Firefighters Support Foundation Inc

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“Barbara mroz vp-fin &comp wife of the former president”

“Copies of the form 990 were distributed to each board member prior to filing. A board meeting was the held to review the form 990 jointly and approve it.”

“A review of any possible infractions of the conflict of interest policy has been inserted into the agenda of each board meeting held.”

“YES”

“YES”

“Document are made available to the public upon request.”

“UPON REQUEST”

“The exempt purpose of the firefighters support foundation is to assist firefighters and rescue personnel perform their jobs effectively and safely, aid underfunded agencies, assist families of fallen firefighters in their greatest time of need and to help prevent fires and fire injuries through public awareness. We accomplish this mission through four program services areas. (1) training developed with leading experts and available nationwide free of charge to help increase the safety and effectiveness of firefighters and rescue personnel. (2) fire and ems equipment grant program provides cash grants for departments to purchase equipment to improve service personnel and citizen safety. (3) survivor financial grant program provides cash grants to family survivors of firefighters who have died in the line-of-duty. (4) public fire safety awareness to educate families about important steps they can take to prevent fires and improve their safety in the event of a fire.”

“Schedule g-part 1, section 3: ak,al,ar,az,ca,co,ct,de,fl,ga,id,il,in,ks,ky, la,ma,md,me,mi,mn,mo,ms,mt,nc,nd,ne,nh,nj,nm,nv,oh,ok,pa,ri,sc,sd,tn,tx,ut, va,vt,wa,wi,wv,wy”

“Firefighters support foundation distributed 1000 dvds for free at the 2014 jems (ems) conference, with the following 4 programs on it: -mass shootings: planning & response -mass casualty emergency care -active shooter response -when a child dies on a call firefighters support foundation distributed 1000 dvs for free at the fdic conference, with the following 4 programs on it: -active shooter response -hurricane planning for small and mid-size agencies -management principles for public service agencies -leadership for public service agencies firefighters support foundation produced seven video training programs: ics: rightsizing for each event address the misconceptions surrounding ics: it's too big, too complicated, too cumbersome, un-necessary, and so on. It demonstrates the practicality, advantages, and necessity of ics at almost every scene and event, from the smallest to the largest. It shows how ics can scale to any size, and demonstrates the benefits to all responding personnel of so doing. The program consists of a 40-minute video presentation and an accompanying 34-slide powerpoint. The presenter is august vernon, the well-known emergency management trainer. Response to gunfire-tactics when shot at or working at ballistic scenes sadly, fire fighters and other emergency responders are now more frequently fired upon in the course of their duties. They are also being called upon to respond to scenes with on-going ballistic threats such as active shooter events. This program addresses the types of gunfire events that first responders may find themselves at, what their actions should be to protect themselves, and what to do while waiting for swat to arrive on-scene. Also covered is integrating with an armed law enforcement escort team so as to attend to downed victims. The program consists of a 40-minute video presentation and an accompanying 48-slide powerpoint. The presenter is the commander of a very active state police swat team who has responded to hundreds of events where fire service and ems personnel had to work in concert with law enforcement. He has trained hundreds of fire fighters and other first responders to integrate with armed law enforcement escort teams. Where's the cavalry? Initial management of a structure fire with limited manpower address the problems of volunteer and combination departments that, of necessity, often have skeleton crews initially responding to fires. Whether these initial responders arrive with apparatus or not, there are useful tasks that they can perform until additional apparatus and personnel arrive. The program consists of a 30-minute video presentation and an accompanying 31-slide powerpoint. The program is presented by combination department chief scott alderman, a past president of the north carolina state firemen's association. Neural-based learning for fire fighters is a unique program, detailing for the first time several techniques based on advanced in neuro-science that can immediately enhance a fire fighters performance under extreme stress. The presenter is marcus wynne, the world's foremost training designer for high-stress occupations. He introduced john boyd's ooda loop to the law enforcement community, brought neuro-linguistic-programming into military combatives, and evolved a cutting edge training protocol that embeds stress inoculation within the context of accelerated learning. He is a military veteran of the us army's 82d airborne and a federal law enforcement veteran who served with the federal air marshal program. He's taught at fletc and hundreds of law enforcement and military academies; his work has been adopted at the national level in south africa, sweden, and norway. He continues his research in consultation with darpa, nasa, naval research and other cutting edge military research institutions here and abroad. This is the first time he has committed some of his material to video. Five techniques are demonstrated in real time in this 36-minute video prese”

“Advanced topics and mental wellness. Programs are developed and taught by academy-level instructors with significant experience in their fields. Our programs provide turnkey training for individuals and agencies. Our training programs are designed to be used by both individual service members and by agency trainers. They generally include a video and a powerpoint presentation. These programs provide turn-key training. Individuals can view the programs at their leisure, while agencies can use the powerpoint slides as distributed notes, run the video presentation, and pause the video to discuss the material. In this way, the training is consistent from session to session, trainer time is greatly reduced, and the training is completely documented. Training briefs address topics of current interest and can usually be reviewed and presented in under an hour. They are offered as downloadable documents in powerpoint of pdf format. There are seven training programs that have been introduced. We continued our strong relationship with fireengineering.com (ef.com), the "go-to" place for training information in the fire service. Fe.com hosts all of our training programs and promotes them on their home age and in their weekly email newsletter to subscribers. Additionally, each new program's availability was emailed to key fire trainers in all 50 states, many of whom re-sent the information to their private distribution lists. We also established a distribution relationship with jems.com, the 1 website for ems professionals (emts, paramedics, etc.) they now have a page dedicated to us and have descriptions of and links to our programs. In 2014, thousands of firefighters, fire trainers, ems, search and rescue, first responder, and emergency management personnel downloaded our programs. We confidently believe that the actual number of public safety personnel using the material was several times higher because (1) there is a pass-along rate for downloaded programs, and (2) this material is used for department-wide training sessions. In addition, to the exposure we received on jems.com and fireengineering.com, our press releases about new programs are picked up by several leading fire, ems, public safety, and police magazines and websites, as well as re-transmitted to industry mailing lists. Finally, as a testimonial to our programs' web presence, fsf was the number one google return when searching for "free firefighter training" for much of the year.”

“Campaign, the foundation for first responders and firefighters (frff). The financial assistance program assists the families of fallen firefighters by providing them with unrestricted cash grants. We especially look to make donations to funds established for the firefighter's children; however we may also give grants to spouses and other firefighters' loved ones who bear the burden of caring for the family of the fallen firefighter. We further select grant recipients by reviewing the official list of recently deceased firefighters. As a matter of policy, and on the advice of legal counsel, we do not disclose the names of the recipients in order to respectfully maintain their privacy.”