“This process has not changed from the prior year.”

“Supportive services for veteran families (ssvf) program: forcesunited has been a sub-grantee of the csra economic opportunity authority (eoa) with the ssvf program since 2011 and was approved for its ninth consecutive grant year. The ssvf program is a national initiative of the department of veterans affairs with the goal of promoting housing stability among very low-income veteran families who are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless and to provide supportive services and limited financial assistance. Over the past eight years, our staff has assisted 1,049 veteran families with either prevention assistance or rapid rehousing assistance through this program, in addition to those not eligible and assisted each year through other resources. The ssvf program has been a vital part of forcesunited's success in keeping so many veterans and their families stably housed. South carolina serves program: in december 2016, forcesunited was approached by americaserves, a national initiative and network of organizations that work together to serve service members, veterans and their families, and was offered the lead in their scserves program in south carolina. The scserves program is designed to provide coordinated care with a range of comprehensive services to service members, veterans, and their families in thirteen counties across mid to southern south carolina. Throughout 2020, forcesunited worked diligently in the additional south carolina counties building a provider network to over 60 community partners to offer services and resources to service members, veterans, and their families in benefits, employment, housing, transportation, education, health and wellness, spiritual support, utilities, etc. The coordination center located in charleston, sc prides itself on its vigilant communications with provider organizations utilizing the unite us platform. The unite us network continues to improve veteran access to community-wide resources, allowing scserves and forcesunited to increase its outreach and ability to connect our warriors to appropriate services in a timely manner. Goodwill job connection (aiken): since 2013 when a veteran advocate was placed inside the aiken job connection, forcesunited goal has been to provide wholistic assistance to every veteran seeking their assistance. Having a veteran advocate inside the aiken job connection enhances the job search experience for veterans who utilize this facility. The forcesunited advocate is a generalist who offers support to veterans in several areas. Those areas include employment, va education benefits, veteran administration benefits navigation, and veteran administration housing screenings. Veterans are referred to this advocate using several different methods. These methods are the forcesunited intake line, the goodwill front desk staff, county veteran service organizations and self-referral walk-ins. The forcesunited advocate partners with several organizations to ensure the veterans who seek assistance receive quality care. These organizations include the aiken, edgefield, barnwell and mccormick veteran service offices. She also collaborates with the charlie norwood aiken county homeless veteran liaison. This liaison manages the 14 housing and urban development veterans affairs supportive housing (hudvash) vouchers awarded to aiken county. Alston wilkes and one80 place are other organizations which aid homeless veterans in aiken county and collaborate with forcesunited. The goodwill job connection in addition to the forcesunited employment director and the south carolina works veteran employment director are the resource referrals for unemployed veterans. Unemployed veterans 55 and older are also referred to the senior community service employment program coordinator. Another component of assistance offered to veterans through the aiken goodwill job connection is collaborative services. These services mainly consist of utility bill assistance. To enhance community awa”