Porter Foundation

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Sep 26, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$7,198,896

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Over 1,000 acres of pine trees were protected. The Foundation is working with state forestry rangers to develop a youth teaching program about how to properly care for pine trees to both protect them and make them a sustainable source of revenue for creating minority and rural jobs without endangering the trees. The Board was unable to secure any steady sources of revenue for continuing efforts, but is working with a grant writer to develop some sources of revenue for the tree protection program as well as grants or conservation donations to protect more acreage where urban sprawl is endangering the trees.

Activity 3

Once steady agriculture revenue sources from the youth entrepreneurship lab were developed, the Foundation Board was able to set up a basic office. We began to develop a public relations effort to make people aware of the Foundations mission and goals, and to discuss long term plans. The independent directors were asked to check with similar foundations and develop a proposal for appropriate compensation for the Executive Director, who remains unpaid until such independent review is completed, debated by the Board, and eventually approved. The Board hopes to have several other related startup policy issues in place within the next 12 months related to appropriate infrastructure, contracts for services, committee structure, and similar administrative concerns.

Filer

EIN

27-0635624