Collier Child Care Resources Inc

“Board will reveiw the return with the organizations's cpa prior to electronically filing with the irs.”

“No contract or transaction between cccr and one or more of its members, board of directors, or officers, or between the agency and any other organization in which one or more of its members, directors, or officers are members, directors or officers, or a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for reason, or solely because the member, director, or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the board or committee which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because his or their votes are counted for such purpose if: a. The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the board or the committee which authorizes the contract or transaction by a vote or consent sufficient for the purpose without counting the votes or consents of such interested directors: and, b.the contract or transaction is fair and reasonable as to the agency as of the time it is authorized by the board of directors or a committee. Common or interested board of directors members may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the board or a committee which authorizes, approves, or rectifies such contract or transaction.”

“The cccr board of directors conduct an evaluation of the executive director at the end of each fiscal year, usually in june. It is then discussed by the board of directors what percentage an increase should be given . Based on the evaluation, the board of directors decide on an increase in compensation, if approved. The base salary was determined by data collected by our collier county foundation of the average nonprofit executive director salary.”

“Documents are made available upon request and a copy of the 990 is available on guidestar.”

“Cccr strengthens and enriches the lives of underserved children and families in collier county through high quality early childhood education. 1 - provide scholarships for children ages birth to 5 years old to ensure access and school readiness. 2 - emphasize the arts and nature through experimental learning. 3 - encourage children's innate ability to develop cognitive, physical and social-emotional skills. 4 - engage families to assure their children's future success. Our vision is to inspire children's love for lifelong learning.”

“Organization uses a peo for payroll. Officer compensation is broken out on part ix for transparency purposes only. Little wonders, a cccr early childhood development center little wonders, cccr's newest center, is part of cccr's continuing expansion to meet the increasing demand for high-quality early childhood care and education in collier county. Little wonders provides high-quality early childhood care and education for up to 65 children ages one to five, and is located at emmanuel lutheran church, 777 mooring line drive in naples, florida. Over 85 percent of the children from working families served at this center are economically needy and receive sliding-scale scholarship assistance. Without this partial scholarship assistance for high quality early childhood care and learning, parents would lose their ability to work and provide for their families and the children would not be ready for kindergarten and beyond. Over 35,000 free healthy meals (breakfast, lunch and snacks) were served to children at little wonders in 2018. 100 percent of our children improved their cognitive, social and emotional developmental milestones as measured by pre/post scores. Little wonders achieved a kindergarten readiness rate of 77 percent, 24 points above the florida average of 53 percent. Child's path, a cccr early childhood development center child's path is in golden gate city, which is identified by many collier county nonprofit agencies as an area in acute need of high quality early childhood learning opportunities for children ages one to five. Over 80 percent of the children from working families at child's path are economically needy and receive partial scholarship assistance. Without this partial scholarship assistance for high quality early childhood care and learning, parents would lose their ability to work and provide for their families and the children would not be ready for kindergarten and beyond. 50,514 healthy meals (breakfast, lunch, snacks) were served free to children at child's path in 2018. 100 percent of our children improved their cognitive, social and emotional developmental milestones as measured by pre/post scores. Child's path achieved a kindergarten readiness rate of 75 percent, 22 points above the florida average of 53 percent. "a step up," cccr early childhood development centers collier child care resources operates two "a step up" early childhood development centers - one in golden gate high school and one in immokalee high school serving children age two weeks to five years old. These centers provide high quality early childhood care and education to the children of teen parents enrolled in the "teenagers as parents program" (tapp.) these teens can focus on graduating high school and plan a successful future knowing that their children are safe in a nurturing and high quality early childhood education program. During the 2018-2019 fiscal year, the program served an unduplicated cumulative total of 182 children. Even though 100 percent of these teen parents are economically needy, all seniors successfully graduated high school during the past year. Collier county also trusts cccr to provide early childhood education to the children of collier county public school system staff. 100 percent of students achieved gains in their cognitive, social and emotional skills and 98 percent were deemed "kindergarten ready," 45 points above the florida average of 53 percent.”

“Volunteers help the teachers at different centers, within the classrooms and on playgrounds. They also assist at fundraising events with various tasks. Volunteers devoted nearly 1,000 hours during the 2018-2019 fiscal year.”

“Little wonders in the 2018-2019 school year, little wonders served an unduplicated cumulative total of 86 children and provided over 80 percent of them from economically disadvantaged homes with sliding scale partial scholarship assistance. Cccr also served over 35,000 free healthy meals (breakfast, lunch, snacks) to the children. Because of the diversity of the children's backgrounds (ethnicity and socio-economic) a whole new group of children were introduced to the reggie emilia teaching methodology. 100 percent of the children achieved gains in their developmental milestones and 93 percent of the children ages 1 to 5 years were meeting/exceeding developmental expectations. 77 percent of the children were assessed as "kindergarten ready", 24 points above the florida average of 53 percent.”

“Professional development in 2018-2019 professional development was a key component of the cccr mission to become the leading authority and trusted resource for high quality early childhood education in collier county. Cccr offered two professional development symposia for 165 arly childhood educators to increase the quality of care given to collier county children. 100 percent of the 165 early learning professionals who attended the two professional development symposia reported that they learned new concepts and greatly enjoyed the symposia.”

“Professional fees 10,868 4,265 0 contract services 42,392 44,597 0 leased employee expense 1,587,663 28,843 0 total 1,640,923 77,705 0”

“Fundraising expense on part viii 57,719 in kind volunteer services 32,066 auction items -25,495 fundraising expense on part viii -57,719 auction items 25,495 total 32,066”