Tucson Values Teachers

“Form 990 is prepared by an independent cpa and provided to the executive director for review. Upon approval by the executive director, a copy is provided to all board members prior to filing.”

“The conflict of interest policy covers directors, officers, and members of committees with governing board delegated powers. In connection with any actual or possible conflict of interest, an interested person must disclose the existence of the financial interest and be given the opportunity to disclose all material facts to the board of directors. After disclosure and any discussion with the interested person, that person shall leave the board of directors' meeting and the remaining directors shall decide if a conflict of interest exists and vote on the transaction or arrangement involving the possible conflict of interest. The disinterested members of the board of directors shall determine whether the corporation can obtain with reasonable efforts a more advantageous transaction or arrangement from a person or entity that would not give rise to a conflict of interest. If that is not possible, a majority vote of the disinterested members of the board shall determine whether the transaction or arrangement is in the corporation's best interest, for its own benefit, and whether it is fair and reasonable. It shall then make its decision as to whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement. If the board of directors has reasonable cause to believe a director has failed to disclose actual or possible conflicts of interest, it shall inform the director of the basis for such belief and afford the director an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. If, after hearing the director's response and after making further investigation as warranted by the circumstances, the board of directors determines the director has failed to disclose an actual or possible conflict of interest, it shall take appropriate disciplinary and corrective action.”

“Tucson values teachers makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. In addition, form 990 is available online at www.guidestar.org.”

“Tucson values teachers (tvt) leads the region in respecting, rewarding and investing in teachers as a means of attracting and retaining the very best teacher workforce for southern arizona. Tvt's long-term goals and objectives are to create and ensure a stronger teacher workforce, which will result in better outcomes for students to assure they graduate career or college-ready. Our strategies to reach these goals include raising awareness about the central role teachers play in student achievement and the necessity of increased economic support for all teachers and public respect for the role teachers play in the region's economic and civic future. Tvt's organizational impact: we estimate that there are approximately 12,000 educators in southern arizona. The tucson values teachers database has over 11,500 teachers that have voluntarily opted in to our database. Tucson values teachers mission is to serve all teachers in southern arizona, including district, private and charter school teachers, from grades pre-k through 20. We realize that the quality of the teacher in front of the classroom is the most important factor in the success of any student. We use a simple equation to estimate the number of students/children that our teacher impact every school year, and the number of students impacted is approximately 310,500 across southern arizona. Tvt signature programs - tvt has seven signature programs that work to respect, reward, and invest in teachers by providing teachers with direct support in such areas as fully supplied classrooms, professional development, and community support. In addition, tvt programs serve to increase teacher job satisfaction to affect teacher attraction and retention. 2015 overview of tvt signature programs: teacher appreciation week - coinciding with national teacher appreciation week, tucson values teachers coordinates a week-long celebration of teachers from may 2-9, 2015. This year featured a robust lineup for teacher appreciation week, including a mayoral proclamation of teacher appreciation week for the city of tucson, mini-events for teachers, exclusive discounts in collaboration with business partners from our teacher discount card, a crowdsourcing campaign to boost the coming tucson supplies teachers annual supply drive, and awards that highlight community gratitude for educators. Professional development offered for teachers was rich and diverse, with workshops scheduled throughout the week provided in collaboration with partners that include: office of pima county school superintendent, arizona state museum, raytheon and math moves you, leadlocal, ua college of education, ua center for recruitment and retention of math teachers, ua science, arizona public media and more. Tucson supplies teachers - tvt launched our 7th annual supply drive, tucson supplies teachers, the largest community-wide supply drive in our region, with our community partners at pima federal credit union, walgreens, kvoa news 4 tucson, and the tucson association of realtors came together to evolve the tucson supplies teachers annual supply drive to include innovative solutions that streamline the collection and distribution of supplies, conserve financial and operational resources, and most importantly, better serve the needs of teachers. Rather than collect physical supplies, we raised funds from both business and community investments that we used to purchase and distribute $50 gift cards to educators across the region. Of those that registered for assistance, we were able to supply 35% with gift cards. The outpouring of gratitude from teachers was unprecedented. With this evolution, teachers can now obtain theexact supplies that they need for their classroom when they need them. And of course, a kindergarten teacher will need very different supplies than a high school engineering or biology teacher. With our partners at walgreens offering an extended discount on all school supplies each teacher could make their $50 g”

“Teacher excellence awards - presented monthly throughout 2015 in partnership with officemax/officedepot, kvoa news 4 tucson and kristi's kids, the teacher excellence award is presented to outstanding teachers who have been nominated by school leadership, colleagues, parents and students. The awards are presented to district, private, and charter school teachers throughout southern arizona and shine a spotlight on the extraordinary level of teaching that is happening in classrooms. Besides the revenue reported in this document, tucson values teachers has raised several hundred thousand dollars which flows directly to projects it supports, most notably the university of arizona college of education to support more than 50 teachers who participate in the multi-year teachers in industry program. In 2015, tvt cultivated a $250,000 investment from the t.r.brown family foundation in support of the teachers in industry program. In addition, tvt has orchestrated the business partnerships that match industry with teachers and provide paid summer work that brought $400,000 of income to teacher households. Because our model has been to arrange direct funding it is less obvious that tvt fundraises to support and manages a budget of nearly $900,000 per year and spends only about 5 percent of its money on administration and no program staff. Key in kind donations include over $48,000 from salc and around $36,000 from havas pr (design, production, marketing support).”

“Losses on uncollectible pledges -50,050.”